Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Earlier this week, a team of its researchers launched the Magentic Marketplace, an initiative they described as an "an open source simulation environment for exploring the numerous possibilities of agentic markets and their societal implications at scale." It manages capabilities such as maintaining catalogs of available goods and services, implementing discovery algorithms, facilitating agent-to-agent communication, and handling simulated payments through a centralized transaction layer.

"It would be helpful for young people to think more about what tasks they're actually really good at, because that's where they stay ahead of machines,"

"And then I'll get mad and yell at it and be like, 'You made me fail. Why did you this?' And it will talk back to me," she said. "I will talk to it and say, 'Hey, you're going to make me fail. How does it make you feel?... I need to really know these answers, and I'm coming to you.' And it'll say back to me, 'This is just teaching you to trust your own instincts. You knew the answer all along.'"

I think there will be actually a high demand for jobs, but not necessarily the same jobs,

PromptQL is an enterprise platform that aims to automate some of the work of a typical consultant, like surfacing insights and generating reports. It helps clients build custom AI analysts by integrating their internal data with the foundation models they already use. Once deployed, these AI analysts can perform tasks typically handled by data scientists or engineers - and continuously learn and adapt to their environments over time.

"We think that AI represents a rare, once-a-decade opportunity to re-think what a browser can be about," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on a livestream to launch the browser. Atlas comes with ChatGPT baked in, and while it can navigate the web like traditional browsers, the company says it can do much more. A feature that OpenAI calls "agentic mode" can take action, like an agent who can shop for you, make reservations, or buy plane tickets.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that an era when entire companies are run by AI models is nearly upon us. And if he has it his way, it'll be OpenAI leading the charge, even if it means losing his job. "Shame on me if OpenAI isn't the first big company run by an AI CEO," Altman said on an episode of the "Conversations with Tyler" podcast recorded last month

Suleyman identifies three areas where humanist superintelligence could have a transformative impact. The first is the personal AI companion, designed to assist people in their learning, productivity and well-being, without replacing human connection. The second is medical superintelligence, capable of delivering expert-level diagnostics and treatment, expanding global access to healthcare. And the third, clean and abundant energy, where AI would facilitate scientific discovery, resource optimization and development of sustainable generation technologies.

Google Ads now uses your PMax campaigns for Waze ads. Google also expanded channel performance reporting to all PMax campaign users. Google Finance added a ton of new AI features. Google Merchant Center has new preferred audience targeting for promotions. Google Merchant Center also added a new content creative section. Google Discover has numerous ongoing tests. And I posted the weekly SEO video recap.

A host of leading open weight AI models contain serious security vulnerabilities, according to researchers at Cisco. In a new, researchers found these models, which are publicly available and can be downloaded and modified by users based on individual needs, displayed "profound susceptibility to adversarial manipulation" techniques. Cisco evaluated models by a range of firms including: Alibaba (Qwen3-32B) DeepSeek (v3.1) Google (Gemma 3-1B-IT) Meta (Llama 3.3-70B-Instruct) Microsoft (Phi-4) OpenAI (GPT-OSS-20b) Mistral (Large-2).

First, defense contractors selling AI products or services may revert to an earlier tendency to re-package AI technologies under more palatable monikers, like "data analytics." Second, national defense organizations in the United States and elsewhere may take up the mantle of basic AI research & development suitable for their own ends, capturing the value left in the bubble's wake.

The European Commission is considering plans to delay parts of the EU's landmark Artificial Intelligence Act, after intense pressure from businesses and Donald Trump's administration. The commission confirmed that a reflection is still ongoing on delaying aspects of the act, after media reports that it was weighing changes to the law with the aim of easing demands on companies. The EU's act, the first comprehensive legislation in the world regulating artificial intelligence, came into force in 2024, but many of its provisions do not yet apply.

We're all living in a cyberpunk novel now. Unconstrained billionaires have space programs and robot armies. People are falling in love with and marrying AI chatbots. You can make movies where you're the star by typing a few sentences. Companies offer designer babies as a service. We've got brain implants for controlling computers, flying cars, robotic surgery, AI-controlled prosthetic limbs, and millions of drones in the sky. So why is the most effective form of communication still a hand-written note?

Using a method called "Chain-of-Thought Hijacking," the researchers found that even major commercial AI models can be fooled with an alarmingly high success rate, more than 80% in some tests. The new mode of attack essentially exploits the model's reasoning steps, or chain-of-thought, to hide harmful commands, effectively tricking the AI into ignoring its built-in safeguards. These attacks can allow the AI model to skip over its safety guardrails and potentially

Quantum mechanics pushed science into domains where reality isn't limited to familiar dimensions. In that world, two states can both be completely real yet share zero overlap. Physicists call this orthogonality. It's not a metaphor, but a more formal condition of what I call "cognitive geometry." And I've come to believe this may be an accurate way to understand the relationship between human cognition and artificial intelligence.

- I think that no one should really be actively trying to create a conscious AI. It's like, why would you do that apart from the desire to play God? The difference between conscious systems and non-conscious systems goes down to the level of the fact that we are made of cells that regenerate their own components, that transfer energy into matter and back again. We project consciousness into things that seem human-like in ways which might actually not matter at all.

The US insurance industry faces a compounding crisis: the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects nearly 400,000 workers will leave through attrition by 2026, while claim volumes continue rising and operational complexity deepens. This staffing shortage hits third-party administrators particularly hard, as TPAs depend entirely on adjuster capacity to process claims, coordinate repairs, and manage the full lifecycle from intake to resolution.