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We will talk about agents. AI agents.

They will change the way how we do business, how we interract and even how we do our everyday lives.

Agents will build business.

Agents will organize your day.

Agents will fill up your fridge.

I will let that sit in here for a while, so we can imagine and build the future together one agent at a time...

WHAT'S AT STAKE TODAY ⚡

• Should AI help you get away with killing your spouse? 🔪🤖
• Waze adds new AI-powered features and customization updates 🗺️✨
• Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation 💰🦾
• Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US 🇮🇳💡
• The wildest allegations in Apple's trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI 🍎⚖️
• Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI ⚠️🤖
• Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again 💻🔄
• Video-generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B 🎬🚀
• Uber's product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn't want to be "everything for everyone" 🚗🏨

The debate over user-aligned AI and how far personal freedom should go.

Should AI help you get away with killing your spouse?

Here's a quick question: Should AI be trained well enough to help someone plan the perfect murder of their spouse? For most people, that's an easy no. Not exactly a hard call.

But not everyone sees it that way. Comma AI founder and notorious provocateur George Hotz recently stirred up the AI debate with a post challenging mainstream thinking on AI alignment and safety. His comments came in response to the AI 2040: Plan A policy paper from the AI Futures Project, which proposes that the world's researchers voluntarily slow down AI development for 14 years for the collective benefit of humanity.

Hotz isn't buying it. He pushes back hard on the idea that AI progress should be managed for the greater good, and he also argues that the so-called fast-takeoff scenario — where AI rapidly develops superhuman capabilities — doesn't hold up to scrutiny. On those points, he actually makes some reasonable arguments worth considering.

Where Hotz really goes off the rails, though, is in his vision of what truly "user-aligned" AI should look like. He compares it to a gun — a tool that doesn't complain or ask questions about how you use it. In his ideal world, a properly aligned AI would help you order meth-lab equipment and walk you through using it, no questions asked. He even claims he would die defending this principle, though it's difficult to imagine exactly how that scenario would play out.

There's actually something worth salvaging in the broader idea. Much of today's AI is built around large, centrally managed services like ChatGPT and Claude. That's partly due to the enormous cost of running cutting-edge models, and the fact that most users don't interact with AI frequently enough to justify a truly personal, locally hosted system. But as the technology matures, those barriers will shrink. The appeal of a more personal, locally controlled AI — one that genuinely works for you rather than for a corporation — is real and exciting.

The problem is that Hotz frames this entirely as a freedom issue, with no room for nuance. "We either live in a world with freedom or we don't," he writes. Freedom sounds great, obviously. But any functioning society involves more than just individual freedom — it requires balancing competing interests, maintaining accountability, and recognizing that your choices affect other people.

Anyone building mass-market technology products has to think about that broader picture. That includes taking seriously the interests of, say, the as-yet-unharmed spouses and family members of the world. An AI that cheerfully assists with any request, no matter how harmful, isn't a triumph of personal freedom — it's a liability for everyone else.

The freedom Hotz champions doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's made possible by collective systems — laws, infrastructure, social trust — that hold everything together. If everyone started using AI as a personal tool for unchecked self-interest, those systems would collapse quickly. As the saying goes, we live in a society.

That said, the idea of a locally run AI that genuinely advocates for its user — pushing back against corporate interests, protecting privacy, working transparently on your behalf — is genuinely compelling. It's a vision worth pursuing, just without the part where it helps you commit crimes.

The real challenge for AI development isn't choosing between total freedom and total control. It's finding the balance between building AI that truly serves individuals while still being part of a world where other people exist and matter too. That's harder than Hotz makes it sound — but it's the right problem to be working on.

Waze gets Gemini AI, personalized routes, and a new Motorcycle mode.

Waze adds new AI-powered features and customization updates

Waze is rolling out several AI-powered updates, including personalized navigation that learns your route preferences and suggests roads based on your trip history. Powered by Google's Gemini AI, users can now search for destinations conversationally, asking for nearby coffee shops, parking, or gas stations.

New features also include a Motorcycle mode offering biker-specific routing and hazard alerts, conversational road update reporting, and a "less chatty" mode that reduces voice interruptions during drives. Most features are live globally on Android and iOS.

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