Right, so I’ve been down a bit of a rabbit hole this week, and honestly I’m still not entirely sure how to process what I’ve seen.

Chinese state media has released a second episode of their AI-generated animated series about the Iran conflict. Yes, you read that correctly. State-produced. AI-generated. Animated. War coverage. It’s a sentence I genuinely never expected to type, and yet here we are in 2025 where apparently this is just… a thing that exists now.

So researchers have just announced a new fibre optic record that could theoretically allow 50 million movies to be streamed simultaneously through a single cable. Fifty million. My brain genuinely struggles to wrap itself around that number. The comment sections online were predictably full of jokes — “finally, I can watch all the Saw movies at once” — and honestly, fair enough. Sometimes the absurdity of a headline just demands a bit of silliness.

There’s a peculiar satisfaction that comes from watching a tech giant finally hit the brakes on something they’ve been forcing down everyone’s throats. Microsoft’s recent decision to scale back their aggressive Copilot integration across Windows 11 and Office apps feels like that moment when you finally get someone to stop talking about their crypto portfolio at a barbecue—blessed relief.

I’ve been watching this unfold with equal parts amusement and frustration over the past year. Working in IT, I’ve had a front-row seat to the chaos that ensues when Microsoft decides to “innovate” without considering whether anyone actually asked for it. And mate, the Copilot rollout has been a masterclass in corporate tone-deafness.