{"id":19897,"date":"2025-08-26T13:37:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/is-the-ai-boom-finally-starting-to-slow-down\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T13:37:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:37:28","slug":"is-the-ai-boom-finally-starting-to-slow-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/is-the-ai-boom-finally-starting-to-slow-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the AI boom finally starting to slow down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stocks of firms with big AI pushes tumbled this week, Meta announced an AI hiring freeze, and the first big test of an AI reality check looms<\/p>\n<p>Hello, and welcome to TechScape.<\/p>\n<p>Just beneath the breathless promotion of AI, cracks are beginning to appear<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/22\/ai-chatgpt-new-model-grief\">AI lovers grieve loss of ChatGPT\u2019s old model: \u2018Like saying goodbye to someone I know\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/aug\/20\/i-share-all-my-deepest-thoughts-and-feelings-with-chatgpt-but-our-friendship-is-doomed\">I share all my deepest thoughts and feelings with ChatGPT \u2013 but our friendship is doomed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/may\/24\/police-live-facial-recognition-cameras-england-and-wales\">Live facial recognition cameras may become \u2018commonplace\u2019 as police use soars<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jul\/31\/met-police-to-more-than-double-use-of-live-facial-recognition\">Met police to more than double use of live facial recognition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/08\/facial-recognition-technology-discriminates-against-people-of-colour\">Facial recognition technology discriminates against people of colour<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2025\/aug\/19\/met-chief-rejects-calls-scrap-live-facial-recognition-notting-hill-carnival\">Met chief rejects calls to scrap live facial recognition at Notting Hill carnival<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/aug\/20\/met-police-facial-recognition-plans-fall-foul-of-european-law-says-watchdog-notting-hill-carnival\">Met police\u2019s facial recognition plans fall foul of European law, says watchdog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/aug\/20\/metropolitan-police-live-facial-recognition-notting-hill-carnival\">I now think police use of live facial recognition will make us safer \u2013 here\u2019s why you should think so too | Brian Paddick<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/25\/artificial-intelligence-openai-tiktok\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ceaa9799b844789a65f53c88a25bc22b2a6d5b2b\/0_25_6057_4843\/master\/6057.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9af97ee9cf184a4cf75d0c4c636ac610\" title=\"Is the AI boom finally starting to slow down?\" \/>Stocks of firms with big AI pushes tumbled this week, Meta announced an AI hiring freeze, and the first big test of an AI reality check looms<br \/>\nHello, and welcome to TechScape.<br \/>\nJust beneath the breathless promotion of AI, cracks are beginning to appear<br \/>\nAI lovers grieve loss of ChatGPT\u2019s old model: \u2018Like saying goodbye to someone I know\u2019<br \/>\nI share all my deepest thoughts and feelings with ChatGPT \u2013 but our friendship is doomed<br \/>\nLive facial recognition cameras may become \u2018commonplace\u2019 as police use soars<br \/>\nMet police to more than double use of live facial recognition<br \/>\nFacial recognition technology discriminates against people of colour<br \/>\nMet chief rejects calls to scrap live facial recognition at Notting Hill carnival<br \/>\nMet police\u2019s facial recognition plans fall foul of European law, says watchdog<br \/>\nI now think police use of live facial recognition will make us safer \u2013 here\u2019s why you should think so too | Brian Paddick Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stocks of firms with big AI pushes tumbled this week, Meta announced an AI hiring freeze, and the first big test of an AI reality check looms Hello, and welcome to TechScape. Just beneath the breathless promotion of AI, cracks are beginning to appear AI lovers grieve loss of ChatGPT\u2019s old model: \u2018Like saying goodbye &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/is-the-ai-boom-finally-starting-to-slow-down\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is the AI boom finally starting to slow down?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19897"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}