By Vishal Mathur
Publication Date: 2025-11-19 01:30:00
Cognitive warmup. Earlier this year, much to cheers from the shortsighted and unintelligent, Microsoft claimed that as much as 30% of the company’s code is now written by AI. Fast forward and snapshot the months since, Windows 11 updates have been an absolute mess. The October update breaks the Windows Recovery Environment by preventing input from USB keyboard or mouse accessories. The August update caused hard drives to become inaccessible or data to be lost. The big 24H2 update had installation failures. Along the way, websites failing to load, random app crashes or freeze behaviour, and even Windows’ inability to understand the “update and shut down” command have been noted as highlights. I’ve said this before, but perhaps a repetition is in order — Humans > AI. Fact.
ALGORITHM
We talk about why everyone’s willing Perplexity to fail, Satya Nadella’s commentary on defining destiny and importance of sovereignty for AI companies, and is the Rabbit out of the dodgy hat?
Perplexity’s “most likely to fail” moment
I’d say two themes stand out most at the Cerebral Valley Conference 2025 — there is significant investor unease with all things AI, and secondly, Perplexity which is perpetually trying to get Google’s attention whilst also in a legal wrangle with Amazon now, has been voted as the likeliest to fail by attendees. And…