AI BRIEFING · 2025-10-29

AI Briefing — October 29, 2025

The 10 most important AI stories of October 29, 2025, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.

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Progress to Continual Learning AI

Next Big Future AI ↗

2025 saw a tripling of continual learning LLM papers according to arXiv trends. This is driven by foundation model scale and multimodal extensions. However, no flagship AI released models (GPT-5, Grok 4 etc…) fully integrate production-grade continual learning yet. There are expected architectures like routers and sparse finetuning signal imminent hybrids. There has been no ...Read more

02

Finding return on AI investments across industries

MIT Tech Review ↗

The market is officially three years post ChatGPT and many of the pundit bylines have shifted to using terms like “bubble” to suggest reasons behind generative AI not realizing material returns outside a handful of technology suppliers. In September, the MIT NANDA report made waves because the soundbite every author and influencer picked up on…

04

Lucid jumps on the ‘privately owned’ autonomous vehicle bandwagon

The Verge ↗

Lucid says it will eventually sell “privately owned” autonomous vehicles with the help of Nvidia’s artificial intelligence technology. The company is the latest to declare its intention to sell Level 4 autonomous vehicles to its customers, despite a range of theoretical and logistical challenges standing in the way. Lucid’s autonomous vehicles — which do not exist […]

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Reduced AI Acceptance After the Generative AI Boom: Evidence From a Two-Wave Survey Study

arXiv ↗

The rapid adoption of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technologies has led many organizations to integrate AI into their products and services, often without considering user preferences. Yet, public attitudes toward AI use, especially in impactful decision-making scenarios, are underexplored. Using a large-scale two-wave survey study (n_wave1=1514, n_wave2=1488) representative of the Swiss population, we examine shifts in public attitudes toward AI before and after the launch of Chat...

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