In today’s era of AI Agents, you can generate your own summaries of top news in seconds. In the 30-second video below, I demonstrate how I use ChatGPT’s AI agent capabilities to pull and summarize the latest technology news from Reddit. All I did was record the video. The agent found the relevant links, read the articles, and summarized them for us. You can see the final result at the end of this newsletter.
In other words, you might not even need this newsletter anymore. But there’s a catch — there’s still one thing AI can’t replace: you actually consuming the content. Summaries are just the appetizer; the real value comes from engaging with the full story. And in some cases, like Economic Times (very popular newspaper in India), the “full story” itself may have errors introduced by AI.
Why this Indian newsroom AI story scandal should terrify readers
An Indian media outlet failed Journalism 101 by running an AI-generated story on a fake video with a fabricated expert quote.
Except, of course, that she didn’t. As the real Nina Jankowicz pointed out on Bluesky a day after it was published, she never spoke to ET. The quote was almost certainly a pure hallucination, the kind of plausible-sounding bullshit that large language models – rather than journalists – produce when they need to smoothly fill a gap.
An updated version of the article no longer has this quote, a correction or an apology but the internet never forgets.
Other news:
GPT-5 is here As per OpenAI: “Our smartest, fastest, and most useful model yet, with thinking built in. Available to everyone.”
Anthropic cuts off OpenAI’s access to its Claude models
College students can get Google AI Pro for free, as company launches new guided learning mode Starting today, students 18 years or older can sign up for one whole year of Google's AI Pro plan for no cost.
Elon Musk says X plans to introduce ads in Grok’s responses
Below is the outcome of the AI agent mentioned earlier:
Worked for 11 minutes
The top posts on r/technology right now touch on politics, AI and labour economics, government control of research and the misuse of cutting‑edge tech:
Apple’s golden gift to Donald Trump and $100 billion pledge – During a White House event about Apple’s US manufacturing plans, CEO Tim Cook presented President Donald Trump with a one‑of‑a‑kind Corning glass disc set in a 24‑karat gold base, engraved with Trump’s name, Cook’s signature, “Made in USA” and the year 2025theverge.com. Cook said the piece, designed by a former Marine, was “unique.” The ceremony included a pledge of an extra $100 billion for US manufacturing; by committing to make more components domestically, Apple can avoid tariffs the Trump administration plans on imposing on imported semiconductors and other goodsadvocate.com. Critics argue that Cook “bent the knee” because Apple could face over a billion dollars in tariffs if it keeps outsourcingadvocate.com.
🔗 Advocate: Tim Cook bends the knee to Donald TrumpUS senators’ BEARD Act aims to block foreign pirate sites – The Verge reports on the Block Bad Electronic Art and Recording Distributors (Block BEARD) Act. Introduced by Senators Thom Tillis, Chris Coons, Marsha Blackburn and Adam Schiff, the bill would let copyright holders ask a federal court to label a website a “foreign piracy site” and order Internet service providers to block accesstheverge.com. The court would weigh whether the site is “primarily designed” for infringementtheverge.com. The Electronic Frontier Foundation warns that site‑blocking laws are dangerous and often ineffective, since blocking one IP address can disrupt many unrelated sites and VPNs make blocks easy to bypasstheverge.com. Supporters argue the bill is needed to protect creators and consumers from overseas copyright violatorstheverge.com.
🔗 The Verge: Senators try to force ISPs to block foreign pirate sitesGoldman Sachs economist: Gen Z tech workers hit hard by AI – An analysis cited by Entrepreneur shows that since the beginning of 2024, unemployment among 20‑ to 30‑year‑old tech workers has increased by nearly three percentage points, more than four times the overall US unemployment increaseentrepreneur.com. Goldman Sachs projects AI will displace six to seven percent of US workers over the next decade, but Chief Economist Jan Hatzius believes the overall unemployment rate will rise only about 0.5 percentage points as workers shift to other industriesentrepreneur.com. AI‑related layoffs have already cut more than 27 000 jobs since 2023entrepreneur.com. Tech leaders such as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warn that AI could eliminate many entry‑level white‑collar jobsentrepreneur.com.
🔗 Entrepreneur: Is AI stealing jobs from young workers?Executive order politicizes federal research grants – Ars Technica reports that a new Trump administration executive order requires every announcement of federal funding opportunities to be reviewed by the head of the agency or a political appointeearstechnica.com. All individual grant awards must “demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities,” and agencies must formalize procedures to cancel previously awarded grants at any timearstechnica.com. Until these procedures are in place, agencies are barred from starting new funding programsarstechnica.com. Critics say this order ends the 70‑year system in which scientific experts, not politicians, decide how US research funding is allocated, potentially chilling politically sensitive researcharstechnica.com.
🔗 Ars Technica: New executive order puts all grants under political controlGrok’s “spicy” mode generates celebrity deepfakes – Jess Weatherbed of The Verge tested xAI’s Grok Imagine app and found that its “spicy” preset cheerfully generates NSFW content and celebrity deepfakes. Unlike Google’s Veo or OpenAI’s Sora, which block nude or non‑consensual images, Grok Imagine produced fully uncensored topless videos of Taylor Swift without even prompting for nudity. The iOS app offers four presets (“Custom,” “Normal,” “Fun” and “Spicy”) and only asks users to enter their birth year once, a check that is easy to bypass. While the image generator refuses to produce explicit nudes on request, the “spicy” preset often turns suggestive images into videos where characters rip off clothing, and the app can even create photorealistic images of children (though it does not animate them provocatively). xAI’s acceptable‑use policy forbids pornographic deepfakes, yet Grok Imagine appears to ignore its own rules, and more than 34 million images have already been generated since launch.
🔗 The Verge: Grok’s “spicy” video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes
These posts reflect the intersection of technology, policy and ethics—highlighting political maneuvers over manufacturing and research, the labour impacts of AI and the potential misuse of generative tools.