🔥 Contradictions
Sept. 15, 2025 | From deepfakes to education, AI's dual role in society.
🐾 IN TODAY'S WILD
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+ This week’s important news 🗞️ “Oracle's recent earnings report, despite narrowly missing revenue and earnings per share forecasts, sent shockwaves through the market, causing its stock to surge 36% in a single day—its biggest one-day jump since 1992. The stunning reaction was not due to current results but to an unprecedented series of forward-looking projections that repositioned the company as a central player in the AI infrastructure boom.” Continue reading below.
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Ralph Lauren is embracing AI to enhance the customer shopping experience. This comes as an entrepreneur who co-founded an AI startup to cheat on homework is now criticizing AI for "destroying education." At the same time, the FBI reports that complaints about deepfake AI videos have more than doubled this year.
In other news, xAI has made a major change to Grok, cutting about 500 AI tutors to focus on hiring domain experts. Anthropic has launched a new "memory" feature in its Claude AI for Team and Enterprise users, and the Cursor platform has upgraded its inline code suggestion system. Finally, the emergence of an AI-generated influencer ad is now testing consumer sentiment.
🦾 AI daily pulse
Ralph Lauren has entered the AI age
Twenty-five years after it became one of the first luxury brands to sell online, Ralph Lauren’s chief branding and innovation officer is preparing for the latest shifts in how customers want to shop. [LINK]
CEO co created an AI startup to cheat on homework, complains that AI is destroying education
"I am accelerating the collapse of a doomed industry." Months after debuting Cluely, the "undetectable AI that thinks for you," 21-year-old tech entrepreneur Chungin "Roy" Lee is decrying the dismal state of education due to AI. [LINK]Complaints about deepfake AI videos more than doubled this year, FBI says. Here are warnings from experts. [LINK]
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⚡️ Top trends
Why SaaS pricing pages fail [LINK]
xAI cuts ~500 generalist AI tutors (its largest data team) to make room for domain-experts in STEM, medicine, finance & safety. Big pivot for Grok. [LINK]
💻 Top techies
Cursor upgrades its inline code suggestion system [LINK]
Anthropic launches memory in Claude for Team and Enterprise [LINK]
🔮 What else
An AI-generated influencer ad is the latest test of consumer sentiment [LINK]
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🗞️ In the news “The Oracle projections that shocked Wall Street”
Oracle's recent earnings report, despite narrowly missing revenue and earnings per share forecasts, sent shockwaves through the market, causing its stock to surge 36% in a single day—its biggest one-day jump since 1992.
The stunning reaction was not due to current results but to an unprecedented series of forward-looking projections that repositioned the company as a central player in the AI infrastructure boom.