In The Loop The Top Four AI Trends & Predictions Of Summer 2025
Aug 7, 2025
This summer, the AI landscape is evolving dramatically. Ambient agents are becoming essential, enhancing user experiences with long-term memory. Meanwhile, the 'pay-per-crawl' model disrupts the traditional web content system, impacting smaller publishers. Wall Street is treating computing power like a precious commodity, fueling a new gold rush for GPU futures. Websites are now being designed primarily for AI agents, not humans, signaling major shifts in technology and user interaction.
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Digital Economy Assumptions Are Shifting
- Jack Houghton says core digital economy assumptions are being challenged this summer.
- These shifts connect AI agents, data monetization, compute markets, and product design into one transformation.
Ambient Agents Run Continuously
- Ambient agents run event-driven in the background and act on data streams.
- Jack Houghton explains they store long-term context to relate events and take actions.
Naming Meta Agents
- Jack Houghton recounts planning to call them 'meta agents' before seeing the same idea emerge elsewhere.
- The team shifted to 'ambient agents' as the concept spread widely.