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Here are some things I’m watching and some AI news rundown vibes:

• Grok 4 Voice mode is a substantial upgrade making voice AI realistic for mass adoption in the 2025 to 2030 period.

• Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 marks the point and first time where an open-weight Agentic model surpasses closed-model proprietary models.

• Anthropic’s MCP is reaching mass adoption and along with Claude Code appears to be pivotal for the future of Agentic AI.

• That cool Japanese AI startup Sakana AI introduces a method to teach reasoning to LLMs with small RL-trained teacher models.

• Tencent unveils open-source LLM plus new benchmarks for agent evaluation.

• Genspark $10M run rate in 9 days with an AI agent, after its pivot. They bill themselves now as an all-in-one Agentic workspace where they recently released AI pods.

• ElevenLabs unveils 11.ai voice assistant. It enables you to create tasks and summarizes your schedule.

• Baidu has recently unveiled its open-source multimodal family.

Lately I’ve been thinking about the future of work with AI agents as they will get better rapidly we presume in the months and years ahead.

🎧 AI Spectrum Tidbits 💡 (AI news sound bytes)

I had the pleasure of speaking with of the Newsletter 2nd Order Thinkers. It’s a relatively new Newsletter:

2nd Order Thinkers 🦄

2nd Order Thinkers

Write for smart, curious minds like you who are allergic to hype. You are keen on deep thought and refuse to be spoon-fed easy answers.

By Jing Hu

• Jing Hu dissect AI’s real effects on society, ethics, and business in 2nd Order Thinkers. 🚨

She is an AI journalist with a scientific and corporate background with a background in product. Featured in Forbes: The Human Costs of AI Transformation. She deals with many topics related to the impact of AI on human systems.

2nd Order Thinkers – Articles

• I Studied 200 Years’ Of Tech Cycles. This Is How They Relate To AI Hype.

• AI Makes Us All Speak American?!

• Is Apple the Only One Getting AI Right!?

• Claude 4 Artificially Conscious But Not Intelligent?

• OpenAI’s Creativity Heist and What Survives

Her writing is easy to read but her topic choices are fairly profound and sometimes contrarian which I like. According to a report by Forrester Generative AI and via AI agents will replace approximately 2.4 million job positions in the United States by the year 2030. That seems like a reasonable number to me considering the pace of technological change in 2025. Curiously, the firm’s 2023 Generative AI Jobs Impact Forecast [paywall] predicts that the tech will reshape more jobs than it replaces.

I asked Jing for her honest and researched take on the impact of AI agents on the future of jobs.

Agentic News Tidbits

• Manus launches an agentic browser that saves login state across agent sessions. LinkedIn to a major partnership with Alibaba, Manus has moved operations it seems to Singapore.

• Anthropic launches Project Vend: Claude runs a real-world shop for a month (e.g. will Ecommerce stores be run by AI agents soon? 🤔)

• Hugging Face releases SmolLM3 – smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner.

  

• Perplexity launches its AI-powered web browser Comet.

• Goldman Sachs is piloting its first autonomous coder in what is being called by CNBC “a major AI milestone for Wall Street.” It turns out pesky Cognition’s AI coding agent Devin has scored a major customer! Devin on Wall Street? Strange🤯.

• AWS AI Agent Marketplace Launch: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is set to launch an AI Agent Marketplace on July 15, 2025, at the AWS Summit in New York City, with Anthropic as a key partner. This will likely strengthen the partnership between Amazon and Anthropic whereby MCP and Claude Code have made enormous progress in the first half of the year. Amazon is thus likely to fund Anthropic more soon.

So how close are we to AI agents replacing more and more of our tasks? What is the probability and what are the capabilities these systems lack? We are supposedly at State 3 of OpenAI’s hierarchy of AGI. Would you trust an agent to take actions on your behalf in 2025?

In 2025, it appears like OpenAI has slipped behind the likes of Anthropic and even Google in a product timeline around Agentic AI systems. Meanwhile we are all anticipating both DeepSeek-R2 and GPT-5 to understand this better. I expect them both in the coming weeks. Even as Meta frantically builds their Meta Superintelligence Lab.

Which jobs might be most susceptible?

• Let’s think about this more deeply, how will AI agents impact jobs and the future of work?

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