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AI Journal 188th Edition
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AI Journal
November 28, 2025
Todays Highlights
AI Safety's Founder Rebellion: Time to Dethrone Researchers! AI Safety's founder crisis is exploding: Status games crush builders while researchers feast, bottlenecking our shot at 10x scaling against AGI doom. Elevate chaos-makers founding orgs NOW—before P(doom) skyrockets! Dive into LessWrong's fiery debate and join the uprising. Founders, your era begins! MIT’s Iceberg Index Reveals Hidden AI Job Impact MIT’s Iceberg Index study shows AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. jobs, exposing $1.2 trillion in wages across sectors like finance and healthcare. The simulation maps skills and occupations nationwide, helping policymakers test workforce strategies and understand where AI disruption and retraining needs may emerge at state and local levels. DeepSeekMath-V2 Sets New Benchmark in AI Mathematics DeepSeek has launched DeepSeekMath-V2, an open-weight AI model that matches International Math Olympiad gold-level performance by solving 5 of 6 IMO 2025 problems. The model excels in theorem-proof reasoning and self-verification, outperforming humans on major math contests and advancing open, high-level mathematical AI. |  AI Suspicions in ICLR Peer Review Process Researchers suspect widespread AI use in ICLR 2026 peer reviews after receiving verbose, vague feedback with errors and hallucinated citations. Pangram Labs’ analysis flagged over 20% of reviews and some manuscripts as AI-generated, prompting organizers to evaluate policy breaches and restore trust in the conference process. SoftBank Shares Rebound as AI Market Worries Ease SoftBank shares climbed nearly 4% after easing concerns of an AI stock bubble. The recovery follows a sharp decline tied to competition fears and rising AI valuations. SoftBank’s heavy OpenAI investment, strong profits, and semiconductor sector gains continue to drive investor confidence. |
AI FUNDING
Pype AI raised $1.2M in a pre-seed round led by Kalaari Capital to advance its AI voice-agent platform for automating patient communication and expand into the US healthcare market, enhancing appointment management, treatment support, and continuous assistance. Link
Elon Musk’s xAI is set to raise $15 billion at a $230 billion valuation, reflecting surging investor demand for AI. The funds will support GPU infrastructure as competition intensifies among firms building large language models and AI products. Link
AI-driven shopping platform Onton raised $7.5M to expand beyond furniture into apparel. The startup’s neuro-symbolic AI improves product search accuracy, reduces decision time, boosts conversions, and enables users to visualize purchases through images and generated room setups, fueling rapid user growth. Link
INTERESTING POSTS
 ADaSci launches a five-day Agentic AI Bootcamp for leaders to build autonomous AI skills, master multi-agent systems, and earn certification, with workshops, hands-on projects, and expert-led sessions starting December 8, 2025. |  Google Antigravity is a new agentic development platform that lets autonomous AI agents plan, execute, and verify complex coding tasks, enabling developers to work at a higher, task-focused level across tools. |
 Alibaba’s Qwen AI app hit 10 million downloads in a week, challenging subscription-based AI models with a free, ecosystem-integrated approach that accelerates enterprise adoption and intensifies global competitive pressure in AI deployment strategies. |  OpenAI warned API users of a data breach at former analytics provider Mixpanel, exposing profile details like emails and IDs. OpenAI ended the partnership, is notifying affected users, and advises vigilance against phishing. |
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AI TOOLS
Lindy is a no-code platform for creating AI agents that automate business tasks using natural language instructions, thousands of app integrations, templates, voice agents, and centralized management for secure, team-ready workflows.
RTILA is a local-first AI automation studio enabling advanced web scraping, OCR, and data enrichment. It runs Llama 3.2 locally, supports executable automation apps, human-like browsing, and secure, API-free processing.
Kling AI generate realistic videos from text or images with precise motion controls, strong character consistency, and camera tools, making it a powerful option for filmmakers and creators seeking professional, usable AI-generated footage.
That’s a wrap for this week’s AI insights! Stay curious, stay informed, and don’t forget next Friday brings more breakthroughs your way
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