Nov 13, 2025 6 min read Daily Rundown

🛎️ Mind Captioning

Plus: Whistleblowers to Job Loss, OpenAI Launched GPT-5.1

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The closer machines get to understanding us, the less certain we become about what still makes us irreplaceable.

NEUROTECH

AI Just Learned to Caption the Human Mind

📌 What’s happening: Researchers at Japan’s NTT Communication Science Laboratories published a Science Advances study unveiling a “mind captioning” system that turns brain scans into coherent descriptions of what a person sees. Using fMRI imaging and a large language model trained for masked language modeling, the system iteratively refines raw neural data into sentences that accurately describe short video clips — like “a person jumps over a deep waterfall on a mountain ridge.” It’s the first time AI has turned complex brain activity into structured visual language, not just single-word guesses.

🧠 How this hits reality: Unlike Neuralink’s electrode-based decoding, which reads motor signals from inside the skull, this approach is entirely noninvasive. The tradeoff is speed: fMRI is slow, expensive, and currently impractical outside a lab. But the conceptual leap is huge — it shows that AI can fill in the semantic gaps of brain data without relying on massive caption databases. This could eventually enable communication tools for patients with paralysis or speech loss, mental-state monitoring in clinical research, and even new interfaces for immersive media or creative work.

🛎️ Key takeaway: Neuralink is wiring the brain to speak; this team is teaching it to narrate — one caption at a time.

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LABOR

DeepSeek Just Told AI Labs to Confess

📌 What’s happening: After nearly a year of strategic silence, DeepSeek popped back up at China's Wuzhen World Internet Conference and immediately lit a match. Their rep, Chen Deli, called on all AI companies to become “whistleblowers” and publicly report which human jobs their models will eliminate first. This was not a philosophical aside. It was a low-cost-model insurgent telling the entire frontier-model ecosystem to confess its economic casualties in real time — and doing so after months of being completely off the radar.

🧠 How this hits reality: For DeepSeek, the move is obvious. Transparency norms disproportionately benefit the player with the lowest training cost structure and the least legacy baggage. Turning job-loss reporting into a moral duty conveniently raises the regulatory bar for everyone else. But for major labs built on trillion-parameter hype and billion-dollar burn rates, the message lands like a grenade. No company wants to be forced into admitting which sectors they are about to hollow out — even if, ethically, they should. DeepSeek can’t stop competitors from spinning, but it can make every spin sound a little more guilty.

🛎️ Key takeaway: DeepSeek’s comeback wasn’t a statement; it was a provocation. They framed accountability as a virtue, but the real play is pressure.

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NEW LAUNCH

OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 Adds “Personality Presets” No One Asked For

📌 What’s happening: OpenAI just launched GPT-5.1 with two model modes (Instant and Thinking) and eight “personalities” — Default, Professional, Friendly, Candid, Quirky, Efficient, Nerdy, and Cynical. The update promises warmth and customization, but users immediately pointed out: you could already make GPT act like any of these — or thousands more — just by writing a better prompt.

🧠 How this hits reality: This isn’t personalization; it’s prefab cosplay. Instead of unlocking deeper reasoning or stronger memory, OpenAI added a UI shortcut for what power users have been doing since GPT-3.5. It’s like selling bottled air to people already breathing fine. Microsoft, meanwhile, keeps shifting Copilot workloads to Anthropic’s Claude — because personality sliders don’t build moats.

🛎️ Key takeaway: GPT-5.1 lets you pick from eight moods when the real superpower was always infinite ones.

QUICK HITS

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was served a subpoena onstage in San Francisco to testify in a criminal trial involving anti-AI protesters.
Trump’s Truth Social AI chatbot has backfired by bluntly exposing inconvenient truths about his own policies and claims.
OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 update makes ChatGPT faster, clearer, and more customizable, pushing it closer to functioning like a true personal assistant.
The YC-backed Chad IDE integrates brainrot entertainment into AI coding workflows, igniting debate over the line between innovation and gimmick.
ElevenLabs secured celebrity voice deals and launched an authorized AI voice marketplace, signaling growing Hollywood openness to AI technology.

TRENDING

Daily AI Launches

Algebras has launched an AI dubbing platform that provides human-level lip-sync and emotional accuracy for video localization.
Superapp has launched as the first AI full-stack engineer for iOS, capable of coding production-ready Swift apps.
Logo.dev has launched a simple, fast API for getting reliable brand logos for any company, stock, or crypto symbol.
YouWare has launched a "Vibe Coding" mobile platform that lets anyone build mobile apps using natural language or voice prompts.

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