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The question of whether artificial intelligence is a bubble is moving from tech forums into the boardrooms that matter most. IBM and the CEO of Norway's sovereign wealth fund — one of the largest investment pools on the planet — sat down to wrestle with exactly that question. When the people managing trillions of dollars start asking it publicly, the answer carries real weight.
Meanwhile, a quieter but potentially more consequential development is unfolding in AI research itself. A company called Recursive is publishing early work on automating the research process that builds AI systems. If machines can meaningfully assist in their own development, the pace of change we've seen so far could look slow by comparison. Early days, but worth watching closely.
And in a story that proves legacy code never truly dies, a Danish developer digging through old BSD software has uncovered a fresh instance of the Y two K bug — the same date-handling flaw the world scrambled to fix a quarter century ago. It surfaced inside an emulator for vintage PDP minicomputers, a reminder that old assumptions get buried in old code and occasionally claw their way back to the surface.
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