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ExperienceFlow.AI, a pioneer in artificial general intelligence for enterprises, is honored to announce Professor Richard Sutton, a distinguished researcher and 2024 Turing Award winner, as its Chief Scientific Officer.
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Prof. Sutton is the pioneer of Reinforcement Learning (RL) and his ground breaking research has significantly advanced the field. His core focus is to develop highly scalable learning and search algorithms that can lead us to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
“We are thrilled to have Prof. Sutton join us at such an important moment when the field of AGI is transitioning from the Age of Human Data to the Age of Experience,” said Giri ATG, Co-founder & CEO of ExperienceFlow.AI. “We firmly believe AI systems will evolve from learning from human data to learning from their own flow of experiences. This powerful approach will lead to new breakthroughs, as AI agents will explore new possibilities that are not limited by human data.”
“The Bitter Lesson of AI teaches us that the world is infinitely, irredeemably complex, and the only way to win is to continually adapt to the portion of the world that is currently being experienced. Only when we can learn from experience in a general way will we able to build true AGI,” says Prof. Sutton.
“With Prof. Sutton as our Chief Scientific Officer, we are building a dedicated AI team to accelerate our roadmap for the next wave of super intelligence based on Reinforcement Learning Agents that can learn from their own experience. This experience-powered approach goes beyond OpenAI's RLHF and DeepSeek's R1, which are limited by human experts’ data and verifiable (math like) rewards respectively,” said Giri ATG.
As edge compute becomes cheaper with hardware like Nvidia’s DGX Spark, ExperienceFlow will help reconfigure the intelligence architecture of enterprises and nations to a new approach wherein enterprises and nations can own and differentiate their network of intelligent agents.
“A Digital Nervous System for an enterprise would inherently be spatially distributed and asynchronous. Creating it requires new ideas in decentralized AI architectures,” says Prof. Sutton.
At ExperienceFlow.AI, our commitment to building experience-powered RL and decentralized AI is unwavering. We believe Prof. Sutton’s deep RL expertise, visionary approach, and academic rigor will propel our research initiatives and position us at the forefront of cutting-edge developments.
Please join us in warmly welcoming Prof. Sutton to our team!
About ExperienceFlow
ExperienceFlow.AI is an enterprise AGI startup that helps enterprises consistently hit their revenue and margin targets using goal-seeking AI agents (non-GenAI) that augment every role in the organization. We have built a full self-drive platform called Enterprise Digital Nervous System (EDNS).
Professor Richard Sutton - Chief Scientific Officer ExperienceFlow.AI
The European Union’s executive commission said Thursday it will put its retaliatory measures against new U.S. tariffs on hold for 90 days to match President Donald Trump ’s pause on his sweeping new tariffs and leave room for a negotiated solution.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters on Wednesday that the pause was not a result of the brutal sell-offs in the financial markets but rather because other countries are seeking negotiations. Trump later told reporters that he pulled back on many tariffs because people were getting “yippy” and “afraid.”
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“This will give us the opportunity to negotiate the reduction of tariffs so that the playing field is leveled,” said Lesotho Minister of Trade and Industry Mokhethi Shelile.
Lesotho, which relies on making and exporting clothes to the U.S. for brands like Levi’s, had feared almost half its clothing sector could be put out of business.
In Madagascar, which provides 80% of the world’s vanilla, exporters said there was now more time for government and industry officials to meet and plot a way forward.
And South Africa Trade and Industry Minister Parks Tau said on Radio 702 that while his country received confirmation that proposed export tariffs by the U.S. were paused, the 10% baseline tariff meant “it is not completely off.”
South Africa is one of more than 30 countries eligible for tariff-free access to the American market under the African Growth and Opportunity Act agreement that has been in place for 25 years. Many of them fear that Trump’s tariff tactics will mean the agreement will not be renewed.
Trump’s top economic advisers will gather a day after the president announced he was suspending for 90 days import taxes on dozens of countries while escalating his trade war with China to discuss the president’s options moving forward.
“The chief of staff’s office has called all the principals who have, you know, skin in the game and discuss their views about how this should go,” Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council, told reporters on Thursday.
Hassett added that 15 countries have already presented offers to the administration aimed at getting Trump to drop his reciprocal tariffs. He did not detail which countries have presented offers.
This morning, at 10 a.m. ET, Trump will receive his intelligence briefing in the Oval Office.
At 11 a.m., he will participate in a cabinet meeting.
At 12:30 p.m., he will attend the swearing-in ceremony for the solicitor general.
Later, at 4 p.m., he will participate in a bill signing in the Oval Office, according to the White House.
World markets soared on Thursday, with Japan’s benchmark jumping more than 9% as investors welcomed Trump’s decision to put his latest tariff hikes on hold for 90 days.
In early trading, Germany’s DAX initially gained more than 8%. By midmorning, they were up 5.3% at 20,720.86, while France’s CAC 40 in Paris gained 5% to 7,204.23. Britain’s FTSE 100 surged 4.0% to 7,983.37.
Chinese shares saw more moderate gains, given yet another jump in the tariffs each side is imposing on each other’s exports.
The future for the S&P 500 was down 2.1%, while the contract for the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1.6%.
Analysts had expected the global comeback, given that U.S. stocks had one of their best days in history on Wednesday as investors registered their relief over Trump’s decision.
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China is reaching out to other nations as the U.S. layers on more tariffs in what appears to be an attempt to form a united front to compel Washington to retreat. Days into the effort, it’s meeting only partial success with many countries unwilling to ally with the main target of Trump’s trade war.
China has thus far focused on Europe, with a phone call between Premier Li Qiang and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen “sending a positive message to the outside world.”
That was followed by a video conference between Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao and EU Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security Šefčović on Tuesday to discuss the U.S. “reciprocal tariffs.”
Wang has also spoken with the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, while Li, the premier, has met with business leaders. China has “already made a full evaluation and is prepared to deal with all kinds of uncertainties, and will introduce incremental policies according to the needs of the situation,” Xinhua News Agency quoted Li as saying.
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Trump delivered another jarring reversal in American trade policy Wednesday, suspending for 90 days import taxes he’d imposed barely 13 hours earlier on dozens of countries while escalating his trade war with China. The moves triggered a powerful stock market rally on Wall Street but left businesses, investors and America’s trading partners bewildered about what the president is attempting to achieve.
The U-turn came after the sweeping global tariffs Trump announced last week set off a four-day rout in global financial markets, paralyzed businesses and raised fears the U.S. and world economies would tumble into recession.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt tried to characterize the sudden change in policy as part of a grand negotiating strategy. But to those outside the Trump administration, it looked like a cave-in to market pressure and to growing fears that the president’s impetuous use of import taxes — tariffs — would cause massive collateral economic damage.
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The European Union’s executive commission said Thursday it will put its retaliatory measures against new U.S. tariffs on hold for 90 days to match President Donald Trump’s pause on his sweeping new tariffs and leave room for a negotiated solution.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the commission, which handles trade for the 27 member countries, “took note of the announcement by President Trump.”
New tariffs on 20.9 billion euros ($23 billion) of US goods will be put on hold for 90 days because “we want to give negotiations a chance,” she said in a statement.
But she warned: “If negotiations are not satisfactory, our countermeasures will kick in.”
Trump imposed a 20% levy on goods from the EU as part of his onslaught of tariffs against global trading partners but has said he will pause them for 90 days to give countries a chance to negotiate solutions to U.S. trade concerns.
President Donald Trump speaks during an event on energy production in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
People walk in Leadenhall Market at lunch time, in the financial district, known as The City in London, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick leaves after doing a television interview outside the White House, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
President Donald Trump signs an executive order during an event in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
