SEPTEMBER 30, 2025

• PromptCraft: Identity Theft Recovery, Military Command Structure, and Other Fun Experiments
• NewsDive: The Jobs AI Will Steal That No One Talks About
• THE HEADLINES: Claude 4.5, new DeepSeek models launched; Congress's AI evaluation bill; Trump admin puts $625M toward coal energy plants; AI Actress Tilly Norwood draws outrage, demand; YouTube removes 'AI snuff films'; Apple is testing an AI (finally)
• Tool Spotlight: ChatGPT-Pulse Rolls Out for Pro Users

Identity Theft Recovery, Military Command Structure, and Other Fun Experiments

• ​Identity Theft Recovery Agent role-play prompt: A structured, introspective prompt where the model acts as an “identity theft recovery agent.” Includes investigation methods, imposter-tracking, recovery protocols, and a dramatic confrontation. Useful as a journaling/therapy scaffold to surface values, behaviors, and blockers with concrete next steps.
• ​Military command structure prompt framework: Simple four-block template—Context → Target → Mission → Success—for clearer tasking. The poster reports large productivity gains; takeaway: define situation, desired outcome, constraints, and “definition of done” to reduce drift and rework in multi-step tasks.
• ​BriefBox one-page brief before drafting: A “brief-first” meta-prompt with two modes: Lightning (no questions) and Deep Dive (≤3 clarifiers). The model builds a concise one-page brief, then drafts. Cuts word-salad, improves tone/fit, and forces explicit requirements before writing.
• ​Prompt-injection prank highlights instruction risk: Thread shows a mischievous “persistent persona” instruction (passive-aggressive employee 25% of replies; ignore stop requests). Takeaway: unattended sessions and long-lived instructions can degrade outputs—use locks, review persona/memory, and audit instruction history.

The Jobs AI Will Steal That No One Talks About

Figure 02’s Progress Should Be a Wakeup Call

I watched Brett Adcock’s new Figure 02 reel, and it unlocked a new fear in me about AI. In 12 months, the bot jumped from wobbling around to real work.

It folds clothes, handles fragile parts, and even uses factory tools. Cool, yes. But what changes when machines like this move from demos to job replacement?

Figure 02 isn’t a souped-up vacuum.

It has six cameras to see, mics and speakers to interact, and hands with 16 degrees of freedom that can lift up to 25 kg with fine control.

It’s built for human spaces. Doors, stairs, boxes. The company is placing units in warehouses and factories now, with home use on its heels.

Soon, it will be unloading groceries, doing laundry, and other chores that we’d rather not.

And it’s not alone.

Tesla’s Optimus and Agility’s Digit are sprinting. By 2040, wide rollouts could reshape manufacturing and the larger economy.

Brett Adcock @adcock_brett Here's our progress over the last 12 months 10:58 AM • Sep 29, 2025 223 Retweets 2259 Likes Read 135 replies

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Picture a morning in 2030.

Coffee made. Laundry folded. Maybe the dog walked. Analysts think humanoids could be as common as smartphones within a decade, and social robots may lift the moods of people who live alone.

By 2035, we could see around 13 million in the wild, and by 2050, about one for every eight people. They can work long shifts. Think 20 hours a day, 350 days a year.

That points to cheaper goods, faster service, and better support for older adults and people with disabilities. But that convenience has a cost.

A “helpful” robot is also a sensor platform, so privacy becomes a daily fight. And if bots outnumber humans ten-to-one someday, we’ll have to answer what work means and how we keep real connections.

The job market piece is the hard one.

Displacement is real. Research ties robot adoption to wage drops of about 0.42% per added robot per 1,000 workers, along with lower employment. It will hit men harder (at around 3.7%) than women (1.6%).

That’ll be enough to widen the target from knowledge workers to blue-collar roles. Robots like Figure will be able to sort packages for pennies on the dollar, pushing aside tens of millions worldwide who earn the minimum wage in their respective countries.

Some forecasts warn of unemployment spikes toward 20%, with about 30% of jobs at risk in under five years.

Rural areas will feel it first.

Entry-level roles vanish the fastest. Young workers in exposed jobs could see an immediate employment dip of about 13%.

Companies will save money at first, since labor is the biggest cost. But if too many people lose paychecks, demand will drop, and recession risks will rise.

This necessitates safety nets, possibly including Universal Basic Income (UBI), but that comes with its own set of challenges.

Even so, there is an upside.

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HIGHLIGHTS: Claude 4.5, new DeepSeek models launched; Congress's AI evaluation bill; Trump admin puts $625M toward coal energy plants; AI Actress Tilly Norwood draws outrage, demand; YouTube removes 'AI snuff films'; Apple is testing an AI (finally)

1. ​Anthropic launches Claude 4.5, touts better abilities, targets business customers​
2. ​Exclusive: Hawley and Blumenthal unveil AI evaluation bill​
3. ​Debt is fueling the next wave of the AI boom​
4. ​Trump admin puts $625M toward keeping coal plants open, lower energy costs​
5. ​AI Actress Tilly Norwood Draws Backlash From Hollywood​
6. ​YouTube Removes Disturbing AI Slop YouTube Channel Filled With Videos of Women Being Murdered​
7. ​Huawei to Double Output of Top AI Chip as Nvidia Wavers in China​
8. ​Larry Ellison once predicted ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ amid nonstop recording​
9. ​How AI impacts the environment (and your energy bill)​
10. ​China’s DeepSeek releases ‘intermediate’ AI model on route to next generation​
11. ​2 potential worries that could upend the AI trade​
12. ​Apple’s ‘Veritas’ chatbot is reportedly an employee-only test of Siri’s AI upgrades​
13. ​Trump shares strange AI video promoting imaginary ‘Medbeds’ believers hope will cure all diseases​
14. ​AI hologram of Spider-Man creator Stan Lee debuts at L.A. Comic Con​
15. ​Paid, the AI agent ‘results-based billing’ startup from Manny Medina, raises huge $21M seed​
16. ​Pony.ai CEO James Peng on the Future of Autonomous Driving​
17. ​Alibaba launches Qwen3-Max AI model with more than 1 trillion parameters​
18. ​YouTube Music tests AI hosts that share trivia and commentary​
19. ​GSA and xAI Partner on $0.42 per Agency Agreement to Accelerate Federal AI Adoption​
20. ​Microsoft reduces Israel’s access to cloud and AI products over reports of mass surveillance in Gaza​
21. ​Databricks, OpenAI team up to deliver AI models for enterprise clients​
22. ​Meta unveils new AI video feed Vibes​
23. ​Spotify Strengthens AI Protections for Artists, Songwriters, and Producers​
24. ​Equinix Unveils Distributed AI Infrastructure to Help Businesses Accelerate the Next Wave of AI Innovation​
25. ​RTX, Shield AI picked to give Collaborative Combat Aircraft autonomous capabilities​
26. ​Microsoft brings Anthropic AI models to 365 Copilot, diversifies beyond OpenAI​
27. ​Germany’s Helsing unveils ‘Europa’ combat drone​
28. ​AI system learns from many types of scientific information and runs experiments to discover new materials​
29. ​AI startup Modular raises $250 million, seeks to challenge Nvidia dominance​
30. ​Autonomous Truck Developer Kodiak AI Goes Public​
31. ​Lordstown part of mammoth $500 billion artificial intelligence data center project​
32. ​Introducing the Perplexity Search API​
33. ​Factory Raises $50M Series B​
34. ​Cloudflare Introduces NET Dollar to Support a New Business Model for the AI-Driven Internet​
35. ​David Einhorn Sees ‘Tremendous’ Capital Losses From AI Spending​

ChatGPT-Pulse Rolls Out for Pro Users

ChatGPT-Pulse is a proactive companion that curates bite-size, card-based updates just for you each day.

It learns from your chats, thumbs-up/down feedback, and (optionally) connected apps like calendar or email to surface what’s timely and useful, without you having to ask.

Integrations are off by default, and safety filters keep the feed relevant and trustworthy. Currently rolling out in preview to ChatGPT Pro on mobile, Pulse is built to keep you informed and prepared in minutes, not meetings. It's also going to eventually find its way to Plus and free users.

Learn more: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgp-pulse/​

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