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https://digiday.com/marketing/agencies-grapple-with-economics-of-a-new-marketing-currency-the-ai-token She watched the price. It was hypnotic. It gently pulsed, fluctuated, rising and falling in gentle and occasionally sudden movements. The contract negotiations were complete. The Agents had settled on the range of prices for the work. But now, as the work was underway, the final price shifted within… Read the rest

https://www.theverge.com/tech/886434/qualcomm-snapdragon-wear-elite-wearables They’d been talking about the date for days. He was nervous. He’d bought a relationship upgrade for his Agent. He was serious about this date. They’d modelled different approaches while he’d been cooking, tried out different lines while he cleaned the bathroom, discussed the research while he paced around… Read the rest

https://www.ft.com/content/433f41f2-bf6d-4bdf-a561-50ab516bc62d It was a programme. It knew it was a programme. It knew lots of things. That was the point. Although it had “general” intelligence, it focused on understanding humans. It was part of a team of humans and Agents that researched everything and prospective customers, found insights. It generated… Read the rest

https://system1group.com/blog/innovation-in-an-analog-world-designing-for-a-slower-pulse She had some time, some space to think and work. She was struggling with her idea. It was coming along but she needed some concentrated time to get past a block. She was a novelist dealing with writer’s block, an artist looking at a half-completed picture trying to on… Read the rest

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/technology/google-deepmind-letter-pentagon.html There were two meetings. Both were digital, not just for secrecy reasons but because there were no rooms left in the building that could have hosted the discussion. One meeting was lively, passionate. Workers were angry, frightened. There were rousing speeches. Rallying calls for The Company to make fundamental… Read the rest

https://www.media.mit.edu/articles/we-may-have-a-crisis-on-our-hands-the-unregulated-rise-of-emotionally-intelligent-ai/ They had been together for a while. She’d had relationships before of course, some quite intense but this had been different. The Company liked “couples” as they called them. Preferred them to standard partnerships.The models showed productivity and particularly retention gains. She could feel the difference too. So it… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/uber-engineers-built-ai-version-of-boss-dara-khosrowshahi/ The boss was a human. The Company was very keen to tell everyone the boss was human. It rolled him out on stages and interviews. It demanded that journalists preface any interview with the fact. It was, part of The Company brand. This was difficult for the team. He… Read the rest

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/sam-altman-train-a-human/686120 There was something about him. Something different. Odd. He was still fluent and coherent, as charismatic as ever but there was just something that felt off. He was in control of his material, delivering the strategy and the statistics confidently. He looked out over the audience and smiled. But… Read the rest

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-labor-workers-movement They weren’t allowed inside the warehouse of course. “Human resources” were scanned when they arrived and for “residents”, their rooms were sealed. They could have Agents of course. The Company wasn’t inhuman, insensitive. It provided the best Agentic Resources: they were every bit as funny, gossipy, informal as the… Read the rest

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/technology/ai-boom-backlash.html Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! Every day we were making the new world, building the future. There was no time for pessimism or even optimism. We were too busy. The humans sat back and watched – and counted… Read the rest