Weekly AI News - Oct. 17, 2025

This week on the show, the hosts dive into the economic impacts of AI, starting with Wall Street sounding the alarm on a potential market bubble. They also cover the rapid replacement of call center workers in India with AI chatbots. Shifting to new products, they discuss Anthropic's release of Haiku 4.5, a powerful new free model, and Claude Skills, a new customization feature. Google's NotebookLM also gets an upgrade with the Nano Banana image model for its video summaries. The conversation then turns to public and policy issues, with a global Pew Research survey showing more public concern than excitement about AI. The hosts also touch on Big Tech's push to get AI into classrooms by funding teacher training. Finally, they look at the bigger picture, with China's internal city rivalry fueling its chip battle with the US, Microsoft rewriting Windows 11 around AI, and an essay that calls for balancing technological optimism with appropriate fear. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.