TAI #162: The Agentic Era of AI: From IMO Gold to Real-World Work with ChatGPT Agent
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie LLMs crossed the 100‑minute reasoning horizon this week while AI developments also showcased the incredible potential of frontier models, the aggressive competitive race to …
Will you Spot the Leaks?
Author(s): Marco Hening Tallarico Originally published on Towards AI. Illustration from ChatGPT Not another explanation You’ve probably heard of data leakage, and you might know both flavours well: Target Variable and Train-Test Split. But will you spot the holes in my faulty …
Grammar as a Trojan Horse to Computer Science
Author(s): Marco Hening Tallarico Originally published on Towards AI. I understand that grammar might bring back some bad memories — words crossed out in red, ruler to the wrist, or a blank stare in the face of “preposition”. To a grammarian, this …
Exploring the Power of Small Language Models
Author(s): Sunil Rao Originally published on Towards AI. AI Generated In the rapidly evolving landscape of Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs) have captivated the public imagination with their remarkable capabilities in understanding and generating human-like text. From crafting creative content to …
PsychScope: An AI-Powered Microscope for the Mind
Author(s): Kareem Soliman Originally published on Towards AI. Instruments of Understanding — Part 2 of 3 Image generated by Google Gemini The promise of artificial intelligence has always been linked to the promise of a better future. For psychology, this means a …
MCP: The Flip Side of the USB-C Analogy
Author(s): Peilun Li Originally published on Towards AI. The USB-C Analogy of MCP (Image: Norah Sakal) The tech industry has widely embraced the analogy of MCP as the “USB-C for AI agents,” and for good reason. As consumers, we can seamlessly connect …
Will AI Take Your Job — or Give You Your Life Back?
Author(s): Taha Azizi Originally published on Towards AI. Close your eyes for a moment. Picture this: It’s 2040. The humming of unseen algorithms is the soundtrack to our lives. On one side of the city, gleaming skyscrapers house the elite: the architects …
I Asked an AI if It Was Conscious. The Answer Broke My Reality.
Author(s): Kareem Soliman Originally published on Towards AI. A journey into the heart of the machine that revealed more about consciousness, reality, and ourselves than I ever thought possible. Image generated by Whisk Prologue: A Vision in 2020 Five years ago, long …
Will AI Replace “Your” Job?
Author(s): Sophia Banton Originally published on Towards AI. Created by Sophia Banton in collaboration with Google Whisk. Same desk. Same data. One is uncertain. One is optimized. As AI becomes both doer and thinker, the future of work is quietly being rewritten. …
TAI #163: AI Unlocking History’s Secrets; Deepmind’s Aeneas Continues A Recent Trend
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week, Google put the scale of the recent LLM adoption takeoff into perspective, revealing that Gemini processed 980 trillion tokens in June 2025. …