AI Week in Review 26.01.17

Figure 1. Ralph Wiggum has recently been the talk of the AI coding developer community, as Vivek on X explains. The “Ralph loop” in Claude Code adds a “verify and try again” loop to agentic coding tasks. Many users found it remarkably useful for completing some agentic coding tasks, so the method has gone viral….

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“The sheer velocity of AI-driven threats makes human-in-the-loop a bottleneck rather

“Cybersecurity will be the first vertical to completely move from co-pilots to autonomous agents. The sheer speed of AI-based threats makes workflows involving humans a bottleneck rather than a protection,” said Yoni Osherov, general partner at Ouverture Capital, when asked which specific industry would be the first to fully trust AI with independent decision-making. “We…

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The Best Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Center Play You’ve Never Heard of for 2026

Microsoft and Google trust this company to ensure their data centers remain operational. You can’t build a data center without making sure it has reliable power. Without electricity, artificial intelligence simply does not work. This is why AI giants, notably Microsoft And Alphabet‘Google entrusts us Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP +1.91%) to help them develop their…

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Penn professors discuss artificial intelligence classroom policies, University initiatives

As classrooms continue to integrate artificial intelligence tools across campus, Penn professors spoke to The Daily Pennsylvanian about how they are adopting the technology without compromising the learning process. Penn first announced its university-wide AI policy in November 2023, which outlined formal guidelines for the use of generative AI and machine learning tools. While the…

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AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy

A joint essay with Daniel Thilo Schroeder and Jonas R. Kunst, based on a new paper on swarms with 22 authors (including myself) who just published in Science. (A preprinted version is hereand you can see WIRED’s coverage here.) Automated bots spreading misinformation have been a problem since the early days of social media, and…

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