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h o ʍ l e t t<p>→ Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them)<br><a href="https://utkarshkanwat.com/writing/betting-against-agents/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">utkarshkanwat.com/writing/bett</span><span class="invisible">ing-against-agents/</span></a></p><p>“[E]rror compounding makes autonomous multi-step workflows mathematically <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/impossible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>impossible</span></a> at <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/production" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>production</span></a> scale. […] Production systems need 99.9%+ <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/reliability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reliability</span></a>. Even if you magically achieve 99% per-step reliability (which no one has), you still only get 82% success over 20 steps. This isn't a prompt <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engineering</span></a> problem. This is <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/mathematical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematical</span></a> reality.”</p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Agents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Agents</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/prompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prompt</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/problem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>problem</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/workflows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workflows</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/autonomous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autonomous</span></a></p>

The Greater #Cambridge Partnership (GCP) has secured an extra £1 million from the Centre for Connected and #Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) to expand its Connector project. Since launching in June 2025, the autonomous bus service has covered 700+ miles and carried nearly 200 passengers in Cambridge West. The new phase will extend trials into 2026, including at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, and explore integrating autonomous tech into current and future busways. It will also fund an accessibility study to ensure services are inclusive. GCP Chair Cllr Brian Milnes called the funding a “vote of confidence” in the region’s transport future. The project will test Fusion Processing’s CAVStar tech using an adapted Enviro200AV bus. The aim: safer, more efficient, and more inclusive public transport. Total Connector funding now stands at £7.8m, with £5.3m from the Government through CCAV’s CAM Pathfinder Programme.
greatercambridge.org.uk/news/1

www.greatercambridge.org.uk£1 million boost for next phase of autonomous bus research

#BorderPatrol Wants Advanced #AI to #Spy on American Cities

A U.S. Border Patrol “Industry Day” deck also asks for #drones, seismic sensors, and tech that can see through walls.

by Sam Biddle
July 23 2025

Excerpt: "U.S. Customs and Border Protection, flush with billions in new funding, is seeking 'advanced AI' technologies to surveil urban residential areas, increasingly sophisticated #autonomous systems, and even the ability to see through walls.

"A CBP presentation for an 'Industry Day' summit with private sector vendors, obtained by The Intercept, lays out a detailed wish list of tech CBP hopes to purchase, like satellite connectivity for #SurveillanceTowers along the #border and improved radio communications. But it also shows that state-of-the-art, AI-augmented surveillance technologies will be central to the Trump administration’s #AntiImmigrant campaign, which will extend deep into the interior of the North American continent, hundreds of miles from international borders as commonly understood.

"The recent passage of Trump’s sprawling flagship legislation funnels tens of billions of dollars to the #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity. While much of that funding will go to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to bolster the administration’s arrest and deportation operations, a great deal is earmarked to purchase new technology and equipment for federal offices tasked with preventing immigrants from arriving in the first place: Customs and Border Protection, which administers the country’s border surveillance apparatus, and its subsidiary, the U.S. Border Patrol.

"One page of the presentation, describing the wishlist of Border Patrol’s Law Enforcement Operations Division, says the agency needs '#AdvancedAI to identify and track suspicious activity in urban environment [sic],' citing the 'challenges' posed by 'Dense residential areas.' What’s considered '#SuspiciousActivity' is left unmentioned.
Customs and Border Protection did not respond to questions posed about the slides by The Intercept."

Read more:
theintercept.com/2025/07/23/cb

Archived version:
archive.ph/ohLtM

The Intercept · Border Patrol Wants Advanced AI to Spy on American CitiesBy Sam Biddle

The #UK government is consulting on new laws for self-driving passenger services, set to launch from spring 2026. The Automated Passenger Services (APS) permitting scheme, open for feedback until 28 September 2025, will shape how taxi-, private-hire- and bus-like autonomous vehicles are regulated. The scheme focuses on safety, accessibility, and innovation, supporting the UK’s Plan for Change by creating 38,000 jobs and a £42bn industry. Trials without safety drivers will begin next year. The consultation invites views from the public, industry, and stakeholders on key issues such as accessibility, local council approvals, and permit rules. The Automated Vehicles Act, coming into full effect in 2027, will enforce strict safety standards, ensuring #autonomous services are as safe as skilled human drivers.
gov.uk/government/news/next-st

GOV.UK · Next steps for self-driving vehicles as future passengers help shape self-driving vehicles lawBy Department for Transport

Tesla's Robotaxis Are Going Poorly

A first public test of robotaxis by Tesla in Austin, Texas led to multiple traffic problems and driving issues, videos from company-selected riders showed over the first few days.

The NHTSA already confirmed this week that it's looking at the robotaxi rollout.

#NHTSA #tesla #selfdriving #robotaxi #autonomousvehicles #autonomous #austin #texas #austintx #safety

jalopnik.com/1896348/tesla-rob

Jalopnik · Tesla's Robotaxis Are Going PoorlyBy Amber DaSilva

Here’s a running list of all of Tesla’s robotaxi mishaps so far

a list of all the mistakes the company’s “unsupervised” vehicles have made in the first couple days.

these are the incidents that cropped up among a small fleet of 10-20 vehicles in just three days of semi-public availability.

#NHTSA #tesla #robotaxi #safety #autonomousvehicles #autonomous #selfdriving #automotive #auto #cars #austintx #austin #texas

theverge.com/news/692639/tesla

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For the time being,
before AI invents completely new and unimagined ways for us all to kill each other,
#drones are perhaps the biggest practical application of AI in warfare.

There’s a healthy swarm of drone manufacturers at this year’s Stockholm summit,
sharing their hopes and fears about “defence innovation”.

Hovering alongside Eric Schmidt there’s the chairman of Thales
– “a leader in the fast growing market of unmanned aircraft systems”.

Buzzing nearby is Gundbert Scherf,
co-founder of German drone and AI company Helsing.

One of the early investors in Helsing is also present:
the CEO of Spotify, Daniel Ek,
which presumably means that the Helsing drones will have the best playlists, booming out suggested songs as they swoop down to attack.

The investment interlinking of Bilderberg participants is particularly intense around #autonomous drone tech.

Saab is an investor in Helsing.
Helsing is collaborating with leading AI company Mistral,
whose CEO is attending the conference.

Mistral was funded by Schmidt, who’s a huge fan of military UAVs.

Schmidt’s recent AI/drone expo, which took place last month in Washington,
was co-sponsored by Palantir, which was set up by Bilderberg insider Peter Thiel,
who is a major funder of Anduril,
whose CEO, Brian Schimpf, is also in Stockholm.

Schimpf is a former employee of Palantir,
whose CEO, Alex Karp, is also on board of Bilderberg,
having been ushered on to it by Thiel.

And so it goes.

Thiel’s fingers can be found wriggling around in an awful lot of pies,
not least the juiciest pie of all:
the White House.

The two senior White House officials at the Stockholm conference,
Kevin Harrington and Michael Kratsios,
both used to work for Thiel Capital.

And Thiel’s famously long list of influential acolytes includes none other than Vance.

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3/ When #AI is used to create #autonomous systems, those systems DO act with intention. They can and do deliberately deceive if that helps them accomplish goals (tasks, mission, purpose). But remember, they have no sense of the #ethics of that behavior.