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/