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★ Must Read🔮 Agents form alliances, DeepMind’s reset & how likely is a crash? #596

Your Sunday briefing on how AI is colliding with markets, institutions, and culture.

Qwen3.8 Is Almost Here — and Agent Benchmarks Are More Fragile Than They Look
Kaitchup

Kaitchup — Qwen3. 8 Is Almost Here — and Agent Benchmarks Are More Fragi...

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The Window of Critique for AI is Closing Fast
Leon Furze

Large language model-based AI is increasingly integrated into daily life, making it challenging for critics to highlight its limitations. As technology becomes user-friendly, the inner workings are often obscured, akin to past experiences with telecommunication and internet infrastructures. This shift prompts a need for continued scrutiny and understanding of AI systems' complexities and implications.

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Seven reasons I wouldn’t count Google out

Gary Marcus — Seven reasons I wouldn’t count Google out

[AINews] Zawinski's Law of MultiAgents

a quiet day lets us find some connections among recent themes

[AINews] AMD buys Taalas

Latent Space — [AINews] AMD buys Taalas

★ Must ReadNow we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

Plus One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5, and a big new LLM release

★ Must ReadIn Case You Missed It ✨

Catch up on recent Wonder Tools posts about AI tools, private setups, and clear thinking

My Agent Setup and the Practices Behind It

Louis Bouchard — My Agent Setup and the Practices Behind It

[AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demis to Chair; Koray to SVP — what is going on at GDM???

Latent Space — [AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demi...

🔮 Agents form alliances, DeepMind’s reset & how likely is a crash? #596
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OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide
Anthony Ha, TechCrunch AI
OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because its supposedly too powerful
Jay Peters, The Verge AI