November 2025

The month's news points to a cooling phase for artificial intelligence, where expansion continues but confidence is being tested across research, labour, culture, and security. Evidence is mounting that adoption is uneven: investors expect rapid uptake, yet usage lags; executives rely on AI far more than employees; and productivity gains remain hard to prove outside narrow cases like coding assistance. Creative industries, academia, and media are struggling to set limits, as AI-generated music, peer reviews, and “slop” blur trust and authorship, sometimes triggering backlash or legal risk. Security researchers are documenting misuse and fragility, from prompt injection and data breaches to models producing unsafe code or responding badly to adversarial training. At the same time, governments, airlines, banks, and courts are moving to formalise rules, warnings, and partnerships, signalling that AI is no longer experimental infrastructure but a regulated force with real consequences. Across philosophy, UX, economics, and ethics, a shared theme emerges: language models feel persuasive and human-like, yet their limits, incentives, and side effects are becoming clearer, forcing a reassessment of what AI is actually good for — and where it should be constrained. That is the news for November '25, links below