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The conversation around artificial intelligence is getting a sharper edge this week. A piece in Fast Company argues that the real fight over AI has nothing to do with the technology itself — it's about who gets to control it. Power, access, and institutional authority are the actual stakes, and that framing changes how we should be reading almost every AI headline right now.
Closely connected to that is a wave of academic and independent writing on agentic AI — systems that don't just respond but act, plan, and pursue goals autonomously. One essayist is asking an uncomfortable question: when we build AI that seeks to complete objectives, are we accidentally encoding something that looks a lot like a drive for power? It's early thinking, but the kind worth sitting with.
And on a considerably more grounded note, Google's Pixel eleven landed this week to a collective shrug. Wired calls it a minor upgrade — accomplished, polished, but short on reasons to get excited. It's a familiar story in smartphone hardware: the gains are real but invisible, and the industry is still searching for its next genuine leap forward.
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