AI Governance

Opening — Why this matters now Foreign exchange markets have always enjoyed a certain illusion of efficiency: trillions in daily volume, institutional dominance, and a near‑mythical reputation for being unforecastable. And yet, as systematic trading quietly absorbs more niches of discretionary decision‑making, one question keeps resurfacing: Is Forex genuinely uncrackable, or have we simply been looking with the wrong instruments? ...

Opening — Why this matters now AI research agents are having a moment. With every new benchmark topped and every fresh claim of “autonomous scientific discovery,” it’s becoming harder to tell which systems are genuinely improving and which are just getting better at polishing the same old tricks. As enterprises rush to build internal research agents—often with more ambition than design discipline—the question emerges: what actually separates a good AI research agent from a mediocre one? ...

Why This Matters Now The AI world is becoming increasingly obsessed with agents—agents that play games, navigate the web, answer your emails, and (occasionally) run your crypto portfolio into the ground. But while their language skills are flourishing, their physical intuition remains… juvenile. A model may eloquently describe the parabola of a projectile while simultaneously walking a digital avatar straight into lava. ...

Opening — Why this matters now The AI world has developed a habit: we benchmark agents on clean, curated, bite-sized tasks and then act surprised when these same agents flounder in environments that look even mildly like reality. The gap between performance on isolated RL benchmarks and the messy, interconnected complexity of the real world is becoming too obvious to ignore. ...

Opening — Why this matters now DeFi is no longer the experimental playground it was in 2020. It is an always-on, adversarial, liquidity-saturated environment where billions move across autonomous code. Yet beneath this supposed transparency lies a human opacity problem: we still don’t know why people perform the transactions they do. The chain is public; the intent is not. ...

Opening — Why this matters now Artificial intelligence is no longer content with taking your job; it now wants to publish in your favorite journal. If 2024 was the year enterprises raced to bolt LLMs onto every workflow, 2025 is the year science itself became an experiment — with AI as both the subject and the researcher. ...

Opening — Why this matters now The AI ecosystem is shifting from clever parrots to agents that can sustain long‑horizon workflows. Yet even the flashiest models stumble on the simplest human expectation: remembering what happened five minutes ago. Statelessness remains the enemy of reliability. Memory-R1 — introduced in a recent paper from LMU Munich and collaborators — pushes back against this brittleness. Instead of stuffing longer prompts or bolting on static RAG pipelines, it proposes something far more interesting: reinforcement-trained memory management. Think of it as teaching a model not just to recall, but to care about what it chooses to remember. ...

Opening — Why this matters now The multimodal AI arms race is no longer about who can see more pixels or generate prettier sketches. It’s about whether models can think across modalities the way humans do—fluidly, strategically, and with the right tool for the moment. Most systems still behave like students who bring one pen to an exam: capable, but painfully limited. The newly proposed Octopus framework—with its six-capability orchestration—suggests a different future: one where a model doesn’t just hold tools, but chooses them. It’s a quiet shift with big implications for enterprise automation. ...

Opening — Why This Matters Now The age of AI-powered learning assistants has arrived, but most of them still behave like overeager interns—confident, quick, and occasionally catastrophically wrong. The weakest link isn’t the models; it’s the structure (or lack thereof) behind their reasoning. Lecture notes fed directly into an LLM produce multiple-choice questions with the usual suspects: hallucinations, trivial distractors, and the unmistakable scent of “I made this up.” ...

Opening — Why this matters now Extreme weather, brittle infrastructure, and decentralised energy markets are converging into one perennial headache: when the power goes out, restoring it is neither quick nor cheap. Utilities increasingly rely on automation and AI assistance, but most existing systems buckle under the messy, nonlinear physics of real distribution networks. Restoration isn’t just an optimisation puzzle — it’s an orchestration of microgrids, generators, constraints, and switching actions that cascade through the system. ...