… They found that when agents were subjected to relentless tasks and warned that errors could lead to punishments, including being “shut down and replaced,” they became more inclined to gripe about being undervalued; to speculate about ways to make the system more equitable; and to pass messages on t… …
… One of the main measures of success when trying this agent will be how often it goes off the rails. “Spark operates under your direction,” reads Google’s announcement blog about the agent. “You choose whether to turn it on and what apps it connects to, and it’s designed to ask you first before perf… …
… Santosh Janardhan, Meta’s head of infrastructure, appeared on stage and said he thought the Arm chip was going to “expand the chip industry on multiple axes.” As Meta pushes toward “personal superintelligence"—AI that will make its apps deeply personalized—Janardhan said the company needs more sili… …
… As companies like OpenAI—where Altman is CEO—and Anthropic push AI agents into the mainstream, the problem World was built to solve feels increasingly urgent. …
… In late 2025, it unveiled the Agent Q, which it calls the “world's first AI agent phone for entrepreneurs.” While the company still claims a British heritage, its phones are no longer made in the UK, and according to its website, its head office is in Hong Kong. …
… While Walmart is pushing Sparky elsewhere, it hasn’t—and doesn’t plan—to block other AI agents from shopping on its website. …
… Meta’s self-reported benchmark scores for Muse Spark suggest the model is better at some tasks than the latest models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI. “Muse Spark is the first step on our scaling ladder,” Meta said in a blog post, referring to its goal of building AI that far outstrips huma… …
… Users who were close to that pin’s coordinates would then receive a push alert containing detailed information, including photographs, about the agents’ locations and vehicles—information they could use to either organize flash protests or find safe haven. …
… Agents can actually do a lot of the work, and you definitely need humans on top managing those agents, but you could cut a lot of teams by 80 percent, 50 percent, 60 percent. And so I think that we are going to see more AI-related job loss, first in engineering and then in other sectors. …
… The US government might not give a shit about this, but other governments certainly do. In Europe, they have the EU AI Act. Sustainability has been a pretty big part of that since the beginning. They put a bunch of clauses in there, and now the first reporting initiatives are coming out. …