Personal AI agents will increasingly perform shopping tasks. Agentic commerce: buying and arranging things online through an AI agent that can search, compare and take action on a user's behalf. Drafting an email, writing a LinkedIn post, coming up with a recipe for whatever’s left in the fridge. For a lot of people, that has become perfectly ordinary in a very short time. The next step is AI that actually does things for you. Buying a train ticket, switching to a cheaper energy supplier,...

A summary of Amodei's proposal to slow down Ai development Something strange is going on in Silicon Valley. The people who build the most powerful AI models in the world are publicly asking whether someone could please hit the brakes. This weekend I got to talk about it on Nieuwsuur, the Dutch current affairs programme. Below I answer the questions I get most often, in a bit more detail. What happened? How big is the risk according to the builders themselves? What is actually being proposed?...

You have an AI chatbot write a piece of text, copy it into an email and send it off. What you don't see: the phrasing of that text may contain an invisible pattern that reveals AI was involved. Such a pattern is called a watermark. A watermark in AI text is an invisible statistical pattern that the language model leaves behind in its own word choices. Since 2 August 2026, the European AI Act has required providers of generative AI to mark AI-generated content in a machine-readable way....