AI Weekly News Rundown: 📉ChatGPT growth slows as daily usage declines 🤖Instagram lets parents block kids from AI characters 🇺🇸 Nvidia Blackwell chip production starts in the US & 🪄No Kings (Oct 13 to Oct 19 2025)

The Geopolitics of Silicon and the Maturation of Intelligence:

📉 ChatGPT growth slows as daily usage declines

🤖 Instagram lets parents block kids from AI characters

🇺🇸 Nvidia Blackwell chip production starts in the US

👷 Anthropic turns to ‘skills’ to make Claude more useful at work

🛑 OpenAI suspends Sora depictions of Martin Luther King Jr

🧪 Google’s Gemma-based AI finds new cancer treatment

📉 AI bots and summaries hurt Wikipedia traffic

😨 Pew poll shows global AI concern outweighs excitement

🧪 OpenAI recruits black hole physicist for science initiative

🎬 Google’s upgraded Veo 3.1 video model