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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44335133

March 11, 2026

Iran's military on Wednesday vowed to strike US and Israeli banks and economic centres in the region, after overnight attacks hit a bank in Tehran.

"Last night, the American and Zionist terrorist army, after failing in their military objectives, targeted one of the country's banks," a spokesperson for the military's central operational command, Khatam al-Anbiya.

"People in the region should not be within a one kilometre radius of the banks."

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Executive Summary

Current StateAI is now embedded in many aspects of everyday life. Consumers already experience and interact with AI through search, recommendations, fraud detection, customer service and decision‑support tools that can save time and improve access to information. The rapid spread of generative AI – enabling natural language interaction – has accelerated this trend, bringing AI into direct, large‑scale engagement with consumers.

To date, however, AI adoption and its impact have been uneven and most consumer‑facing AI has operated as a tool: it supports decisions, while coordination, monitoring and action remain with the user.

Potential Future StateAgentic AI could drive a step change in how people use AI and its impact on their lives

Definitions vary but these include AI agents that can be instructed in natural language to achieve a goal autonomously, navigating some complexity in the environment, planning, coordinating, and taking actions – potentially across multiple services.

AI agents do not merely assist, they sense (perceive their environment), decide and act[1]. They go beyond generating responses to user queries and may:

  • Assess goals, break them into subtasks, and plan end-to-end workflows
  • Retrieve real-time data (that may include personal data) from other agents, databases and other services
  • Execute actions autonomously, such as making payments on behalf of the user
  • Store memory of past interactions to improve over time[2]

For businesses, this could unlock substantial productivity gains. For consumers, today’s chatbots may prove only a first step towards more capable personal agents – systems that anticipate needs and execute transactions on the user’s behalf.

If realised reliably at scale, this shift – from using tools to delegating outcomes – could materially change how people engage with markets and how value is created. The potential benefits for consumers are significant if the technology achieves reliability and is deployed responsibly. Agentic AI could reduce friction, improve personalisation and support better outcomes including potentially lower prices and tailored deals, including in complex markets.

By automating optimisation and follow‑through, AI agents could save people time, and reduce cognitive load, and potentially help consumers who face high engagement costs (including vulnerable consumers) participate in markets more effectively.

If all this drives stronger confidence and demand in consumer markets, there may be new opportunities for innovative businesses to enter and grow including new avenues for UK businesses to bring agentic apps and services to market.

At the same time, there are material risks. Greater autonomy for agents increases the consequences of errors, may heighten risks of manipulation and loss of consumer agency, and could lead to worse overall outcomes for consumers. People may be steered towards products and services that are more profitable but less suited to their needs, potentially paying higher prices. AI agents raise new questions about transparency, incentives and accountability and whether the current tools and frameworks that protect consumers are fit for purpose.

Without appropriate safeguards, agentic systems could undermine trust in AI and consumer markets rather than strengthen it, and this loss of trust and confidence in turn could inhibit positive innovation, investment and growth.

Direction of TravelThe technology and its deployment are at an early stage. Most implementations are relatively bounded and cautious, particularly in consumer‑facing contexts. Even so, interest and investment have risen sharply, driven by advances in models, falling deployment costs and early evidence of efficiency gains. Progress will depend on real‑world performance and on whether businesses and consumers develop sustained confidence in agentic systems.

Application of Consumer LawUK consumer law applies whether decisions are made by people or by AI. The CMA’s foundation model principles – particularly transparency and accountability – remain directly relevant, and the CMA has published guidance to help businesses using agentic AI to comply with consumer law. Businesses exploring the technology should focus on robust training of systems, monitoring, and refinement, supported by appropriate human oversight.

Realising the full potential of agentic AI will also depend on wider enablers such as smart data schemes, secure digital identity and strong interoperability standards – enabling consumers to adopt with confidence, switch between systems and exercise choice. The UK has an opportunity to position itself at the forefront of trusted agentic innovation, fostering a dynamic, competitive ecosystem that drives household prosperity, innovation, and growth.

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why don't the gestapo ever notice me?

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Original news is on improbable.com, written by the ceremony's founder Marc Abrahams.

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Further details about the up to 350 jobs losses expected at the CSIRO are likely to be announced this week.

A CSIRO scientist fears the cuts will harm Australia's ability to adapt and respond to climate change, but the science agency says that's not the case.

A union branch representing CSIRO scientists is calling for urgent funding to stop the job losses.

I hope some of you here have some ideas why our government would be doing this? Is it to follow the example of the US with its axing of many climate change related programs and institutions? Is it because these scientists are going to be supplanted by AI programs? I find this situation bewildering.

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WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) - As many as 150 U.S. troops have been wounded in the 10-day-old ​war with Iran, two people familiar with the matter told ‌Reuters on Tuesday.

The casualty figure has not been previously reported. Prior to Reuters' publication of the figure, the Pentagon had only disclosed eight U.S. personnel seriously injured.

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Can't wait for the virus that uses this to replace a windows install with a Linux install that's riced to look like windows. Will the normies even notice?

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The Queensland town of Winton has been certified as an International Dark Sky Community.

The town has committed to managing its light pollution and installed warm bulbs in its streetlights.

Winton Shire Council and tourism operators believe the certification will attract stargazers wanting to experience the natural night sky.

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At a glance, the passwords the LLMs created looked secure, much like those that a password generator might spit out. But that’s exactly where the problems arose: Although the AI-generated passwords appeared to be complex and safe to use for securing online accounts, they were actually quite predictable upon closer inspection.

All three LLMs exhibited clearly identifiable patterns in how they created these passwords. These patterns included repeated character strings, predictable password structure, frequent reuse of similar characters, clear biases toward certain numbers and letters, and even duplicate passwords in some cases. Although the AI-generated passwords looked random, they really weren’t. This could easily create a false sense of security if you were to use these predictable passwords for your online accounts.

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As missiles and drones began lighting up the sky over Dubai, many of the city's social media personalities became citizen journalists.

Regular programming about abs, real estate and cryptocurrency was replaced with frantic updates on Iran's latest attacks.

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Babies are so fucking terrifying in real life even when they just crawl you can't get away

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  • "the us is saving iran from evil government!!"
  • the us, having a history of fucking over literally every state they've dealt with, bombing hospitals and schools
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this mod goes insaneo style

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cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/44266132

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