AI Newsletter Halloween Edition 10/23/25

[Caleb Bryant]

IT HootClub — AI BOO!-sletter - Halloween Edition

Hands-on. Career-focused. Future-ready.

Issued 2025-10-23

This email is the full newsletter. For a printable copy, click here to download the PDF.

Lift-Off

"Some futures whisper, some futures roar--but the scariest are the ones that stay silent! Mwahahaha! Heheheheeeeeeee! Oooooooohohohoooooooooo!" - Unknown Ghost of a poor lost soul.

The Nest Jest

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Upcoming Events

Event 10/24/2025 6:00 PM-9:00 PM

Game Night — WCTC L-Building - IT Student Center

Games, Prizes, Costume Contest, Snacks

Source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T_WomH53fHqetoCR8bikM96GmcKZx4Cq/view?usp=drive_link

Event 10/27/2025 11:00 AM-1:00 PM

Halloween Cookout — WCTC L-Building

Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, Chips, Candy

Source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xTgKPZHsfVNpPraEGUi4Yw-sIuxfrEs1/view?usp=drive_link

Event 10/30/202 2:00 PM-2:40 PM

Webinar - Speed Up Your AI: Practical Performance Engineering Tips — Online

In this live session, Fixstars engineers will explore AI performance engineering from a systems perspective—demonstrating how to detect and eliminate inefficiencies across GPU, CPU, memory, and interconnect layers in both training and inference pipelines. Participants will learn how to conduct low-level hardware profiling, interpret utilization metrics, and apply kernel-level and I/O optimizations that translate directly into measurable improvements in throughput, latency, and cost efficiency.

Source: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/webinar-speed-up-your-ai-practical-performance-engineering-tips-tickets-1778470315589?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Event 11/03/2025 5:30 PM-7:30 PM

Manufacturing Happy Hour LIVE at WCTC: Applied AI for Industry — WCTC Applied AI Lab 800 Main Street Building Q Pewaukee WI

Join us for an evening of beverages, appetizers, and networking with manufacturing industry professionals, plus a live podcasting recording

Source: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/manufacturing-happy-hour-live-at-wctc-applied-ai-for-industry-tickets-1755318507909?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Event 11/04/2025 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Comparables and Why They Matter — WCTC Applied AI Lab 800 Main Street, Buliding Q

Gener8tor Lunch & Learn

Source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rxmVzDEvVcy_bi5GF_W1CaHGBA-l35VS/view?usp=drive_link

Announcements

Halloween Cook-Out & Costume Contest

Come on over to L-Building on October 27th, 2025 11am-1pm....if you dare - MwaaahMwahhhh -- for Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, Chips, and Candy. IT Club is hosting a cook-out and costume contest.

Source: IT Club

Manufacturing Happy Hour LIVE

Join us at the WCTC Campus in the Applied AI Lab for this LIVE event with beverages and appetizers. Come to the AI Lab for your first time.

Source: IT Club

Event Registration

Be sure to click on the links to the events above to confirm registration requirements

Source: IT Club

Spring Class Registration

Don't forget to register for Spring 2026 classes, beginning Oct. 29th 2025

Source: IT Club

Creepy - In the News

News 10/08/2025 — latimes.com

Those hyperrealistic videos you're seeing could be fake news-because they're actually AI ads

In a short-form video post, an influencer gets worked up about a television news story from California. The images broadcast behind her appear authentic, with an anchor calling viewers to action, victims and even a CNN logo. “California accident victims getting insane payouts,” the anchor says above a banner touting “BREAKING NEWS.” But what could be a social media star excited about local news is actually an advertisement to entice people to sign up for legal services. And much of it is generated by artificial intelligence. read more

News 10/02/2025 — new.northeastern.edu

AI 'actress' Tilly Norwood has created a Hollywood firestorm

Tilly Norwood is the talk of the town in Hollywood right now. But unlike most actresses; it’s not because of a performance; activism or even a public blowup. It’s because Norwood isn’t an actress at all: She’s an artificial intelligence tool. read more

News 10/02/2025 — Independent

Americans Increasingly Turn to Chatbots for Romantic Pursuits,Study Finds

Almost one third of Americans say that they have had an “intimate or romantic relationship” with an AI chatbot, a new study has found. More than half of those surveyed (54 percent) said that they had some sort of relationship with an artificial intelligence platform; but that included as a work colleague; friend, or even simulating a family member. But 28 percent said that their relationship went beyond that and was “intimate or romantic,” according to Vantage Point Counseling Services; which carried out the study. read more

Caleb Bryant · cbry...@my.wctc.edu · (414) 458-1971

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