"ZENONIA 2: The Lost Memories" has been announced to receive a Steam port by Com2us Holdings. Story: After Regret sealed away Ladon, who had sought to destroy the world, four warriors became the "Four Holies" and stood guard over the seal. Their efforts restored peace, but the desires buried in the human heart soon began to stir again. Seeking to purify humanity, the World Tree scattered its petals across the land. That night, everyone lost their memories. In time, that night came to be known as the "Holy Night." With their memories gone, monsters grew stronger, and the world fell into chaos once more. Zavkiel, the Great Guardian, says that gathering the four "Tear Crystals" that fell from the World Tree on the Holy Night can restore the lost memories and drive back the monsters. Four heroes, each with a different past and purpose, set out at Zavkiel’s request. As the pieces of memory fall back into place, forgotten truths—and the source of the ominous presence spreading across the world—begin to reveal themselves. #ZENONIA# #ZENONIA2#

True story: our original company name when we were in stealth was Zeno AI, not Patronus AI. Back in 2023, Rebecca and I started the company on the idea that AI evaluation was like Zeno’s Paradox. Every time models reached the bar we had set, the frontier of what we needed to evaluate moved further ahead. Fast forward to 2026, I still think Zeno's Paradox is the most accurate way to describe AI progress. Every finish line we draw for AI moves the moment it reaches it. In the original Zeno's Paradox, every time Achilles reaches where the tortoise stood, the tortoise has moved a little further on, so he appears to chase forever. Mathematically the paradox does resolve. The shrinking gaps sum to a finite length, and Achilles does pass. In the AI version of the paradox, the idea is that humans are the tortoise, and AI is Achilles. We start far ahead, carrying millions of years of evolutionary and cultural learning. And over the last few years, Achilles has closed most of the visible distance. But the reason the AI version is more interesting is that the tortoise keeps speeding up. Each time AI closes a gap, it hands the people defining the frontier a better tool for defining the next one. Mathematicians use the newest models to probe harder open problems. Researchers use them to help design the very evals the next generation of models will struggle against. Everyone is anxious about the rate of progress in AI right now, but ultimately I think we’re going to land in a pretty optimistic place: AI will enable humans to reach farther than ever. @danshipper has a nice GIF of this tortoise/Achilles setup, see below.

FM Speaker Highlight: Chou Ying Hsi Chou Ying Hsi is the General Manager of Zenor Creative Tech, leading AI-driven productions across advertising, entertainment, and digital media. Combining cinematic storytelling with cutting-edge generative AI workflows, he is currently producing Before You Forget Me — an original AI drama series that bridges technology and human emotion. So glad to have him at #FM26# this September. FUTUREMODE 2026 📍 Taipei Expo Dome | Sep 4–6, 2026 🌐 🏟 Early Bird Till 7/1 Local - International -

This is what AI Agents can actually do to the economy according to Vetta Fi’s Head of AI and Robotics Zeno Mercer "People are overwhelmed with life administrative tasks. Personal AI assistants are gonna start solving that.“ "Everyone's gonna have a Fortune 500 in your pocket. You have legal, you have a CEO, you have a chief of staff. It understands your personal alignment goals. That's gonna change consumer buying. That's gonna change how advertising works. It's gonna change everything as we know it." On the companies that lose: "A lot of companies have relied on friction and asymmetric information. We're gonna see a lot of moats disappear. FICO relied on government lock-in to maintain a monopoly of sorts. We're seeing that evaporate right now."