Mint: “Imagine a marketing team deploying an AI agent to create an entire ad campaign—researching the target audience, drafting content, and optimizing strategy seamlessly. AI agents can also resolve customer queries, reducing response times and minimizing the need for human intervention. You may think of AI agentic systems as intelligent virtual employees that are capable of autonomous decision-making and action to achieve specific goals without human intervention.”
FT: “One tactic is to ask for advice, instead of feedback. A Harvard Business School working paper written by Hayley Blunden and colleagues finds that when people ask for advice, it tends to prompt more useful comments: critical, actionable and focused on the potential for future improvements. A second approach involves a neat two-step, demonstrated by author and psychologist Adam Grant. I interviewed him on stage a few months ago, and we had a great time. Afterwards, he asked me for marks out of 10 for our performance. Oh, nine and a half, I suggested. (There’s always room for improvement, right?) In a flash, the eager follow-up question: “What would have made it a 10?” Clever. If he’d just asked for my comments I’d have told him — truthfully — that I thought he was superb. But having persuaded me to admit that there was some fractional room for improvement, I then had to think about how.”
NYTimes has advice for heart health: “Dr. Khan’s top tip for patients, after quitting smoking, is to see how many flights of stairs they can climb without getting winded — and then start building on that. Regular exercise strengthens the heart muscle and makes the body more efficient at pulling oxygen out of the blood. It also brings down blood pressure and glucose levels and helps reduce the excess body fat that can lead to insulin resistance and other metabolic disorders.The American Heart Association recommends that adults get 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity per week, but not everyone has 30 minutes each day to hop on a treadmill or do high-intensity training, Dr. Lara-Breitinger said. That’s where small goals and short bursts of exercise can come in.”
Jensen Huang: ““It started with perception AI — understanding images, words and sounds. Then generative AI — creating text, images and sound…Next comes an era of “physical AI, AI that can proceed, reason, plan and act.”
Andy Kessler: “Faster productivity doesn’t just happen. Government shouldn’t pick winners and losers. Instead, productivity takes tireless scientists and engineers to experiment constantly with tiny improvements until the rest of us see what feels like huge gains in what we can do. Our future depends on this model. Autonomous cars and robo-taxis, almost ready for prime time, are soaking up ever-faster chips, AI, mobile broadband and vision systems. The same is true of augmented-reality glasses, productive personal assistants, and personalized medicine. Basic research of all types should be encouraged. Let many ideas flourish as industrial policy doesn’t work. Instead, success is like throwing spaghetti against the wall, seeing what sticks.” More: “It’s always a mistake when change is discouraged. Silicon Valley is one of the free market’s few meritocracies. The other is the self-correcting money-management business. Especially hedge funds. Both live on the edge of chaos. In both, if you underperform, you’re out. New ideas from those who live at the edge are fresh shots of energy to technology and really every industry.”
