News Briefs, Aug. 27-28, 2025

News from the bleeding edge of science and technology. Today, More GenAI Risks and Opportunities.

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News from The Rebooting
AI’s trough of disillusionment
Aug. 28, 2025 — .The parallels between the early internet and the current AI mania are inexact but directionally similar. Booms generally lead to a flood of capital, some of which  is inevitably misallocated, and infrastructure investments that are excessive. There is always a lag, unless the boom is purely speculative like tulipmania in the 1630s or Bored Apes in ZIRP….
The hyperventilation on podcasts about covering Spain with solar panels to power data centers is reliably escalated to going direct: put them near the sun and the data centers in space. Duh….
AI doomerism is a reliable marketing strategy. A technology so powerful it will lead to 15 years of dystopia starting in 2027 is a good entree to selling into the enterprise.

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News from the Wall St. Journal
(Carolyn’s comment: Glass half full) Even Nvidia Has Speed Limits
 
Aug 28, 2025 – Strong AI chip sales come up a bit short for market’s only $4 trillion company. Nvidia’s (NVDA -0.79%) decrease; “new normal” doesn’t look that bad. But in a market awash in waves of AI hype, even the industry’s biggest ship can be jostled.
The company’s fiscal second-quarter report marked another period of record revenue and operating profit, with sales surging 56% from a year earlier in the period ended in July.

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News from Bloomberg
(Carolyn’s comment: Glass half empty) Nvidia Forecasts Decelerating Growth After Two-Year AI Boom
Aug 28, 2025 — Nvidia Corp., the world’s most valuable company, gave a tepid revenue forecast for the current period, signaling that growth is decelerating after a staggering two-year boom in artificial intelligence spending.

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News from Investopedia
Skip the Computer Science Degree—Why Some Software Engineers Aren’t in High Demand Anymore
August 27, 2025 — Unemployment rates for computer science and computer engineering majors are currently among the highest for all majors, at 6.1% and 7.5%, respectively.

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News from Anthropic
Threat Intelligence Report: August 2025

Aug. 27, 2025 — Today we are sharing insights about a sophisticated cybercriminal
operation (tracked as GTG-2002) we recently disrupted that represents
a new evolution in how cyber threat actors leverage AI—using coding
agents to actively execute operations on victim networks, known as “vibe
hacking”.
A cybercriminal used Claude Code to conduct a scaled data extortion
operation across multiple international targets in a short timeframe ________________________

News frrom Axios 
AI-driven private schools are popping up around the U.S., from North Carolina to Florida

Aug 27, 2025 – An AI-driven private school that teaches core subjects for just two hours a day is nearly doubling its U.S. footprint, adding eight new campuses from California to North Carolina to Puerto Rico.
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