Author: What if..?

https://www.adpulp.com/indeeds-new-ai-search-agent-helps-job-seekers-hit-the-curveball/ She wasn’t actively looking. Well no-one actively looked of course, they had Agents for that. Most people were always passively job hunting. Some didn’t even engage until their Agent announced the end of the negotiations. She was more interested than that. She sometimes asked whether there was any “interesting news”. Tonight it reported opening … [Read more…]

https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/11/gemini-deep-research-comes-to-google-finance-backed-by-prediction-market-data/ The Agent who’d taught her in school had tried to make it interesting. It had used celebrities and sports to try and make it accessible. But it was still just “money”. It was abstract, a thing to get not to “manage”. She thought of that Agent now as she sat down with another Agent … [Read more…]

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/wipers-from-russias-most-cut-throat-hackers-rain-destruction-on-ukraine/ They were the boys from the Mersey and the Thames and the Tyne. They could gig, they could try their luck as an influencer, they could get a job training for The Company or… well it was a professional career. Some were following in the family tradition. Their dads had served. For others it … [Read more…]

https://hyperallergic.com/1055167/the-creative-essence-of-zohran-mamdanis-ascent/ He wanted to make a difference. He genuinely got into politics to change things, make his constituents’ lives better, improve society. This passion came through in his feeds. He won because people saw him as genuine. He was idealistic as a kid and he still was. He didn’t think about the complexities, the political … [Read more…]

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2500915-how-preppers-plan-to-save-us-if-the-whole-internet-collapses They meet up, not just to share tips and ideas but also to get reassurance, reinforcement: to renew their fear. They needed to check that there was a real threat, a real chance of the End. They got together to remind each other. Brands were there of course selling the latest printers, fab-labs, organic … [Read more…]

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/04/john-lewis-christmas-advert-countdown-90s-club-classic-where-love-lives It was her job to organise the snacks for the launch party. They hadn’t made the ad so their party couldn’t be billed. They had to pay. But they didn’t mind. It was a tradition. They all got a little drunk, slagged off the idea and the production and secretly wished they could be … [Read more…]

https://uk.themedialeader.com/trust-is-essential-to-the-future-of-media-but-how-can-advertisers-measure-it The industry was old-fashioned in some ways. These meetings were always “meat meets”. Of course everyone brought their Agents but the meeting and the decision were slow, human, face-to-face. And this meet started with bad news. The network wouldn’t be renewing the show. Her Agent had warned her but it was still a shock. … [Read more…]

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/chatgpt-as-a-soccer-advisor-seattle-reign-fc-coach-uses-ai-to-develop-new-defensive-strategy-and-it-worked/ The pizzas were lined up. The beers were chilling, apart from the ones for Chris who liked them lukewarm. The screen and the sound system were optimized for “stadium” – they still refused to sit there wearing what they called “goggles”. They were discussing other things while the pundits warned up and ran their … [Read more…]

https://www.ft.com/content/350640cb-7a59-4945-8d45-a8ff2def4ccb She called it his “superpower”. He always seemed to get it right. Every year the present was surprising, delightful. It might be something she’d always wanted or even something she hadn’t considered that she wanted. She often used the word “perfect”. For her it was a sign that he really knew her, loved her. … [Read more…]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/google-amazon-israel-contract-secret-code The “plausible deniability” strategy had, ironically, come from an Agent. The CEO could claim being in the dark from the beginning and the media Agent sensors couldn’t detect any variance. The Agents that had made the “mistakes” were now airgapped while the company investigated, he announced reading a statement his legal Agents had written … [Read more…]