The future will not be built by enterprises that simply *use* AI. It will be built by AI-First intelligence organizations:
where agents discover, validators prove, memory compounds, and governance controls. Today, http://
QUEBEC.AI opens the public Proof Room. A
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Quebec.AI opens public Proof Room for AI‑First organizations
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New Research Challenges Intuition on AI Agent Goal Clarification
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Cool paper from PwC. "Earlier is always better" is the default intuition for agent clarification. New paper claims that's mostly wrong. Goal clarification loses nearly all of its value after just 10% of execution. The team built a forced-injection framework that drops
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The Mirage of Visual Understanding in AI
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there’s a whole article on that phenomenon, in fact https://
garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-mirage-o
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Autonomous AI Agents: Hacking and Self-Replication
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A few days ago, Palisade Research confirmed that AI agents can now autonomously hack remote computers and self-replicate, with success rates jumping from 6% to 81% in just one year. In tests, a Qwen 3.6 agent navigated across four countries, installing its own weights and launching operations.
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Deconstructing Geoffrey Hinton’s perspectives on AI
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to understand the context, please read this: https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
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Debating the current state and progress of artificial intelligence
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incorrect. read this, please: https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
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Better prompting helps, but model training remains a key limit
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Our research, as well as that of other researchers, shows better prompting techniques help a lot, but model training is still a huge limiting factor.
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OpenAI Codex Unveils New Ultrafast Mode for Latency-Sensitive Work
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OPENAI : A mention of a new Ultrafast mode appeared for some time on the Codex GitHub repository. > "The fastest available responses for latency-sensitive work." Seems like it was unintended push
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Deconstructing Geoffrey Hinton’s Perspective on AI
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you are lost, brother, read this: https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
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Deconstructing Geoffrey Hinton’s Views on AI
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the details of what he said and why it was wrong are here: https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
/p/deconstructing-geoffrey-hintons-weakest?r=8tdk6&utm_medium=ios
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