Money flood - insane revenue and valuation growth, AI impacting every industry, Open AI and Microsoft deal, new time compute records are changing the game, the first AI government member, and more important AI news for the week ending on September 12 2025
Is AI on the verge of world domination… or an economic meltdown?
This week’s AI headlines weren’t about shiny new model releases and that’s a good thing. It gave us time to zoom out and examine the billion-dollar chess game shaping our future.
From OpenAI’s $115B spend-fest to the first AI government cabinet member, and from Replit’s code-writing agents to copyright lawsuits with a twist — this episode is a crash course in just how *wild* and *wide* AI's reach has become.
Here’s your witty but grounded executive summary of the week’s most impactful AI news — handpicked and broken down by your host, Isar Meitis, with direct implications for how business leaders should think, adapt, and move.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- OpenAI’s capital-intensive moonshot and why it may still not be profitable in 2030
- Microsoft’s unexpected pivot: From exclusive OpenAI integration to paying AWS for Claude
- The first AI cabinet member in Albania here’s why it might be brilliant (or backfire)
- AI-made movies & TV are no longer a fantasy, OpenAI is backing a full-length feature
- Funding frenzy decoded: Databricks, Replit, Perplexity, and others are raising billions
- "Thinking" AI that works for hours: How new models are pushing past past limitations
- 5,000 AI podcasts a week for \$1 each?! The scary-fascinating rise of mass-produced audio
- FTC probes AI’s influence on kids and what it means for regulation & trust
- AI-powered AR glasses from Amazon — coming to delivery drivers and consumers near you
- Duke gives GPT-4o to all students what this means for the future of higher education
- Why Apple is strangely silent on AI this year, and what it could cost them
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