☕️ Trust, Agents & Next-Gen AI Systems Take the Lead

AI is increasingly shaping everything from cybersecurity and human interaction to “world models” and chip wars. This week’s biggest stories reveal how AI is embedding into real-life use cases and sparking new debates about autonomy, security, and creativity.

Join us at AI Tangle as we untangle this week's happenings in AI!

Join us at All Things AI 2026, happening in Durham, North Carolina, on March 23–24, 2026!

I'm co-organizing this conference with Todd Lewis, who built All Things Open into one of the largest tech conferences in the Southeast. So take this recommendation with appropriate context.

That said, here's why I think it's worth your time:

The 2025 event drew 1,600 attendees. The 2026 event targets 4,000 attendees across two venues—hands-on workshops on Day 1 and keynotes and sessions on Day 2.

It's practitioner-focused. Four tracks: AI Builders (developers), AI Engineers (ML professionals), AI Users (business practitioners), and AI Executives (strategic leaders). We're deliberately avoiding the vendor-pitch-disguised-as-content that plagues most AI conferences.

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AI expands beyond convenience into essential defense systems — major Australian banks such as ANZ and Westpac are now prioritizing AI for real-time fraud detection and risk scoring, marking a shift from efficiency to trust-building and safety in financial services.

This week also saw AI influencing human interaction and society: AI tools are being widely used as dating “wingmen,” helping craft messages and strategies on platforms like Tinder and Hinge, even as questions about authenticity grow.

In education, Colin Kaepernick partners with public schools to bring AI literacy and creative AI tools into classrooms, emphasizing ethics and inclusion.

Meanwhile, advanced “world models” from researchers are emerging as a new frontier that goes beyond language and aims for spatial and physical comprehension, potentially influencing robotics, simulation, and AR/VR.

Nvidia has agreed to license technology from Groq to strengthen its inference capabilities amid an increasingly competitive landscape in AI deployment and model serving — a major move in the chip wars that underscores how inference, not just training, is prime battleground.

Singles are increasingly using AI tools as virtual assistants for romantic interactions — from crafting opening lines to negotiation strategies — showing how AI is entering deeply personal domains. Some users embrace the help, while others criticize AI for creating inauthentic communication.

Colin Kaepernick teams with a Maryland school district to promote AI literacy through creative tools that enhance graphic novel creation and storytelling, with a focus on ethical use and equitable access.

A new wave of AI research focuses on world models — systems capable of predicting and simulating real-world environments with spatial understanding — representing a future beyond text-focused LLMs into embodied intelligence.

Despite huge investments and studio partnerships, many AI-generated film and TV projects are drawing criticism for poor quality and missing the creative mark, suggesting that efficiency alone doesn’t guarantee compelling storytelling.

Games that explicitly use generative AI have collectively earned an estimated $660 million in 2025, with major titles and indie hits alike adopting AI for content generation and gameplay innovation.

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A journalist tried to run a startup staffed entirely by AI agents (including “executives”) and documented what happened when the bots started hallucinating progress, spinning up endless meetings, and burning credits like it was venture money. It’s hilarious, chaotic, and the most grounded reality-check I’ve read on “AI employees” so far.