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• 🛡️ Singapore Launches World’s First Agentic AI Framework

• 🧠 AI’s Emerging Impact on Memory and Attention

• 🌐 Chrome’s Gemini AI Turns Browser Into Agent

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🛡️ Singapore Launches World’s First Agentic AI Framework

Singapore unveiled the Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI at the World Economic Forum, calling for human accountability, technical controls, and transparency for autonomous AI agents.

🔍 What the Framework Requires

The framework defines “agentic AI” (systems that plan, reason, and act) and mandates risk assessments, limits on tools each agent can use, and explicit human-in-the-loop accountability. 

🛠️ Practical Controls & Enterprise Burden 

Organizations must implement technical guardrails (access controls, audit trails), transparency measures, and governance processes - raising compliance work but creating auditable deployments that reduce runaway or opaque agentic behaviour.

🌍 Global Implications & First-mover Power 

By publishing the world’s first agentic AI framework, Infocomm Media Development Authority and Josephine Teo position World Economic Forum as the launch stage, pressuring multinational firms and regulators to align on norms sooner.

🧠 AI’s Emerging Impact on Memory and Attention

The Deep View episode examines how AI, from memory-augmenting agents to attention-shaping feeds, could externalize human memory and rewire attention, posing cognitive and design trade-offs.

🔗 Externalization & Augmentation

AI can index, summarize, and proactively surface personal records, shifting recall from internal encoding to agentic retrieval. Startups and hardware makers are already building continuous-memory tooling.

⚠️ Cognitive Risks 

Relying on external recall risks shallower encoding and chronic task-switching: attention fragments under constant prompts and recommendations, reducing deep learning and high-stakes decision resilience.

🛡️ Design, Policy & Mitigations 

Solutions include attention-aware interfaces, configurable memory controls, transparent recall logs, and research-driven consent/retention standards. Regulators and labs should prioritise longitudinal cognitive studies now.

🌐 Chrome’s Gemini AI Turns Browser Into Agent

Chrome now embeds Gemini’s “Auto Browse” and a side panel, enabling the browser to autonomously perform multi-step tasks (research, bookings, form-fills) for AI Pro/Ultra subscribers.

🧭 Agentic Features & Workflow Gain 

Auto Browse navigates sites, fills forms, compares options, and chains multi-step flows inside a persistent Gemini side panel - reducing manual tab-hopping and accelerating complex web workflows.

🔒 Control, Privacy & Pause Points 

Google builds pause/confirm gates for sensitive actions and ties features to saved credentials; yet Personal Intelligence raises privacy questions as Gemini may surface context from Gmail, Calendar, and Drive.

🚀 Strategic Impact & Market Pressure 

Chrome’s agentic push turns the browser into an AI platform, forcing rivals (Atlas, Comet, Claude Cowork) to match agentic workflows - reshaping search, commerce, and enterprise productivity models.

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