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August 26, 2025 | The future of work, creativity, and discover

Aug 26, 2025

🐾 IN TODAY'S WILD

Researchers are exploring the use of AI for scientific coding, but they're concerned about prompt effectiveness and the trustworthiness of results. A new study suggests AI's creativity is an innate byproduct of its architecture.

While OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, sees the AI era as a great time for a career, many entry-level workers fear job displacement. This social tension is shown in the criticism of an AI-generated crowd in a Will Smith video and in AI's use to help identify a body in the desert.

On the tech side, ElevenLabs released a new API for expressive text-to-speech, and Hugging Face launched a tool for coding and analysis in notebooks.

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🦾 AI daily pulse

Using generative AI for scientific coding
Coding often involves time-consuming and repetitive tasks. Researchers are interested in using large language models (LLMs) to save time on such work. But how hard is it to create effective prompts? Which LLMs work best? Can the results be trusted, or is human input still needed? Do LLMs actually improve productivity in software development? [LINK]
The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity
Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture. [LINK]
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: The AI era is ‘probably the most exciting time to be starting out one’s career, maybe ever’
Workers in the U.S., especially those seeking entry-level jobs, are increasingly concerned that new jobs could dry up as more employers embrace artificial intelligence. [LINK]

⚡️ Top trends

Fans criticise Will Smith for AI-generated crowd in tour video [LINK]
AI helps ID body of man found in desert near Tucson [LINK]

💻 Top techies

ElevenLabs launches v3 (alpha) API for expressive text-to-speech [LINK]
Hugging Face releases Jupyter Agent 2 for in-notebook coding and analysis [LINK]