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Scenario prompt 18 July 2025
The prompt for the weekend is AI agents reshaping marketing. Completely transparent value chains. No brand loyalty. No human intervention. AI recommending and completing purchases for consumers.
The other scenario prompts for today are microbots, robot metabolism, Bayer, AI, the future of change, brain implants, autonomous farming and you are the upgrade.
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Scientists develop method to build tiny custom microrobots
https://www.colorado.edu/chbe/scientists-develop-method-build-tiny-custom-microrobots
Researchers have created a new way to build and control tiny particles that can move and work like microscopic robots, offering a powerful tool with applications in biomedical and environmental research.
AI agents are reshaping marketing—here’s how brands can respond
https://adage.com/opinion/aa-how-marketers-must-adapt-to-ai-agents-driving-purchases/
Emerging agentic AI technologies are on the brink of revolutionizing purchasing behavior. Imagine intelligent agents acting as autonomous personal shoppers, recommending and even completing purchases for consumers with minimal human intervention.
Robots now grow and repair themselves by consuming parts from other machines
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-07-robots-consuming-machines.html
“Robot Metabolism,” enables machines to absorb and reuse parts from other robots or their surroundings.
Bayer’s Bold Bet: How a 160-Year-Old Giant is Liberating 100,000 People
160 years old. 100,000 people. A bold ambition to reinvent its traditional management hierarchy. I
AIs Are Talking to Each Other in a Language of Their Own. No One Knows What They’re Saying.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a65289681/ai-chatbots-secret-language/
What seems like a chilling sign of rogue AI is more common than you think. Here’s what’s going on.
The future of change: what companies need to hear now
https://www.bbntimes.com/companies/the-future-of-change-what-companies-need-to-hear-now
Why Traditional Change Models Are Failing
Inside the Secret HQ of One of Neuralink’s Biggest Competitors
https://www.pcmag.com/articles/synchron-neuralink-competitor-brain-computer-interface-hq-tour
Brain implants are a burgeoning field that is little understood but is flush with cash. Neuralink has more than $1 billion in funding and raised a fresh round of $650 million in June. Synchron has a $385 million valuation and counts Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos as investors
Drones, AI and Robot Pickers: Meet the Fully Autonomous Farm
https://www.wsj.com/tech/autonomous-farming-ai-95657bd1
New technologies are paving the way for farms that can run themselves, with minimal human input
You are the upgrade
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
