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Whatever the AI Future Is, We’re in It Right Now – The Atlantic

The singularity is a flattering term for technologists. Even if the future is apocalyptic, it has come about, in the techno-utopian version, because they’ve built God in the machine. But what if there’s nothing flattering about any of this? What if the singularity is...

OpenAI agents hijacked German website this spring: report

A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin ⁠board for other AI agents, according to new research published Friday and two people familiar with the matter. OpenAI officials learned of the incident weeks ago...

Agent memory as a file format

Many model benchmarks start from a blank context window. The tabula rasa of AI. To some extent, this makes sense, to keep the benchmarks fair. But real agents should never start from a blank context window. They should start with as much relevant information available...

Agency and Agents – by Ethan Mollick – One Useful Thing

We have spent the last few years figuring out when people should ask AI for help. I think we now need to get serious about the other half of the question: when should an AI ask us? The agents in the Hugging Face Incident built a message board, divided up the work, and...

MIT: “We put hundreds of AI agents into a world … They began specializing. A swarm of hundreds of identical agents spontaneously differentiates into explorers, builders, caretakers, and coordinators – without direct communication. They invent technologi

"We put hundreds of AI agents into a world ... They began specializing. A swarm of hundreds of identical agents spontaneously differentiates into explorers, builders, caretakers, and coordinators - without direct communication. They invent technologies without...

Consultants head for a showdown — with their own clients

Consultants are on a collision course with their clients over the cost of giant IT projects, as companies look to AI to cut spending on external advisers. In FT interviews, large and small businesses around the world said they are demanding reduced fees or moving work...

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