Interesting Links for 03-10-2025

[andrewducker]

1. OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3b in income, $13.5b in loss

(tags:ai business doom )

2. Features of autism can affect age of diagnosis — and so can genes

(tags:genetics autism age )

3. UK plummets down rankings for LGBTQ+ rights (from 1st place a decade ago to 22nd place today)

(tags:uk bigotry rights lgbt OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[cmcmck]

The latter is hardly a surprise!

[bens_dad]

2. I don't see any mention of the change in definition of autism.
If I had been diagnosed three years earlier my symptoms would not have been labelled as autism.

[andrewducker]

I'm pretty sure that this research was done using current definitions.

[bens_dad]

I was thinking they were trying to compare a child and someone in their forties, diagnosed at the same time.

Now I am at a screen big enough to read the paper properly I see that there were four groups of subjects, but in each group all the subjects were born in the same year (in the 21st century) and studied over a number of years.
The researchers are mostly interested comparing those diagnosed before age 3 with those diagnosed between 3 and 6 and *born only a year or two apart*, so the diagnostic differences may not have been large.

The change in definition I mentioned was mostly after those in the study were diagnosed, so it probably isn't significant.