AI Reading List

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

2025-11-03

• Syllabi – Open-source agentic AI with tools, RAG, and multi-channel deploy (www.syllabi-ai.com)

  Overview of Syllabi, an open-source platform for creating customizable AI chatbots that use knowledge bases and integrate with multiple apps and channels. Features include advanced retrieval with citations, omnichannel deployment, extensible skills, code execution, and privacy-focused self-hosting.

• I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today (bloomberry.com)

  Analysis of nearly 180 million job postings shows that AI is causing the sharpest declines in creative execution roles such as graphic artists, photographers, and writers, while creative leadership jobs remain resilient. Other notable impacts include significant drops in corporate compliance and sustainability positions, as well as a possible AI-driven decline in medical scribe roles, while software engineering and customer service jobs remain stable.

• OpenAI Signs $38B Cloud Computing Deal with Amazon (www.nytimes.com)

  OpenAI has signed a $38 billion deal to use Amazon's cloud computing services, reflecting its ongoing push to expand the computing power behind its AI technologies like ChatGPT. This move follows OpenAI's increased spending on hardware and partnerships, amid industry concerns about a potential tech investment bubble as AI remains costly and largely unproven.

• Google pulls AI model after senator says it fabricated assault allegation (www.theverge.com)

  Google removed its Gemma AI model from AI Studio after it generated a fabricated and defamatory allegation about Senator Marsha Blackburn, highlighting ongoing concerns about AI hallucinations and accuracy. The incident underscores the risks of using developer-oriented AI models for factual queries and the broader industry challenge of preventing false information.

• Agent-o-rama: build, trace, evaluate, and monitor LLM agents in Java or Clojure (blog.redplanetlabs.com)

  Overview of Agent-o-rama, a new open-source library for building and monitoring advanced, stateful LLM agents in Java and Clojure, offering scalable agent graphs, integrated tracing, evaluation, and a web interface for observability. Interesting shift bringing rigorous AI development tools to the JVM ecosystem, which has traditionally lagged behind Python options.