Happy Halloween 🎃 Tonight’s your once-a-year pass to abandon adulthood, raid the candy stash, and become whoever or whatever you want. And rumor has it you’ll spot more than a few chatbot costumes roaming around. According to Google Trends, searches for “ChatGPT costume” are off the charts this year. So if you’re dressing as everyone’s favorite AI, be prepared to politely answer questionable prompts all night.
⚠️ AI agents tried freelance work and failed spectacularly. Researchers from Scale AI and the Center for AI Safety gave leading AI agents real freelance tasks from graphic design and video editing to coding. The results were hilariously bad: even the best AI completed less than 3% of the work, earning just $1,810 out of a potential $143,991. Despite widespread hype about AI replacing jobs, the reality is these models still struggle with complex, multi-step tasks and basically have the attention span of a goldfish.
🦠 OpenAI just released Aardvark to hunt code vulnerabilities. This autonomous security agent continuously scans software, identifies which bugs are actually exploitable, and suggests automatic fixes. In tests, it caught 92% of known issues and spotted critical flaws in popular codebases. OpenAI plans to offer free scans for select open source projects, hoping to give devs a fighting chance against hackers. Maybe one day breaches will be shocking headlines again instead of predictable budget line items.
🎧 The future of AI generated music is now officially artist approved. Universal Music Group, the label behind Taylor Swift and Drake, settled a lawsuit with AI music startup Udio, forcing it to immediately stop letting users download gen AI tracks. Udio users erupted, accusing UMG of stomping out creative freedom. But the a16z backed startup isn’t finished yet. The two companies are teaming up to relaunch a fully legit AI music platform, complete with licensing and royalties. Let’s hope they pay better than Spotify.
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🕊️ Palantir CTO says AI doomers just need religion. Shyam Sankar says that people who fear an AI apocalypse are spiritually empty, filling their hearts with anxiety instead of God. Pretty bold coming from a deep state surveillance giant whose tech gives people a genuine reason to pray. Guess the Antichrist prefers his victims calm, spiritual, and under constant observation.
🧪 Where are all the miracle AI drugs? Big pharma has promised AI powered medicines for years, and now Lilly says it’s ready to deliver. They’re about to unleash the world’s most powerful AI SuperPOD built specifically for drug discovery. With 1,016 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs crunching 9 quintillion calculations per second, Lilly claims drug discoveries that previously took years could soon take weeks. The price tag? A cool $50 billion, including a shiny new $4.5B AI lab. Lilly’s AI gamble will either deliver a healthcare revolution or become the industry’s most expensive reality check.
😵💫 An MIT analysis suggests Silicon Valley’s biggest bet might be pure delusion. The tech world has convinced itself that machines capable of human-level thinking are inevitable. CEOs speak about AGI with almost religious awe, promising everything from space colonies and endless prosperity to extinction-level doom. Yet there’s still zero proof it’s even possible. Billions of dollars and critical decisions now depend more on faith than evidence. Believers position themselves as visionaries holding secret truths, dismissing skeptics as simply unable to see what’s obvious. Who needs evidence when you’ve got billions and blind faith?
fun stats
number of times Tesla Cybertruck has been recalled since being introduced two years ago 🛠️ Tesla accounted for 21% of all US vehicle recalls in 2024, despite having a market share of less than 5%. Maybe they should come with duct tape?
[Fortune]