#32 The Weekend Download – Catching Up on What Matters
Essential insights you need to stay ahead
📩 Issue #32 – 27/09/2025
⚡ Quick Hits – What You Need to Know
☀️ Start your day with AI
OpenAI pushes its new Pulse app as the morning ritual for personalised updates.
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🎨 Google’s Mixboard
The company launches an AI-powered mood board app to instantly generate design collages.
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🚙 Waymo goes corporate
The self-driving car company expands from robotaxis into executive and business travel.
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📊 Messy data, meet AI
Google makes real-world data easier to use in training pipelines.
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🔥 Top Insights
🧠 AGI benchmark launched
A new standard tries to measure progress toward general intelligence, stirring debate.
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💼 GPT-5 hits human-level jobs
OpenAI says its model matches people across a wide range of professional tasks.
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📺 YouTube Kids ads
A new study questions how much advertising children actually recall on YouTube Kids.
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📊 Movements to Watch
📉 AI adoption soars in tech
Google says 90% of tech workers now use AI on the job, up from just 14% a year ago.
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🤖 China leads in factory robots
Chinese factories added nearly 300,000 robots last year, more than the rest of the world combined, bringing the total to over two million. U.S. factories added just 34,000.
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💡 Something to Think About
🌳 Singapore obsessed with shade
The city is redesigning public spaces to fight extreme heat with shade.
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♻️ The obsolete computer
A campaign takes aim at Big Tech’s throwaway culture and built-in obsolescence.
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⌚ Teens go analog
School phone bans are driving students back to wristwatches.
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❤️ AI dating fatigue
Meta tests chatbots to help people find matches as swiping burnout grows.
Read More (The Verge)
🌀 Offbeat & Unexpected
🍸 Sit at the Bar September
Influencer Laurie Cooper’s viral campaign urges singles to ditch dating apps and meet IRL at the bar – restaurants are embracing it, and so are the crowds.
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🎉 Student loan freedom parties
Borrowers are celebrating paying off their student loans with parties big and small, marking financial independence as a milestone worth sharing with community.
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🏪 Seoul’s warm-hearted stores
The city has opened “warm-hearted convenience stores” serving free ramen and community, tackling loneliness among youth and the elderly.
Read More (BBC)