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Idea Frontier #4: Enterprise Agentics, DaaS, Self-Improving LLMs

TL;DR — Edition #4 zeroes-in on three tectonic shifts for AI founders: Enterprise Agentics – agent frameworks such as Google’s new ADK, CrewAI and AutoGen are finally hardened for production, and AWS just shipped a reference pattern for an enterprise-grade text-to-SQL agent; add DB-Explore + Dynamic-Tool-Selection and you get a realistic playbook for querying 100-table warehouses with…

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Idea Frontier #3: Biosignature Chemistry, Photonic Intelligence, Synthetic Scaling

Welcome to the third edition of Idea Frontier, where we explore paradigm-shifting ideas in STEM and business. In this issue, we examine three frontiers at the cutting edge of science and innovation: a breakthrough in detecting potential alien biochemistry, the rise of light-based AI computing, and the scaling of generative AI into biotechnology. Each topic illustrates a major shift – from theory…

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Idea Frontier #2: Dynamic Tool Selection, Memory Engineering, and Planetary Computation

Welcome to the second edition of Idea Frontier, where we explore paradigm-shifting ideas at the nexus of STEM and business. In this issue, we dive into three frontiers: how AI agents are learning to smartly pick their tools (and why that matters for building more general intelligence), how new memory frameworks like Graphiti are giving LLMs a kind of real-time, editable memory (and what that…

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The Dark Side of AI Companions: Persuasion, Power, and Peril

The idea of an AI companion—always available, endlessly attentive, and shockingly helpful—has captured our collective imagination. From OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s reported effort to build a startup inspired by the movie Her, to daily interactions with tools like ChatGPT, we’re entering an era where AI is no longer just a tool—it’s a presence. But what happens when that presence becomes persuasive?…

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