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Perplexity is giving its AI agent something most software lacks — a memory that actually learns. The company's new Brain layer watches what its Computer agent does, notes what worked and what flopped, then runs an overnight process to make future tasks faster and cheaper. It's a quiet but meaningful step toward AI that improves through experience rather than just raw compute.
The human side of AI is messier. Wired is reporting serious dysfunction inside Meta's newly formed AI unit, where employee morale was already shaky and internal friction has pushed it lower still. It's a reminder that assembling a world-class AI division isn't just a hiring problem — it's a culture problem, and right now Meta appears to be struggling with both.
On the regulatory front, Europe's crypto market is approaching a reckoning. The grace period under the MiCA framework is closing, and only a fraction of registered firms have secured full licenses. That gap almost certainly means consolidation ahead — smaller players squeezed out as the rules that were always coming finally arrive.
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