Welcome back to The FAIK Files!
In this week's episode:
- Quantum computing is accelerating fast
- Professors staffed a fake company entirely with AI agents (spoiler: chaos)
- Microsoft is adding native AI agent support to Windows - what could go wrong?
- The Chicago Sun-Times accidentally printed an AI-generated summer reading list with books that don't exist
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******* NOTES AND REFERENCES *******
Post-Quantum Cryptography:
AI Agent Company Disaster:
Microsoft Adding MCP to Windows:
Chicago Sun-Times AI Reading List Fail:
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The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
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