Other companies are also entering the AI Stone Age. Google demonstrated a handful of prototype AI agents at its I/O developer conference earlier this month, among many other new AI doodads.

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If these kinds of traces were indeed found on genuine Stone Age tools, it would be evidence that humans had been working with wood and honing techniques significantly earlier than previously believed.

The Stone Age timeline encompasses a huge chunk of human prehistory—and life wasn’t only about hunting and gathering. Because of just how long ago it was, we tend to think there wasn’t a ...