Microsoft’s Humanist Superintelligence: Building AI That Serves Humanity - Microsoft is redefining the race toward superintelligence—not as a quest for limitless AI power, but as a mission to ensure technology remains in service to humanity. Suleyman frames the effort around a fundamental question: What kind of AI does the world really want?

Perplexity Upgrades Comet Assistant With Smarter Web Actions & Multi-Tab Control - Four months after debuting Comet, Perplexity has launched a major upgrade that turns its popular AI assistant into a more capable, agentic partner across the web. Learn what’s new.

AI stocks head for more than $800 billion in losses this week - Stocks were poised to end a three-week winning streak on Friday as investors grew cautious over the soaring valuations of artificial intelligence companies. The Nasdaq is on track for its weakest performance since April’s global market sell-off, triggered by former President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. Adding to the unease, two major Wall Street CEOs warned that a broader market correction may be approaching.

DeepSeek researcher pessimistic over AI's impact in startup's first public appearance since success - Asked about DeepSeek's global success and how its open-source approach would encourage the progress of AI, Chen said he believed that AI could be a great aid to humans as it improved over the short term, but that it could threaten job losses in 5-10 years as it becomes good enough to take over some of the work humans perform. "I'm extremely positive about the technology but I view the impact it could have on society negatively."

Microsoft built a fake marketplace to test AI agents — they failed in surprising ways - The researchers found several techniques businesses could use to manipulate customer agents into buying their products. The researchers noticed a particular falloff in efficiency as a customer agent was given more options to choose from, overwhelming the attention space of the agent.

Amazon offers AI translation for self-published Kindle books - Amazon is making it easier for self-published authors to release their ebooks in multiple languages with Kindle Translate, a new AI translation tool that launched in beta that can translate between English and Spanish and from German to English.

Go to Perplexity and search naturally: "Are there any patents related to AI automations?" - Perplexity automatically activates Patent Research (beta), showing relevant filings, owners, and dates

Refine with conversational queries: "Find active patents for AI-driven industrial automation and model drift detection", then follow up with "Summarize main claims" or "Show whitespace in this field"

Toggle on Agent Mode for advanced analysis - the AI automatically retrieves patents from multiple jurisdictions, creates tables, and builds visualization charts (showing "12 steps completed")

Review generated PNG charts showing patent clusters and risk zones, plus CSV files with patent IDs, titles, owners, and claims - identify which companies dominate and where opportunities exist

Use results to inform product design by identifying saturated areas to avoid, high-opportunity/low-risk zones for innovation, and specific technologies or claims requiring caution

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