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Google strengthens its research program on the impacts of AI on the economy, bringing in Nobel laureate Philippe Aghion and other economists

Google is expanding AI & Economy Research Program with new senior researchers – economist Philippe Aghion (Nobel Prize in economics 2025) as an advisor, Ajay Agrawal as a Visiting Fellow, and Anu Madgavkar together with Daniel Rock as directors of research into the impacts of AI on work and productivity.

What you get out of it

Research from the program should gradually provide more specific data on how AI is changing individual occupations and labor productivity, which may eventually influence personal career decisions as well, but for now this is only an announcement of new research leaders.

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Meta context AI agents

Instinct and Muse from Meta added the ability to call businesses on behalf of users

The assistants Instinct (Instinct Concierge) and Meta Muse can now call businesses on behalf of users – reservations, cancellations, complaints. Both features are in early access; meanwhile, Instinct is in funding talks at a valuation of 10 billion dollars, and Muse reports 730 000 downloads in its first days.

What you get out of it

Users of these assistants will be able to have an AI agent call on their behalf – for example, to book a restaurant, join a waiting list at the dentist or handle a complaint with a cable TV provider – currently only in early access.

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AI character Tilly Norwood from Particle 6 Group fails on current issues in a journalist’s test

The company Particle 6 Group made the AI character Tilly Norwood available for interviews with journalists and paid video calls (16–19 September, 14–25 USD). A journalist from Wired found that it answers evasively on current issues, including with the phrase “all lives matter”.

What you get out of it

Anyone considering paying to interact with a similar AI persona (e.g. a paid video call) can, according to the test, expect evasive, media-trained answers with no substantive content on current issues rather than a meaningful conversation.

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Google announced DevFest 2026 focused on developing and securing AI agents

Google and the Google Developer Groups network announced DevFest 2026 – over 800 community events in 115 countries from 1 October to 31 December 2026, focused on practical work with Gemini, Google AI Studio and Google Antigravity under the theme of secure AI agent development.

What you get out of it

Developers and novice creators can gain practical experience with Gemini, Google AI Studio and Google Antigravity tools at local DevFest 2026 events through codelabs, workshops and so-called agent-athons focused on secure and scalable development with AI agents.

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Terence Tao: rapid AI solutions to open problems threaten the tradition of open science

Mathematician Terence Tao warns that even a rumor of work on an open scientific problem now triggers a massive AI effort that outpaces the original research – he says this threatens to end the tradition of openly sharing scientific research directions.

What you get out of it

Researchers could begin to hesitate to share promising lines of inquiry before completing the work themselves, because, according to Tao, even a rumor that someone is working on a problem can now trigger a massive AI effort that beats them to it.

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Startup Fambot launches an AI assistant for managing family administration

Startup Fambot has launched a beta version of an AI “chief of staff” assistant for families that connects email, a calendar and WhatsApp groups and offers a daily overview of tasks. The company raised 3.5 million dollars in pre-seed funding, and the app is currently free for iOS, Android and the web.

What you get out of it

Parents with children can connect the app to email, a calendar and WhatsApp groups and receive a daily overview of tasks and upcoming events, potentially saving time otherwise spent going through messages and reminders from school or extracurricular activities.

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The decline in the Unitree share price after the IPO reveals the early stage of physical AI

Shares in Unitree, valued at 66 billion dollars at the IPO, lost roughly half their value. According to industry experts, physical AI is still at an early stage comparable to the GPT-2 era, lacking high-quality training data and reliable commercial applications for general-purpose robots.

What you get out of it

For professionals following robotics and physical AI, the sources suggest that narrowly focused deployments (construction, industry, autonomous vehicles) are closer to practical use than general-purpose humanoid robots, which still remain mainly in laboratories.

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AI-generated photographs of animals undermine the credibility of real content on social media

Scammers use AI-generated photos of lost animals to trick people into paying money, and according to Wired, AI slop is flooding social networks to such an extent that even the credibility of real organizations such as We Animals is suffering.

What you get out of it

When reports of a lost animal being found include a request for money, it is advisable to check the photograph carefully (blurred text, background inconsistencies) and, if appropriate, use verification tools available in ChatGPT, Gemini or Meta AI, albeit with limitations.

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Google context AI agents

Google launches vertical AI agents for the financial and legal sectors, lagging behind competitors

Google launched Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services and Legal with more than 50 specialized skills and connectors to financial and legal systems. According to analysts, this is an effort to catch up with a trend started a year ago by Anthropic and OpenAI.

What you get out of it

For individual lawyers and financial analysts, this means the possibility of accessing new AI skills directly within existing workflows without having to switch platforms — if the systems they use connect to Gemini Enterprise.

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Journalist Casey Newton criticizes Zuckerberg’s optimistic manifesto on superintelligence

Journalist Casey Newton (Platformer) criticizes Mark Zuckerberg’s essay on superintelligence for overlooking risks, including job automation. He compares superintelligence to a dragon – a visible but hard-to-imagine power.

What you get out of it

The text points out that optimistic public statements by AI company leaders about superintelligence may not reflect the real risk of its impact on jobs, which, according to the author, the industry tends to downplay.

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Anthropic and AWS: an Agent Skills suite for creating and managing Automated Reasoning policies in Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning Blog described a suite of six Agent Skills (an open format from Anthropic) for creating, testing, debugging and deploying Amazon Bedrock Automated Reasoning policies from a coding agent. They can be used in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Kiro; rules are written in SMT-LIB and verified mathematically…

What you get out of it

A developer working with Amazon Bedrock can install the Agent Skills suite in their coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Kiro) and have it guide them through the entire cycle of creating, testing and deploying an Automated Reasoning policy.

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The "Summer Club" brand trip held by OpenAI drew criticism over AI energy use, jobs and targeting women

OpenAI held its first influencer brand trip, "Summer Club", at the Wildflower Farms resort. Critics attacked the energy consumption of AI, the threat of job losses and the predominance of young women among those invited. Reaction videos received over 500 thousand views.

What you get out of it

Influencers and content creators considering a paid partnership with an AI company risk intense public criticism whose reach may significantly exceed the viewership of their own posts.

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