Is AI Really Thinking and Reasoning — or Just Pretending to?

The best answer — AI has “jagged intelligence” — lies in between hype and skepticism.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/400531/ai-reasoning-models-openai-deepseek

As Tech Companies Keep Pouring Money Into AI, Signs May Be Pointing to Disaster

Fourth quarter earnings season is in full swing, and despite budgets larger than some countries' GDPs, big tech companies' financial statements are looking grim.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/tech-investment-ai

Allstate Is Demanding That We Delete These Quotes by Its Exec About Using How It's Using AI to Write Insurance Emails

We were struck this week when the Wall Street Journal reported that Allstate, a major insurance company, had largely handed over the task of writing claims emails over to an AI system.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/allstate-demanding-delete-quotes-ai

OpenAI Researchers Find That Even the Best AI Is "Unable To Solve the Majority" of Coding Problems

OpenAI researchers have admitted that even the most advanced AI models still are no match for human coders — even though CEO Sam Altman insists they will be able to beat "low-level" software engineers by the end of this year.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/openai-researchers-coding-fail

Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup’s demo goes viral

A demo from Optifye.ai, a member of Y Combinator’s current cohort, sparked a social media backlash that ended up with YC deleting it off its socials.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/25/y-combinator-deletes-posts-after-a-startups-demo-goes-viral/

New study identifies differences between human and AI-generated text

A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers set out to see how accurately large language models (LLMs) can match the style of text written by humans. Their findings were recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-differences-human-ai-generated-text.html

The Important Difference Between Agentic AI And AI Agents

If you’ve been reading about business technology recently, then “AI agents” and “agentic AI” are terms you’ve probably come across with increasing frequency.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2025/02/25/the-important-difference-between-agentic-ai-and-ai-agents/

The Insurmountable Problem of Formal Reasoning in Large Language Models

Today we are going to talk about reasoning models and their capabilities. Anthropic the makers of Claude, have released this week a new ‘hybrid reasoning’ AI model.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.ai-supremacy.com/p/the-insurmountable-problem-of-formal

If You Ask AI Who You're Married To, You May Spit Out Your Coffee

As the Wall Street Journal pointed out this week, there's a reliable way to make even the most advanced AI go completely off the rails: ask it who someone is married to.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/ai-chatbot-hallucinations-marriage

Anthropic Launches the World’s First ‘Hybrid Reasoning’ AI Model

Claude 3.7, the latest model from Anthropic, can be instructed to engage in a specific amount of reasoning to solve hard problems.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-world-first-hybrid-reasoning-ai-model/

Like it or not, AI is learning how to influence you

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More When I was a kid there were four AI agents in my life. Their names were Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde and they tried their best to hunt me down.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://venturebeat.com/ai/like-it-or-not-ai-is-learning-how-to-influence-you/

OpenAI Researchers Find That Even the Best AI Is "Unable To Solve the Majority" of Coding Problems

OpenAI researchers have admitted that even the most advanced AI models still are no match for human coders — even though CEO Sam Altman insists they will be able to beat "low-level" software engineers by the end of this year.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/openai-researchers-coding-fail

AI risk – as trust in generative AI grows, the Great Forgetting has begun

In the 1960 movie The Time Machine, based on the 1895 novella by H.G. Wells, a Victorian inventor travels to the distant future. There, he finds a civilization of beautiful young men and women called the Eloi, living peacefully in an Eden-like world.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://diginomica.com/ai-risk-trust-generative-ai-grows-great-forgetting-has-begun

https://neuron.expert/news/ai-tool-diagnoses-diabetes-hiv-and-covid-from-a-blood-sample/11113/en/?utm_source=perplexity

ORIGINAL LINK: https://neuron.expert/news/ai-tool-diagnoses-diabetes-hiv-and-covid-from-a-blood-sample/11113/en/?utm_source=perplexity

OpenAI just updated its 187-page rulebook so ChatGPT can engage with more controversial topics

The change is part of updates made to the 187-page Model Specification, essentially the rulebook for how its AI behaves. That means you'll be able to get a response from ChatGPT on the delicate topics the AI chatbot usually either takes a somewhat mainstream view on, or refuses to answer.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/openai-just-updated-its-187-page-rulebook-so-chatgpt-can-engage-with-more-controversial-topics