AI Headlines This Week: Power, Fairness, and Heat

Hey everyone 👋

The AI world feels like one long debate right now, about who owns innovation, who defines ethics, and who keeps the servers from melting.

Here are the biggest shifts this week:

🔥 1 | Perplexity vs Amazon – “Corporate Bully” or Customer Protector?

Amazon sent a legal notice to Perplexity to block its Comet shopping agent from buying on Amazon. Perplexity fired back, accusing Amazon of “using legal threats to block innovation.” This showdown could shape how AI agents are allowed to act on behalf of humans across the open web.

👑 2 | Fei-Fei Li Receives the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

The godmother of AI was honoured by King Charles III for creating ImageNet; the dataset that helped machines “see.” She’s the only woman among seven AI pioneers recognised this year. Her speech called for “science-based, pragmatic conversations” about AI’s future.

🧠 3 | Microsoft’s “Magentic Marketplace” Where AI Agents Lie, Cheat, and Learn

Microsoft built a simulated market to test how AI agents buy, sell, and negotiate. Results? They got overwhelmed, misled each other, and struggled to collaborate. It is a fascinating (and slightly terrifying) peek into how AI behaves when it meets its own kind.

⚙️ 4 | AI Infrastructure Heats Up — Literally

Engineers are racing to cool GPUs that run nonstop model training. New liquid-metal systems promise efficiency boosts and fewer melted servers.

💭 AI this week is about power: who owns it, who shares it, and who overheats it first. What do you think?

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