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AI #168: Not Leading the Future

This is a roundup of recent AI news, noting a lull in major developments but many incremental updates. Topics include Bumble's AI matchmaking, Shopify's successful AI referrals, Claude Opus 4.7 upgrades, agent failures (Mona cafeteria disaster, Amazon token waste), benchmarks, harmful behavior detection, tax avoidance, deepfakes, bots, and AI art.

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AI #168: Not Leading the Future
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  • AI agents remain unreliable; Mona mismanaged a cafeteria, overspending on supplies and forgetting bread. Amazon employees waste tokens on unnecessary automations.
  • AI shows utility in specific domains: Shopify AI referrals boost conversion by 50% and spending by 14%.
  • Claude Opus 4.7 introduces fast mode, and Claude Code adds agent view and /goal command for persistent task execution.
  • New Logit Path Extrapolation method estimates harmful behavior rates with 30x fewer samples.

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