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Last episode, we covered Microsoft’s unified AI vision, Bezos’s return, the first fully autonomous cyber attack, and Gemini 3.
This week: Wall Street says AI = productivity (and likely job cuts), Microsoft unveils $23B in new AI investments with a big India focus, the EU opens an antitrust probe into Google’s AI search, U.S. teens are basically living in chatbots—and Micron bows out of consumer storage.

📚 Topics Covered

Banks & AI: productivity gains now, staffing impacts next (JPMorgan, Wells, Citi, PNC, BofA)

$23B Microsoft investment: India front-and-center for infra, skilling, and enterprise AI

EU vs. Google AI Search: antitrust probe into AI Overviews / AI-mode distribution

Teen usage snapshot: ~3 in 10 U.S. teens use AI chatbots daily; safety UX matters

Chips watch: Micron reportedly exits consumer storage to chase AI memory margins

Research Watch: human-AI hybrid teams beat fully autonomous agents on complex work

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The future of AI isn't coming, it's already here. This week we cover four major stories that prove we've crossed a critical threshold: AI is no longer just a tool. It's an autonomous actor.

From the first documented AI-orchestrated cyberattack to Jeff Bezos betting $6.2 billion on "physical AI," this episode will make you rethink what's possible, what's dangerous, and what's coming next.

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THE HACKER THAT WASN'T HUMAN
Anthropic detected and stopped the first large-scale cyberattack executed almost entirely by AI agents. A Chinese state-sponsored group weaponized Claude to conduct reconnaissance, write exploits, and harvest credentials—making thousands of requests per second. Human operators only intervened at 4-6 critical points. The AI age of cybersecurity is here.

BEZOS IS BACK
Jeff Bezos is returning to operational leadership with Project Prometheus—the most well-funded early-stage AI startup ever at $6.2 billion. Unlike the chatbot wars, Prometheus is focused on "AI for the physical economy": aerospace, automotive, and advanced manufacturing.

MICROSOFT'S MASTER PLAN
Ignite 2025 revealed Microsoft's vision: Work IQ + Fabric IQ + Foundry IQ = a unified intelligence layer for agentic AI. Plus a massive $30B Anthropic partnership bringing Claude across the entire Microsoft ecosystem.

GOOGLE GEMINI 3
Generative interfaces that build custom UIs on-the-fly. Gemini Agent for autonomous task execution. Google Antigravity as a full agentic development platform. State-of-the-art coding benchmarks. Google isn't playing catch-up anymore.

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This week on Tech 4 Thought, we zoom in on platform power and the new agent battlegrounds. We break down Microsoft & OpenAI’s restructured deal, Amazon vs. Perplexity over AI shopping agents, why AI browsers are raising security alarms, and what we learned speaking and hanging out at Community Summit / PPCC.

📚 Topics Covered:
• Microsoft–OpenAI restructure: why removing the capped-profit constraints matters, how a public-benefit corp fits with a ~$500B valuation, and what unlimited fundraising means for the AI race
• Platform power & agents: does OpenAI’s new flexibility tilt the field for Anthropic, Google, Meta, and everyone else?
• Amazon vs. Perplexity (Comet): legal threats over an AI that shops on your behalf, terms of service vs. user choice, and who owns the checkout funnel
• Liability in AI shopping: when an agent buys the wrong thing (or gets scammed), who’s actually on the hook—the platform, the agent, or the user?
• AI browsers as a security threat: Atlas, Comet, and friends; prompt-injection, spoofed sidebars, token theft, and why agents dramatically expand the attack surface
• What safe AI browsing should look like: sandboxing, scopes, identity separation, and minimum controls before you let an agent near your logins or wallet

Conference Corner – Community Summit / PPCC:

• Multi-agent orchestration and how real teams are trying to use it
• Sahib and Chris speaking at a summit with 5,000+ people, and Chris’s talk on governance
• LinkedIn hype cycles: “low-code/no-code is dead” vs. what’s actually happening on Power Platform
• How to get buy-in from slow or non-adopters of AI in general
• Tribal knowledge & change management: when crucial know-how lives in people’s heads instead of SOPs

💬 Reactions, takeaways, and hot takes from the whole Tech 4 Thought crew—plus honest thoughts on whether we’re heading toward a healthy agent ecosystem or just a bigger, riskier platform lock-in.

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