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Today, we published a paper, “AI and the Future of Learning.” The paper outlines the opportunity of AI to reduce barriers to education and unlock human potential. It also addresses key questions like cognitive decline and cheating, and the need to build tools grounded in learning science.

Today I spoke at the Drucker Global Forum about “Trojan mice” vs. “Trojan horses.” Organisational change programmes often struggle to get results despite investment, careful planning & leadership commitment. Traditional "Trojan horse" initiatives (large scale pilot projects designed for eventual system-wide rollout) struggle against the complexity inherent in large systems. The alternative, "Trojan mice," offers a fundamentally different pathway: having many people across the system with the skills & agency to test out small, well-focused changes to address complex problems. The choice between Trojan horses & Trojan mice isn't about abandoning ambition or settling for incremental tinkering. It's about recognising that in big systems, distributed action by skilled people with agency nearly always achieves more than centrally controlled, large-scale programmes. By cultivating many changemakers across the system & creating conditions where small, focused experiments can flourish, we can unlock the collective intelligence & energy needed for systemic change. Three facts about Trojan mice: 1) They fail often, fail early, & learn greatly. The cost of failure occurs early in project timelines, rather than at launch when it's too late. This is in line with what @AmyCEdmondson calls "intelligent failure"—thoughtful experiments that result in useful learning & allow teams to move forward. 2) They capture what works in complex systems - local ownership, fast feedback, & momentum that scales organically. Because changes are small & focused, they can be genuinely owned by those implementing them, creating commitment rather than compliance. 3) Most organisations are built for consistency, not novelty. Trojan mice strategies bypass this structural resistance by building agency & capability throughout the system rather than concentrating change authority in a central team. I learnt about Trojan mice from Chris Bolton @whatsthepont: whatsthepont.blog/2020/02/09… #DruckerForum

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⚖️ Amazon has sued Perplexity alleging that Perplexity’s Comet browser runs an AI shopping agent that logs into Amazon with a user’s credentials, places orders, and browses while pretending to be a human, which Amazon says is a prohibited, covert automated access. Amazon’s core claim is that Comet disguises bot traffic as normal clicks, so Amazon’s systems cannot apply its bot rules, audit trails, or safeguards that normally kick in for automation. Amazon also says this automation enters private account areas, touches carts and checkout, and therefore creates security and fraud risk, because any script mistake or prompt misuse could buy the wrong item, ship to the wrong address, or expose sensitive data. Amazon argues the agent breaks site terms and bypasses controls that govern third-party tools, instead of using approved interfaces or clearly identifying itself as an automated agent. Amazon further claims the bot degrades the personalized shopping experience, because recommendations, pricing tests, and ranking are tuned for human behavior, not for rapid scripted requests. Amazon also says it told Perplexity to stop but the agent kept operating, which strengthens Amazon’s position that this is knowing unauthorized access. Perplexity’s defense is that the agent helps users comparison-shop and checkout on their behalf, with credentials stored locally, and that users should be free to pick their assistant even if Amazon dislikes the competitive impact. So the fight is about who controls the logged-in session, whether a browser-based AI can act as the user inside Amazon, and whether it must self-identify as a bot instead of masquerading as a person. --- theguardian .com/technology/2025/nov/05/amazon-perplexity-ai-lawsuit

RT @HelenBevan: Newly published research shows that taking calls & answering emails during “non-work” time can have negative consequences f…

Got a YouTube channel full of tech content? Published a course before? Come work with me (and a bunch of really smart people) at Anthropic. We're hiring a Tech Video Content Dev to push dev ed forward. You'll be responsible for creating a tremendous amount of video content to help devs understand AI. Right now we're looking for people who have a track record of published videos and courses in the tech space. job-boards.greenhouse.io/ant…

Full stack devs, SWEs, MLEs, forward deployed engineers, research engineers, applied scientists: we are hiring! Join us and tackle cutting-edge challenges including physical AI, time series, material sciences, cybersecurity and many more. Positions available in Paris, London, Singapore, Amsterdam, NYC, SF, or remote. jobs.lever.co/mistral

Looking for an amazing tech writer to join my org and write for Cash App. 100% remote. Spread the word! block.xyz/careers/jobs/49639…

Training LLMs end to end is hard. Very excited to share our new blog (book?) that cover the full pipeline: pre-training, post-training and infra. 200+ pages of what worked, what didn’t, and how to make it run reliably huggingface.co/spaces/Huggin…

📢 We're hosting the 5-Day AI Agents Intensive course with Google on November 10 - 14. This no-cost course is designed to help you explore the foundations and practical applications of AI agents. Registration closes tomorrow at 11:59pm PT: rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/g…

"Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning" PDF: nowak.ece.wisc.edu/MFML.pdf

Why the Indian passport is falling in global ranking bbc.in/4hIBwrI

NEW: 🇨🇳 Chinese company CATL is mass-producing its 1st sodium battery - China-Global South Project Experts were previously convinced that Sodium Batteries would not be viable until 2035. It has the same capacity and size as lithium, at 1/10th the cost, lasts 25 years, runs fine at -30°C, and highly safe. @RTSG_News

RT @HelenBevan: As leaders of change & learning, we should seek out & welcome feedback continuously as it gives us an opportunity to improv…

MIT's new State of AI in Business report went viral for claiming that 95% of enterprise AI projects fail. But the real story isn't that AI doesn't work — it's just big companies can't build it. On the @LightconePod, @garrytan, @harjtaggar, @sdianahu, and @snowmaker break down what the study really says, why in-house enterprise AI efforts keep stalling, and how startups are filling the gap with products that learn, integrate, and actually deliver value. 2:08 - The enterprise AI adoption gap and why the failure rate is high 3:32 - Even Apple can be bad at software 4:30 - Why getting enterprise software to actually work is so hard 11:08 - The Reducto case study 13:39 - The type of enterprise employee you should find as a founder 14:39 - Meet founders who’ve been acquired by enterprises 15:25 - Enterprise/startup tension and symbiosis

"Unless Islamabad can confront governance failures, regional inequalities and political mistrust, foreign policy gains will remain fragile. No... deal can substitute for a stable social contract within Pakistan itself." — #AJOpinion by Eric Shahzar ⤵️ aje.io/ll6ksp

Fixpoint (@gofixpoint) automates hiring vetted experts—doctors, lawyers, PhDs, coders, etc—for AI training data and evals. They handle sourcing and vetting so customers can focus on creating quality data and benchmarking AI. ycombinator.com/launches/Og8… Congrats on the launch, @dbmikus and @jakubonchain!

Get straight to building better AI. 💡 The People + AI Guidebook provides a step-by-step workflow to put people first, helping you make smarter decisions from project kickoff to launch and beyond. Integrate user-centered AI practices into your work today 👨🏽‍💻 → goo.gle/PAIR

The PyTorch for Deep Learning Professional Certificate is live 🔥 This certificate, led by Laurence Moroney (@lmoroney), teaches you how to build, optimize, and deploy deep learning systems using PyTorch, the most widely adopted deep learning framework of today. Through hands-on projects, you’ll create image classifiers, fine-tune pretrained models, and prepare optimized systems for deployment. You’ll work directly with tensors and training loops, apply computer vision and NLP using TorchVision and Hugging Face, design architectures like ResNets, Transformers, and Diffusion models, and prepare models for deployment with ONNX, MLflow, pruning, and quantization. The program consists of 3 courses: 📘 PyTorch: Fundamentals 📗 PyTorch: Techniques and Ecosystem Tools 📙 PyTorch: Advanced Architectures and Deployment Build the foundation that makes advanced AI possible. Start today 👉 hubs.la/Q03QMKJQ0

برادر ممالک، جنہیں طالبان حکومت مسلسل درخواست کر رہی تھی، کی درخواست پر، پاکستان نے امن قائم کرنے کے لیے مذاکرات کی پیشکش قبول کی۔ تاہم بعض افغان حکام کے زہریلے بیانات یہ ظاہر کرتے ہیں کہ طالبان حکومت میں انتشار اور دھوکہ دہی بتدریج موجود ہے۔ پاکستان واضح کرتاہے کہ اسے طالبان رجیم کو ختم کرنے یا انہیں غاروں میں چھپنے پر مجبور کرنے کے لیے اپنی پوری طاقت استعمال کرنے کی ہرگز ضرورت نہیں۔ البتہ طالبان رجیم کی اگر خواہش ہو تو تورا بورا میں ماضی کی شکست کے مناظر، جہاں وہ دم دبا کر بھاگے تھے، دوبارہ دیکھنا یقیناً اقوام عالم کے لئے ایک نیا دلچسپ منظر ہوگا۔ افسوس ہوتا ہے کہ طالبان رجیم صرف اپنی قابض حکمرانی برقرار رکھنے اور جنگی معیشت کو بچانے کے لیے افغانستان کو ایک اور تنازعے میں دھکیل رہی ہے۔ اپنی کمزوری اور جنگ کے دعوؤں کی کھوکھلی حقیقت کو بخوبی جاننے کہ باوجود وہ طبل جنگ بجا کر بظاہر افغان عوام مے اپنی بگڑتی ہوئی ساکھ بچانے کی ناکام کوشش کر رہے ہیں۔ اگر افغان طالبان پھر بھی دوبارہ افغانستان اور اس کے معصوم عوام کو تباہ کرنے پر مصر ہیں تو پھر جو بھی ہونا ہے وہ ہو۔ جہاں تکgrave yard of empires کے بیانیے کا تعلق ہے، پاکستان خود کو ہرگز empire نہیں کہتا، لیکن افغانستان، طالبان کی وجہ سے اپنے ہی لوگوں کے لیے ایک قبرستان سے کم نہیں۔ یہ کبھی سلطنتوں کا قبرستان تو نہیں رہا البتہ ہمیشہ بڑی طاقتوں کے کھیل کا میدان ضرور رہا ہے۔ پاکستان طالبان کے جنگجوؤں کو خبردار کرتا ہے کہ اپنے ذاتی فائدے کے لئے خطے میں بدامنی کے لیے جو کام وو کررہے ہیں، انہوں نے شاید پاکستانی عزم اور حوصلے کو غلط انداز میں لیا ہے۔ اگر طالبان رجیم لڑنے کی کوشش کرے گی تو دنیا دیکھے گی کہ ان کی دھمکیاں صرف دکھاوا ہیں۔ پاکستان اپنی سرزمین پر کسی بھی دہشت گردانہ یا خودکش حملے کو برداشت نہیں کرے گا اور کسی بھی مہم جوئی کا جواب سخت اور کڑوا ہوگا۔ طالبان رجیم کو چاہیے کہ اپنے انجام کا حساب ضرور رکھیں، کیونکہ پاکستان کے عزم اور صلاحیتوں کو آزمانا ان کے لیے بہت مہنگا ثابت ہوگا۔