Every time I get a press release about AI agents, I get a slightly queasy feeling. It is not quite as bad as that dizzy feeling I get every time someone insists on pitching me about vibe coding, nor is it the nails on a chalkboard feeling I get every time a PR rep sends me something with the word "convo" in it when asking for an interview or discussion with one of their clients. Even so, AI agents are overhyped, under-defined, possibly dangerous, and extremely limited; they could possibly spell the end of life as we know it. And yet everyone is all about agents. Microsoft did a series of announcements last week that promoted its extensive use of AI agents, not just for the enterprise, but for every Windows user.

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OpenAI has filed a countersuit against Elon Musk, accusing him of staging press attacks and malicious campaigns on "the social media platform he controls," as well as of making "harassing legal claims" and a "sham bid for OpenAI's assets." In its filing, courtesy of TechCrunch, the ChatGPT-maker said Musk could not tolerate seeing such "success for an enterprise he had abandoned and declared doomed" and had made it his own project to take down the organization. It also said that Musk's efforts have ramped up in recent months after it announced its plans to restructure and become a for-profit entity with a non-profit division. Last year, Musk sued OpenAI, accusing it of ditching its nonprofit mission, becoming a "closed-source de facto subsidiary" Microsoft and of violating its foundational agreement to develop generative AI "for the benefit of humanity." But Musk, OpenAI said in its new lawsuit, is only pretending to represent the public and in truth is seeking to stop it from restructuring.

"All the moving images featured in the video are the result of me feeding in a still image and then typing in a'prompt' such as: 'The black & white figure remains still whilst the bus in the background drives off', which led to [a] sequence where the coach weirdly slides towards the cut-out of me," said Cocker. "The weekend I began work on the video was a strange time: I went out of the house and kept expecting weird transformations of the surrounding environment due to the images the computer had been generating. "The experience had marked me. I don't know whether I've recovered yet." After completing the video, the musician said he'd landed firmly on the side of "human intelligence" over AI.

Existing generative tools can automate a striking range of creative tasks and offer near-instant gratification--but at what cost? Some artists and researchers fear that such technology could turn us into passive consumers of yet more AI slop. And so they are looking for ways to inject human creativity back into the process: working on what's known as co-creativity or more-than-human creativity. The idea is that AI can be used to inspire or critique creative projects, helping people make things that they would not have made by themselves. The aim is to develop AI tools that augment our creativity rather than strip it from us--pushing us to be better at composing music, developing games, designing toys, and much more--and lay the groundwork for a future in which humans and machines create things together.

It's 2025, so it should be no surprise that another organization has sold its soul (entered into a licensing deal with an AI company) for an undisclosed sum. A new partnership allows UK-based Synthesia to access Shutterstock's content library for training its latest AI model, EXPRESS-2. This deal isn't the first of its kind for Shutterstock, which previously teamed up with OpenAI to sell stock images made using AI generator DALL-E 2. Synthesia creates avatars for corporate videos about topics such as cybersecurity and good communication at work. It aims to use Shutterstock's video data to "try out new approaches that will improve the performance of EXPRESS-2, and increase the realism and expressiveness of our AI generated avatars, bringing them closer to human-like performances.," Synthesia stated in a release. Typically, Synthesia uses actors to create avatars, paying to use their likeness for three years.

The former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams is considering legal action against Meta because it may have used his books to train artificial intelligence. "Meta has used many of my books without my permission. I have placed the issue in the hands of my solicitor," he said. Sinn Féin said in a statement on Wednesday that the titles included its former leader's autobiography, Before the Dawn; a prison memoir, Cage Eleven; reflections on Northern Ireland's peace process, Hope and History; and other memoirs, a cookbook and a short story collection. Adams is the latest author to join a backlash against the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

At the Department of Veterans Affairs, a senior official warned employees in an email that virtual meetings were being secretly recorded. Anyone dissatisfied with Donald Trump's decisions should be careful about voicing their opinions, the official cautioned. Over at the state department, IT staff said new monitoring software has been loaded onto computers. Some staffers have started using white noise machines in their offices, or have even turned on an office breakroom sink, to muffle conversations in case there might be any hot mics within range. A supervisor at one water management organization that works closely with the Environmental Protection Agency sent a warning to staffers that their meetings and phone calls with the agency were being monitored by an artificial intelligence tool.

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