{Some crazy-town stuff in here, but interesting and probably, mostly, correct. -Coté} Human writers may soon craft words primarily for AI rather than other humans, as large language models increasingly consume, interpret, and influence the world’s text. The essay explores the strange idea that “writing for AI” could grant influence over future superintelligence—or even a form of digital immortality. Summarized by AI. Source summarized: Baby Shoggoth Is Listening - The American Scholar.

People who maintain a more optimistic outlook tend to live longer and are more likely to reach “exceptional longevity,” defined as surviving to 85 or beyond. Drawing on data from over 69,000 women and 1,400 men, researchers found optimism’s benefits persisted even when accounting for health conditions, depression, and lifestyle habits. Summarized by AI. Source summarized: Optimism is associated with exceptional longevity in 2 epidemiologic cohorts of men and women | PNAS.

Developers are embracing AI coding tools to accelerate software creation, but the resulting security landscape is increasingly complex. While AI can detect threats and debug code, relying on it exclusively creates a recursive loop where the same AI that writes code may also incorrectly validate or approve it. Summarized by AI. Source summarized: Shifting Security Left with AI — Is It Truly AI-Assisted Security, or an Infinite Loop?. Key Points 49% of developers now use AI regularly for coding-related tasks, with 73% saving up to four hours per week.

Europe’s prosperity is stagnating because the EU has strayed from its core mission: a functioning internal market that drives economic growth and innovation. This manifesto argues for a renaissance built on enforcing market rules, enabling creative destruction, and cutting regulatory dead weight. Summarized by AI. Source summarized: The Constitution of Innovation: A New European Renaissance. Key Points Refocus the EU on core economic functions: customs union, internal market, eurozone monetary policy, and common trade policy.

AI-generated videos and images could be significantly “better” without current technological and content restrictions.

Legacy systems are creating measurable revenue drag, with 63% of surveyed companies citing efficiency losses. Early adopters of cloud-native infrastructure report 40% faster deployment cycles. Commissioned by Broadcom, based on June 2025 survey. 🔗 🤖 Forrester: Modernize or Fall Behind – Rethinking IT Infrastructure (October 2025) Citation: “Modernize Or Fall Behind: Rethinking IT Infrastructure For A Competitive Edge," Forrester, commissioned by Broadcom, n=216 surveys June, 2025, published October, 2025.

VMware announces updates to Tanzu Data Intelligence with performance and resilience improvements across Greenplum (now VCF 9 certified), Data Lake 2.0 (adds Spark support), GemFire 10.2, Postgres (TimescaleDB), Valkey, and RabbitMQ 4.2 (distributed delayed messaging). 🔗 🤖 Tanzu Data Intelligence Gets Smarter with New Updates and Enhancements - Tanzu

Grok’s AI video generation is like lazy Sora. All you have to do is upload a picture and it does the rest. You can then refine it through chat. Some of these are the first versions, no input from me. They are mostly pictures from the internet. There are some ones that were still images made in ChatGPT. I think Grok is pretty good at this kind of thing.

I’m fascinated with Tyler Cowen. Here is Claude Sonnet 4.5’s deep research on his Tylerisms, I asked: Tyler Cowen has many maxims, principles, and aphorisms. One is “Context is that which is scarce” another is “all food is ethnic food” (from his ethnic food website). Sometimes his blog posts bring with “those new service sector jobs.” He often asks the same questions in podcasts (there are transcript of all his Conversations with Tyler episodes), often about someone’s “production function,” how they work.