AI Wrap-Up: October 2, 2025

• Meta’s shoulder surfin your convos.
   Starting Dec 16, every time you chat with Meta’s AI, your words and tone will feed into its ad engine — no opt‑out if you use it.

• OpenAI goes cinematic.
   Meet Sora 2, it wants to change the game. Video + sound + full control.

  DeepSeek slides in cheap.
  New “intermediate” model V3.2‑Exp drops with sparse attention tech and cuts its API cost by 50%. War over compute priced.

• Meta racing to salvage Llama’s edge.
   Llama’s back! Now it’s go big with “4.X / 4.5” before year’s end under Meta Superintelligence Labs.

• Zhipu dials back the hype.
  Superintelligence by 2030?  Nah, not yet, fam. CEO says don’t hold your breath. ASI still too vague an enemy to call.

• AI plumbing gets heavy.
  The data center switches market for AI workloads is forecast to grow from $4B to $19B by 2030. The infrastructure wars quietly escalate while we sleep.

• AI isn’t taking jobs like y’all thought.
   Yale study says AI hasn’t gutted the U.S. labor market yet. Disruption’s idle.

 

Author Bio:

Justin Anderson is a Multipassionate Strategist and founder of Anderson Blackstar Enterprises, the force behind Madly Multipassionate and Anderson Blackstar Media. He builds brands, stories, and systems that blend truth, power, and strategy.