AI Agents News: Breakthroughs and Reality Checks

AI Crosses Major Threshold OpenAI's Sam Altman announced a big milestone: AI systems can now beat humans at hard intellectual tasks. Here's the timeline: small scientific discoveries by 2026, major breakthroughs by 2028. The cost of intelligence drops 40x per year. Researchers say this is 80% progress toward AI that discovers things on its own.

Financial Company Launches Working AI Agent Shinyoung Securities rolled out the first AI agent in the securities industry. It monitors sales conversations to catch missing disclosures automatically—something that just checking keywords can't do. The system learned from 14,000 hours of real financial conversations.

AI Takes On Aviation Safety Joby Aviation paired up with Nvidia to run AI safety systems on electric air taxis using Nvidia's new IGX Thor processor.

Important Reality Check Google's new Veo-3 AI makes shockingly realistic surgical videos, but it doesn't actually understand medical procedures. This shows even advanced AI agents copy patterns without grasping real meaning. Don't trust AI with critical work unless it truly understands the domain.