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AI Weekly News - ChatGPT Agent, Math Gold Medal, Platform Wars
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AI Weekly News - ChatGPT Agent, Math Gold Medal, Platform Wars

Autonomous agents, cognitive leaps, strategic battles, and governance in flux.

Join us on The Before AGI Podcast for your essential AI News Digest. This week, the era of agentic AI arrives with OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent, while an unreleased OpenAI model wins a gold medal at the International Math Olympiad, signaling a leap in abstract reasoning. The industry is in a "stack war," highlighted by Meta's $14.8B investment in Scale AI and Google's plan to merge Android and ChromeOS into an AI-native platform.

In this episode, you'll gain insights into:
🤖 Agentic AI Arrives: OpenAI and AWS launch autonomous AI agents; Google's "BigSleep" AI proactively stops a cyber threat.
🧠 Superhuman Reasoning: AI winning a math olympiad and achieving 4x human accuracy in medical diagnosis (Microsoft's MAID-XO).
⚔️ Platform & Stack Wars: Meta's move on Scale AI, Google's Unified OS, and Huawei's vertically integrated AI stack create a new competitive landscape.
⚖️ Governance Accelerates: The EU AI Act enters enforcement, the US rejects a federal moratorium on state laws, and the UN pushes for practical standards.
💡 Human Ingenuity's Edge: A human programmer defeats a top OpenAI model, showcasing the enduring power of creative thinking.

This deep dive connects the dots on a week of breathtaking advances and the critical strategic and regulatory shifts shaping the future of AI.

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TOOLS MENTIONED:

  • OpenAI ChatGPT Agent

  • AWS Bedrock Agent Core

  • Google BigSleep AI

  • OpenAI Large Language Model (IMO winner)

  • DeepMind AlphaGo

  • Microsoft MAID-XO

  • Scale AI

  • Google Gemini AI / Gemini 2.5 Pro

  • Huawei Ascend Series Chips / CANN / Pangu Models

  • OpenAI Sora

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