Ashu Garg: “Long-horizon autonomy is the third major inflection point that we’ve seen in AI in three years: first, the ChatGPT moment, which surfaced the power of pre-training and RLHF; then the o1 moment, which introduced inference-time compute as a second scaling law; and now the long-horizon agent moment, where models can plan, act, recover from failure, and persist until a job is done.”
Sarah L. Kaufman: “When we can appreciate how verbs really do stimulate our bodies, even in subtle ways that we may not be aware of, verb choices become even more important…If you’re telling a story, you can use the power of suggestion. It’s very, very powerful. Verbs lend themselves to great storytelling by enabling us to show rather than tell. So rather than a lot of wordy description, we can just use some verbs to really get right to the point.”
FT: “A few months ago a New York financier told me he had just experienced a “first”: his 2025 summer interns “were the first true AI natives I have seen”. This meant they had grown up not only among digital tech, but AI too. So how did it go? He winced. While those wannabe masters of the universe initially seemed wildly impressive, when senior financiers later probed their ideas they found them alarmingly shallow. Consequently this person’s company made fewer return offers and is now focusing less on graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics — and more humanities students instead. “We want critical thinking, not just AI,” he explains. Human brainpower is needed to handle the silicon variant.”
WSJ: “During a recent pitch for a healthcare company, [WPP’s CEO Cindy] Rose was willing to cut the agency’s fee for the work it was being asked to do, tying part of its compensation to performance goals such as hitting specific sales lift targets. That helped the agency win the business, says Greg Paull, president of global growth for MediaSense, a firm that matches advertisers with agencies. “Showing that they are putting skin in the game has not been a hallmark of that holding group,” he said.”
