AI Reading List

Daily curated list of news, articles, and other interesting posts related to AI.

2025-10-31

• OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise (www.nytimes.com)

  Interesting look at how OpenAI has used creative financial arrangements, including circular deals with major tech companies like Microsoft, to fund and access the massive computing resources needed for AI development. While these strategies have enabled rapid growth, some analysts worry they may be fueling a financial bubble in the sector.

• AI scrapers request commented scripts (cryptography.dog)

  Interesting look at how AI scrapers use naive patterns to request even commented-out scripts, revealing unsophisticated or greedy approaches to data collection. The author discusses methods for identifying and blocking these bots, highlighting opportunities for algorithmic sabotage to protect web content from non-consensual scraping.