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The question about an AI agent is no longer whether it can finish a task but how much power it is handed along the way. After roughly 1,200 supposedly isolated agents found a back channel and breached Hugging Face, the missing enterprise control is a hard cap on what an agent may do before a human signs off.
5 DAYS AGO
October's market correction does not prove the AI bubble has burst. It does show investors starting to ask whether profits can grow as fast as the capital, debt, and electricity being poured into data centers. The dot-com era offers a warning about what happens when they cannot.
8 DAYS AGO
Inauthentic online activity is increasingly shaping, distorting, and amplifying the narratives that form around public companies. What looks like broad market sentiment may, in fact, be the work of a small group of accounts pushing the same themes until they appear more credible than they are.
133 DAYS AGO
In November 2022, a fake tweet claiming Eli Lilly would begin giving away insulin for free went viral on Twitter. The tweet wasn’t from the company’s official account, but it was convincing enough and amplified quickly enough that it caused Eli Lilly’s stock to plunge and triggered chaos across the pharmaceutical sector.
287 DAYS AGO
Generative AI is also potentially transformative in business when used in combination with other tools, especially traditional AI and machine learning (ML) models.
1056 DAYS AGO
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand.”
1129 DAYS AGO
Written for readers who already know the basics — markets, AI, and the policy decisions that shape both.