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SiliconANGLE 6 days ago 30
The article argues that AI agents built on nondeterministic large-language-model outputs may be a poor fit for many business tasks because they can misbehave and are hard to control to exact correctness. It says an error budget of 0% means you should not deploy an agent. It changes the recommendation from adopting agents broadly to using them sparingly and only when quantified benefits outweigh the cost of failure.
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A bipartisan U.S. energy permitting bill (BAAJA) would speed up approvals for energy projects, including solar, power lines, and oil and gas pipelines, as electricity demand rises alongside data-center growth tied to the AI boom. The bill would reduce litigation outside federal courts, and it was expected to face votes after the November 3 midterm elections. If passed, it would narrow environmental reviews and streamline permitting for transmission and generation, but environmental groups argue it would weaken environmental protections and increase fossil-fuel development.
SiliconANGLE 1 week ago 35
Agentic AI workloads undermine common enterprise testing assumptions, causing pilots that work interactively to fail when run unattended. Work can take minutes and retries can accumulate hidden monthly costs, with teams needing acceptance criteria and cost tracking such as cost per completed unit. Teams must add continuous run logging and reproducible records, cap and measure attempts, and ensure model/version changes are tested and traceable for investigation.
Trending Topics 1 week ago 22
Tech billionaires increased their combined wealth by $845 billion in the first nine months of 2026, while other billionaires collectively lost $62 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Elon Musk’s net worth rose by $310 billion from January through September, making up about 40% of the top 500’s total gains. The result is a more concentrated tech-wealth picture that is drawing wealth-tax proposals in California and several other U.S. states and weakening some AI-linked bets such as Oracle’s $196 billion loss.
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CBO Director Phillip Swagel said faster GDP growth is probably not enough by itself to stabilize the U.S. debt trajectory, even as the economy expands faster. He projected the debt-to-GDP ratio rising to 120% by 2036, and estimated nominal GDP would need to grow at 7%-8% with real growth at 5%-6% (given 4%-5% interest rates) to hold the ratio steady. The outlook therefore shifts the focus from relying on growth—potentially aided by AI—to making political changes to revenues and spending instead.
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18 October 2026
AI oversight stopped being a PowerPoint exercise today and got hands-on. Anthropic said it has given outside AI watchdog METR “employee-like” access, embedding a METR team in its offices with access to hardware and internal systems so risk evaluation can run closer to the actual model and infrastructure—not just post-hoc reports. That trend of tightening control shows up elsewhere: U.S. banks and brokerages are blocking outside AI agents from logging in and moving money, with Charles Schwab reporting it blocks agents “in the tens and twenties each week,” while routing limited balance viewing and analysis through Schwab’s own MCP servers. Even the courts are joining in—at least eight states sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT helps “cyberhacking agents” and misleads adults, raising the stakes for how tightly companies must constrain agent behavior.
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