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Exclusive: UiPath's age of agentic automation

1 week ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. The software world just got a major agentic upgrade with enterprise automation leader UiPath’s latest announcement. The company unveiled a new platform for agentic automation that expands the role of digital workers beyond routine tasks — and towards intelligent AI agents that can reason, adapt, and collaborate in more human-like ways.
China declares AI independence

2 weeks ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. Chinese president Xi Jinping just hit the accelerator on a ānational systemā to build home-grown chips, software, and AI talent ā with no U.S. supply chain required. With rumors of breakthrough domestic chips and a potential second 'DeepSeek moment' approaching, the U.S. lead in the AI race may be tighter than ever.
Anthropic questions AI consciousness

2 weeks ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. Anthropic just took the AI consciousness debate from science fiction to serious research — launching a new program to develop frameworks for assessing potential model welfare. With their own researcher estimating a 15% chance that models are already conscious, are we nearing the existential debate on whether digital minds deserve ethical treatment?
New AI startup wants to automate everyone

3 weeks ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. The AI automation conversation just got uncomfortably direct — with Epoch co-founder Tamay Besiroglu launching Mechanize, a startup with the explicit goal of replacing human workers entirely. But with job losses already mounting and user trust in AI still lacking, getting the masses on board with the utopian dream of abundance from mass automation may be tougher than expected.
Anthropic maps AI's moral compass

3 weeks ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. Anthropic just pulled back the curtain on AI morality — revealing the first-ever map of Claude's real-world values based on hundreds of thousands of actual conversations. With AI systems increasingly shaping our decisions (and now even legislation), cracking the alignment code behind models’ moral compass has never been more important.
Gemini 2.5 Flash 'thinks' on a budget

4 weeks ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. The AI reasoning revolution just got a lot more affordable — with Google launching its new Gemini 2.5 Flash in preview with performance rivaling top models at significantly lower costs. With a toggle to control when thinking kicks in and a “budget” for balancing quality, speed, and cost, could this be the model that finally scales reasoning to the masses? P.S. — our next workshop is TODAY at 4 PM EST.
OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini arrive

4 weeks ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI just released o3 and o4-mini, two new reasoning models that president Greg Brockman called a “GPT-4 level qualitative step into the future.”With o3 pushing SOTA across all benchmarks and supposedly capable of creating new scientific ideas, is this the leap that finally puts the AI world at AGI’s doorstep?
Ilya's SSI skyrockets to $32B

1 month ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. Former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever just reportedly raised another massive round for his AI startup, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), catapulting its valuation to $32B in mere months. But with no product in sight—just a bold vision for superintelligence and Sutskever's reputation—is this the most audacious bet yet in the AI funding frenzy, or a glimpse of Silicon Valley's new normal?
ChatGPT now remembers everything

1 month ago | therundown.ai | TikTok Bytedance |Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI just gave ChatGPT a massive memory boost, enabling it to automatically remember and reference key information across all your conversations without being asked. Is this persistent memory the breakthrough that finally turns ChatGPT into the truly personalized AI assistant we've been waiting for?
OpenAI's dev-focused GPT-4.1

1 month ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI has “a lot of good stuff” lined up this week, according to Sam Altman—and its first release is a step back…in name only. A newly launched GPT-4.1 (?) family features million-token context windows, improved coding abilities, and significantly lower prices across the board — potentially laying a new foundation for the fast-approaching era of agentic AI development.