Interaction-Oriented Programming (IOP) is an approach to building a multiagent system by modeling the interactions between its roles via a flexible interaction protocol and implementing agents to realize the interactions of the roles they play in the protocol. In recent years, we have developed an extensive suite of software that enables multiagent system developers to apply IOP. These include tools for efficiently verifying protocols for properties such as liveness and safety and middleware that simplifies the implementation of agents. This paper presents some of that software suite.

Holistic health expert and bestselling author Deepak Chopra shares a message of hope as his latest book, "Quantum Body," is published: "We have a common identity. Bestselling author and entrepreneur Deepak Chopra may be known the world over as a holistic health and wellness guru -- he's counseled scores of people to lead better, calmer and healthier lives over the decades -- but he also has a lighter side. In an on-camera interview this week just as his new book, "Optimum Body: The New Science of Living a Longer, Healthier, More Vital Life," was published, Chopra poked a little fun at himself when asked how he takes care of personal well-being. "Well, my family doesn't take me seriously, and that's good," he said. "And so," he said, "I don't take myself seriously." Chopra went on about how he personally stays healthy. "I sleep well," he said. And my only purpose is to serve the world. I don't have any personal ambition. And that means no stress, either."

In the shade of a coconut palm, Chandrika tilts her smartphone screen to avoid the sun's glare. It is early morning in Alahalli village in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, but the heat and humidity are rising fast. As Chandrika scrolls, she clicks on several audio clips in succession, demonstrating the simplicity of the app she recently started using. At each tap, the sound of her voice speaking her mother tongue emerges from the phone. Before she started using this app, 30-year-old Chandrika (who, like many South Indians, uses the first letter of her father's name, K., instead of a last name) had just 184 rupees ($2.25) in her bank account. But in return for around six hours of work spread over several days in late April, she received 2,570 rupees ($31.30). That's roughly the same amount she makes in a month of working as a teacher at a distant school, after the cost of the three buses it takes her to get there and back. Just by reading text aloud in her native language of Kannada, spoken by around 60 million people mostly in central and southern India, Chandrika has used this app to earn an hourly wage of about $5, nearly 20 times the Indian minimum. And in a few days, more money will arrive--a 50% bonus, awarded once the voice clips are validated as accurate. Chandrika's voice can fetch this sum because of the boom in artificial intelligence (AI). Right now, cutting edge AIs--for example, large language models like ChatGPT--work best in languages like English, where text and audio data is abundant online.

Cloud, says Neetan Chopra, is one of the foundational enablers of any enterprise transformation or disruption. Chopra is the chief digital and information officer at IndiGo, India's largest passenger airline. Prior to joining Indigo earlier this year, he held similar technology and digital roles at Dubai Holding and Emirates Airlines. A transformation, he says, means speed and velocity. It means business model experimentation.

Devron, a pioneering data science software company, has raised $12 million in an oversubscribed Series A financing round, led by leading investment firm Tiger Global and with participation from existing investors FinTech Collective, Afore Capital, and Essence Venture Capital. The company will use the funds to accelerate adoption of its innovative machine learning platform that enables businesses and governments to extract actionable insights from enterprise-wide, distributed data. "Devron's technology has the potential to alter the data science and AI landscape," said John Curtius, Partner at Tiger Global. "We are impressed with what Devron has accomplished in a short period of time and its ability to enable companies to efficiently and effectively derive greater value from more of their data." The Devron platform sets a new industry standard by allowing clients to unlock more data faster, wherever it resides.

Rohit Chopra has seized on nearly every public opportunity as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to admonish companies about the potential misuse of artificial intelligence in lending decisions. Chopra has said that algorithms can never "be free of bias" and may result in credit determinations that are unfair to consumers. He claims machine learning can be anti-competitive and could lead to "digital redlining" and "robo discrimination." The message for banks and fast-moving fintechs is loud and clear: Enforcement actions related to the use of AI are coming, as is potential guidance tied to what makes alternative data such as utility and rent payments risky when used in marketing, pricing and underwriting products, experts say. "The focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning is explicit," said Stephen Hayes, a partner at Relman Colfax PLLC and a former CFPB senior counsel.

Purdue University scientists are using machine learning models to create new options for drug discovery pipelines. One-step multicomponent reaction with interpretable machine learning innovation to develop chemical library for drug discovery. Machine learning has been used widely in the chemical sciences for drug design and other processes. The models that are prospectively tested for new reaction outcomes and used to enhance human understanding to interpret chemical reactivity decisions made by such models are extremely limited. Purdue University innovators have introduced chemical reactivity flowcharts to help chemists interpret reaction outcomes using statistically robust machine learning models trained on a small number of reactions.

Genies, the virtual avatar company that makes digital cartoon-style versions of celebrities, can now count Camila Cabello, Paris Hilton and Priyanka Chopra as its latest investors, the company tells Rolling Stone. The three women are part of Genies' previously closed $65 million funding round led by venture capitalist Mary Meeker, and Genies CEO and founder Akash Nigam says they represent a portion of the round earmarked for female investors, as Genies looks to be more inclusive in both its investment and company makeup. Cabello, Hilton and Chopra signed on quickly as the funding round closed within two weeks, and Nigam says Hilton in particular gravitated toward Genies, given her focus on the crypto space and Genies' place within selling NFTs. All three will have their own Genies developed as well. Genies develops digital avatars that have artists' likenesses -- and those avatars help advertise and sell digital wearables and collectables fans can buy, typically as crypto-backed NFTs.

A version of this article also appeared in the It's Not Just You newsletter.Sign up here to receive a new edition every Sunday. My first job with TIME was to set up new communications systems and convince cranky foreign correspondents to trust them. Alexa and Google Home have colonized my apartment. And not only did I give my DNA to 23andMe, but I even answer their follow-up questions about whether I like olives or get carsick so they can map those genes. So you can imagine how very excited I was when Fitbit and other wearable health trackers, including Amazon's Halo and the Apple Watch, started coming up with ways to show us data on our stress levels. There's a bevy of new devices that monitor not just our heart rate, daily steps, and the quantity of our sleep, but the quality of our sleep by hour, skin temperature, and fluctuations in our blood oxygen saturation.

In the months leading up to the pandemic, 73 year old best-selling author Deepak Chopra uploaded his "consciousness" to the AI Foundation to ensure he would be around to chat with future generations. Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, and venture capitalist Cyan Bannister did the same. Now they see a future filled with personalized AI for all. In an interview with Chopra, the meditation guru told me his goal is to help a billion people with his AI. Stone messaged that he is training his AI to tell jokes as it has been speaking at conferences for him, and Bannister lets her AI vet founders' pitches.