Nov 25, 2025 4 min read Daily Rundown

🛎️ Altman Admits Defeat

Plus: IRS Cuts 25% of Staff, Insurers Quit on AI Risk

Good Morning, AI Enthusiasts!

The fast are stumbling, the slow and deliberate are closing in, and the systems built to absorb uncertainty are beginning to blink.

COMPETITION

Sam Altman Admitted Google Turns the Tables on OpenAI

📌 What’s happening: After months of stalled launches and confusing pivots, OpenAI’s internal memo finally shows Sam Altman admits what the industry already sensed — Google has pulled ahead. Gemini 3 Pro and Nano Banana Pro didn’t just close the gap, they flipped the race. While OpenAI stumbled through product delays and scattered strategy, Google quietly built a coherent AI empire: stronger models, cleaner pretraining pipelines, and direct distribution through Search, YouTube, and Android.

🧠 How this hits reality: OpenAI’s chaos came with a cost. It burned momentum chasing new narratives — from ChatGPT features that landed flat to moonshot AGI rhetoric few can measure. Google, by contrast, executed. It fused its compute stack, model research, and global platforms into one self-reinforcing loop. The result is structural dominance, not just a hot release cycle. And the lesson stings: no company, not even OpenAI, keeps the lead forever. In AI, the minute you slow down, your rival becomes the benchmark.

🛎️ Key takeaway: Innovation doesn’t reward the first mover — it rewards whoever keeps moving.

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LABOR

IRS Cuts 25% of Staff, Calls in Salesforce AI to Fill the Silence

📌 What’s happening: After firing a quarter of its workforce under Trump’s “small government” push, the IRS is rolling out Salesforce’s Agentforce across legal, advocacy, and appeals divisions. The system won’t decide cases or release funds — it screens, drafts, and routes taxpayer requests for human review. Officially, the AI is here to “boost efficiency.” Unofficially, it’s here because the people who used to do the work aren’t coming back.

🧠 How this hits reality: This is the first federal test of AI as a structural substitute for labor, not just a tool. Salesforce now provides the scaffolding for an agency hollowed out by cuts — a digital façade of continuity. The rhetoric says modernization; the reality looks like denial. Fewer humans, same workload, new mask.

🛎️ Key takeaway: The IRS didn’t replace jobs with AI to move faster — it did it to pretend nothing’s missing.

SAFETY

Insurers Quit on AI Risk, Leaving Regulators as the Only Safety Net

📌 What’s happening: Major insurers including AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley have asked U.S. regulators to exclude AI-related liabilities from corporate insurance policies. The reason is simple but grim: AI systems act too fast, scale too wide, and fail too unpredictably. After Google’s AI Overview falsely accused a company of crimes and Air Canada’s chatbot fabricated discounts, underwriters no longer see “black box outputs” as an insurable risk — they see them as systemic and uncontainable contagion.

🧠 How this hits reality: The industry’s retreat exposes a deeper imbalance that AI is moving at network speed, while law still moves at committee speed. When risk modeling fails, regulation becomes the only remaining form of insurance. By stepping back, insurers are effectively forcing policymakers forward, signaling that without legal guardrails, the next systemic AI failure could bankrupt both sides.

🛎️ Key takeaway: Insurance is bailing out of AI, because in this new economy, only regulation can still underwrite reality.

QUICK HITS

Momentic raised $15M to use AI to streamline large-scale software testing as it expands its product amid rising competition from foundation models.
Ubisoft unveiled a new FPS, Teammates, built around voice-controlled AI squadmates as its latest bet on generative AI after past tech misfires like NFTs.
AI safety group DEXAI found that disguising harmful prompts as poetry can bypass the safeguards of nearly all AI models.
Facing mounting lawsuits, Roblox will require AI-verified selfies or IDs for age checks and restrict chat to users within similar age groups.
OpenAI safety lead Andrea Vallone is leaving as the company faces mounting scrutiny over ChatGPT’s handling of distressed users.

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