Drawing on a wave of new studies, this piece examines whether AI stops children from learning and argues the answer hinges on how it is used. AI as a shortcut that outsources thinking undermines learning, while AI as a tutor that explains concepts and gives feedback can improve it. It covers a large natural experiment in China, a Turkish tutoring study, and practical takeaways that apply equally to adults using AI at work.
Day two of CoreWeave's Fully Connected conference brings together Parallel Web Systems CEO Parag Agrawal on agent-driven web infrastructure, SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel on AI cloud fragmentation and security, Formula One champion Jenson Button on team culture under pressure, and CoreWeave CEO Mike Intrator on financing, risk, and building an AI cloud from a New Jersey garage.
Terry Angelos of VGS and Alex Rampell explore how AI agents are moving from giving recommendations to completing purchases, and what payment infrastructure must change to support that shift safely. They cover network tokenization, the wallet wars, Stripe's walled-garden approach, the new agentic token standard, liability and delegated authority, merchant resistance such as Amazon's block, and how agents could reshape rewards, subscriptions, and customer relationships.
MIT FutureTech director Neil Thompson revisits his group's 2020 computational limits paper and discusses his newer research on how AI automates tasks across the economy, covering the crashing-waves versus rising-tides survey, adoption bottlenecks, fixed-cost economics, apprenticeship risks, AI safety, and the open versus closed model debate.
Martin Keen explains why bigger context windows can make AI agents less reliable. He introduces context rot, the four context failure modes of poisoning, distraction, confusion, and clash, and the context engineering fixes that work by removing information rather than adding it.
CoreWeave's Fully Connected 2026 Day 1 keynote centers on the AI loop of run, observe, curate, improve and evaluate, and the launch of CoreWeave Forge. It covers production agent operations, agent observability and RL rollouts, Vera Rubin NVL72 and the Vera CPU, and enterprise evaluation practices from Capital One, Caterpillar and Cognition.