Oct 20, 2025 6 min read Daily Rundown

🛎️ Grok Takes Over X

Plus: Spotify Builds AI Lab, Wikipedia’s Vanishing Visitors

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The internet is shifting under our feet.

SOCIA MEDIA

X Kills the Algorithm, Hands the Feed to Grok

📌 What’s happening: Elon Musk confirmed that X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. In other words, the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform’s in-house AI model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts and videos every day to decide what users see. At the same time, X is testing a new interface that keeps users inside the app even when they open external links.

🧠 How this hits reality: This marks the first time a major social platform has handed full control of content discovery to an AI model. Engagement farms, trend-hacking accounts, and traditional growth tactics may soon lose their edge. The new winners will be those who write in ways that Grok interprets as engaging, turning social media optimization into a new form of prompt engineering. This shift could reshape influencer strategies, ad targeting, and even political communication in a matter of weeks.

🛎️ Key takeaway: X did not just change its algorithm; it replaced it with an AI reader. Your reach will soon depend on how fluently you can speak Grok.

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MUSIC

Spotify Builds AI Music Lab Under Label Supervision

📌 What’s happening: Spotify is teaming up with Sony, Universal, Warner, Merlin, and Believe to launch a “responsible” generative AI research lab. The company promises to only train models with licensed content, give artists a choice to opt in, and create “new revenue streams” instead of lawsuits. Translation: Spotify’s tired of being the villain and wants to own the next wave of AI-music infrastructure without another copyright scandal.

🧠 How this hits reality: This isn’t about ethics; it’s about control. By pulling labels into the lab, Spotify gets pre-cleared training data and a political shield against future lawsuits, something startups like Suno or Udio can’t buy. If this works, Spotify stops being just a streaming service and becomes the OS for AI-generated music, setting the terms everyone else must pay to play.

🛎️ Key takeaway: Spotify’s “responsible AI” pitch isn’t moral, it’s monopolistic. Whoever owns the training data owns the future of sound.

SEARCH

Wikipedia’s Human Traffic Drops 8% as AI Consumes the Open Web

📌 What’s happening: Wikipedia confirmed an 8 percent year-over-year decline in human pageviews after cleaning up inflated bot data. The Wikimedia Foundation attributes the drop to AI-driven search summaries that answer questions directly instead of sending clicks, and to younger users who now turn to short-form social videos for information. Google has publicly disputed that its AI features reduce traffic.

🧠 How this hits reality: As Wikipedia’s traffic shrinks, its editor base, donor pool, and cultural authority could erode. AI systems continue to rely on Wikipedia’s knowledge, yet few users return to the source. The web’s last independent reference point is slowly becoming invisible inside the very models it trained.

🛎️ Key takeaway: AI did not kill Wikipedia; it just stopped needing to visit.

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