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Now, next, and beyond: Tracking need-to-know trends at the intersection of business and technology

This Week in AI: Agents Are Outrunning the Systems Around Them

2 Oct 2026

On the latest episode of This Week in AI, host Vicki Reyzelman, a senior solutions engineer at Akamai, traced a common problem across cybersecurity, energy, model releases, consumer hardware, and

Coding Agents Love Decision Records

2 Oct 2026

The following article originally appeared on Duncan Davidson’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Decision records give coding agents durable project context—as

The Future of Software May Be Conversational Rather Than Autonomous

1 Oct 2026

The following article originally appeared on Robert Englander’s blog site and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. The software industry has become deeply focused on autonomous AI

The Agentic Data Science Playbook

30 Sep 2026

The following article originally appeared on Vanishing Gradients and is being republished here with the authors’ permission When an AI agent can explore a dataset, choose a modeling approach, run

Evaluating AI-Generated Frontend Code: What Should We Actually Test?

30 Sep 2026

AI can now generate a surprising amount of frontend code from a short description. A developer can ask for a form, a table, a modal, a settings page, or a dashboard view and get something that looks

Superpowers for Humans

29 Sep 2026

I’ve known Jesse Vincent for more than 20 years, since the days when I was still editing and publishing Perl books and organizing the Perl Conference and he was the chief maintainer of Perl 5 and

Not About Navier-Stokes

29 Sep 2026

This post isn’t about OpenAI’s use of AI to solve the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the Millennium Prize problems, at least not directly. I’m not a mathematician; I have a vague understanding

A Data Center Is a Dependency Graph Before It Is a Building

29 Sep 2026

The buildings and physical infrastructure for a new hyperscale data-center region are complete. Power is live and redundant, the cooling loops are balanced, the network fabric is up, and tens of

Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Give Your Agent Its Own Computer

28 Sep 2026

In the most recent episode of Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes, AI engineer Sajal Sharma showed how to use a remote sandbox to let your agents install software, run commands, and control a browser without

From Raw Data to Graph-Native AI

28 Sep 2026

I’ve been thinking about a gap in the way we discuss graphs in AI. Most of the conversation starts after the graph already exists. We talk about graph neural networks, GraphRAG, graph agents, and

Human Judgment Doesn’t Leave the Software Factory, It Relocates

25 Sep 2026

The following article originally appeared on Elevate and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. A software factory is a repeatable loop around software work. If you’re building a

This Week in AI: AI’s Safety Problem

25 Sep 2026

AI systems are gaining access to more tools and data, raising new questions about oversight and accountability. This Week in AI host Christina Stathopoulos spent this episode examining how those

When Software Subscriptions Become Public Policy

24 Sep 2026

My conversation with Dan Gookin, the original For Dummies author and now mayor of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, started as a publishing reunion. It ended with a much larger question: What happens when the

Will TypeSafe’s Jev Change How We Build AI Applications?

23 Sep 2026

The following article originally appeared on Arize’s blog and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. This week the AI community was in uproar about Jev from TypeSafe, not just a new

MCP Is Not Just Another API Standard

23 Sep 2026

Ask most engineers what MCP is and you’ll get the same answer: a way to plug tools into an LLM. Fair enough, as far as it goes. But that description treats MCP like plumbing, and after months

The Accelerationist Case for Frontier Pacing

22 Sep 2026

The following article originally appeared on Venkatesh Rao’s Substack, Contraptions, and is being republished here with the author’s permission. The sole athletic achievement of my life came in

AI Sovereignty: Bargaining with Big Tech and the Promise of Full Stack Open Source AI

22 Sep 2026

The early rapid expansion of AI capabilities that focused on frontier models was largely ushered into the world by a few powerful, US-based AI labs. Open-weight models released from labs in China,

Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build a Sports Concierge Agent with Chester Ismay

21 Sep 2026

Chester Ismay, a data science educator and AI consultant, created schedule viewers to keep up with the sports he follows, including the WNBA, NFL, NBA, and Premier League. But he still had to decide

The Post-training Process OpenAI Used for ChatGPT

21 Sep 2026

This is the third post in a four-part series about post-training. If you missed them, read part 1 and part 2. The final post, on implementing your own pipeline, will be coming October 7. Now that you

How to Get from AI-Assisted to AI Native

18 Sep 2026

When considering the history of AI, Richard Sutton observed that brute force and compute scale has always trumped human expertise, and when you look for it, you can see this “bitter lesson” play

Software Factories, Light and Dark

18 Sep 2026

The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. A software factory harnesses loops at scale. You can run the loop with

This Week in AI: Capability, Capital, and Consequences

18 Sep 2026

OpenAI expanded into software control, scientific reasoning, and financial services this week, and investors committed billions more to AI companies across the stack, while AI researchers went public

Navigating the Modern Data Lexicon: A Working Vocabulary for the Semantic Era

17 Sep 2026

The way we talk about data is changing faster than the way we build it. Every quarter a vendor ships a new approach, coins a new term for it, or quietly adopts a term someone else has been using and

Architecting for the Knowledge You Can’t Capture

16 Sep 2026

Every knowledge program seems to begin with the same request. A senior engineer is leaving in six weeks, and someone asks her to document the process she’s carried for years. She returns a clean

What AI Can Teach Us About Being Human

16 Sep 2026

My guest on this past week’s Live with Tim O’Reilly was Emmanuel Ameisen, a researcher on Anthropic’s AI interpretability team. I’d heard him give a short talk at Foo Camp on Anthropic’s

Beyond Navier–Stokes: Who Controls Scientific Discovery?

15 Sep 2026

Is the current furore in mathematics the canary in the coalmine for experimental science and knowledge work? This post was originally published in Vanishing Gradients on September 11, 2026. It has

Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build a Shared Knowledge Base for All Your Agents with Sajal Sharma

14 Sep 2026

Every AI agent you run keeps what it learns to itself. Work through a problem with Claude Code in the morning, then ask Codex about it that afternoon, and the second agent has no idea the first one

Enterprise Analytics Beyond Dashboards: Intelligent Data Orchestration with LLMs

14 Sep 2026

In 17 years of building enterprise data platforms, I’ve watched every organization eventually ask the same question: “Can I ask one question and get one answer across everything my company

The Interfaces Are Arriving

11 Sep 2026

The most consequential AI news of the past year came from a standards body. In December 2025, Anthropic donated the Model Context Protocol to the newly formed Agentic AI Foundation, a directed fund

Operating Mode as Runtime State: A Contract for Enterprise

11 Sep 2026

During a service incident, a customer-remediation workflow is moved onto an emergency route because the situation is critical and the team needs a fast resolution. Approvals are shortened, a priority

When Content Is Free, Trust Is the Product

10 Sep 2026

There is more technical content available today than any human being could read in a thousand lifetimes. Every topic has a dozen YouTube videos, three Substack posts, a GitHub repo, and a Reddit

Generative AI in the Real World: Local Voice AI with Pete Warden

10 Sep 2026

Pete Warden has spent his career on the frontier of small, local AI, first as one of deep learning’s earliest engineers (he coined the term “TinyML”) and now as founder of Useful Sensors and

Own the Outer Loop

9 Sep 2026

The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. In the past year, the conversation around agentic engineering has moved

LLMs Reward Expertise

9 Sep 2026

The following article originally appeared on Sean Goedecke’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. In the 2010s, if you had technical gaps (say, you couldn’t write

Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build a Supply Chain for Agent Context with Maxim Salnikov

8 Sep 2026

We still haven’t solved the problem of keeping track of everything we’re feeding our AI agents. Developers now install agent skills, instructions, and other customizations from public

Experience Mapping Matters More the Faster You Move

8 Sep 2026

AI is changing how fast organizations can move. Ideas that used to take months to build now take days, sometimes hours. That sounds like good news, and it is. But it creates a new problem. When

This Week in AI: The Frontier Is Getting Bigger

4 Sep 2026

Host Christina Stathopoulos, founder of Dare to Data and a former data scientist at Google and Waze, returned to This Week in AI with developments that stretched from Claude testing ways to improve

Inside a Software Factory

4 Sep 2026

As a software engineer with more than seven years of experience before the coding-agent era, I never liked the idea of vibe coding. But I knew there was a clear line between it and using coding

Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build a Content Engine with Max Johnson

3 Sep 2026

Max Johnson, founder of the AI agency briix, regularly publishes practical AI guidance for business owners and founders to help them get the most out of AI. Max has used some of that know-how to

Hey AI, Can You Just Give Me a Hat Tip Please?

3 Sep 2026

Sometime in the next few months, Anthropic is supposed to send me a check. Around $9,000 for me, about the same for my longtime coauthor Jenny Greene, and roughly $18,000 for O’Reilly, our

What a User Story Actually Costs in a Dark Code Factory

2 Sep 2026

Between March and July 2026, I built a production application of 861,601 lines of code. This included 696 user stories and 779 merged pull requests over 105 days, but I can’t tell you what it cost.

Radar Trends to Watch: September 2026

1 Sep 2026

Coauthored with Claude Midway through each month, I think “The next Trends is going to be small. Not much is happening.” This is the first time that I’ve been right. Was everyone on vacation in

Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Building a Financial News Agent with Jayeeta Putatunda

31 Aug 2026

In this episode of Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes, Jayeeta Putatunda, forward deployed AI engineering lead at Turing, builds a multi-agent workflow that turns a daily flood of financial headlines into a

Architectural Guardrails for AI-Generated Code

31 Aug 2026

Consider a composite of a failure pattern that’s becoming increasingly common on teams that have scaled AI-assisted development past a handful of enthusiasts. A staff engineer named Priya opens a

This Week in AI: The Guardrails Are Getting Tested

28 Aug 2026

In the latest episode of This Week in AI, host Vicki Reyzelman, a solutions engineer with Akamai, said the systems keeping AI secure, powered, and physically functional are getting stress-tested

Tokens Aren’t Dollars

28 Aug 2026

The following article originally appeared on Tim O’Brien’s Medium blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. AI costs are easy to count and hard to understand, and judging

Writing with AI

27 Aug 2026

A lot of professional writers say they never do it. And for writers who do, the consequences can be serious. Book contracts have been withdrawn. People have lost jobs. I have a contrarian view. I say

The Identity Crisis No One Planned For: Governing Nonhuman Agents at Enterprise Scale

27 Aug 2026

For a decade, identity and access management meant one thing: governing the humans who log in. Employee joins, gets provisioned, gets a manager, gets a departure date, gets offboarded. That loop is

Effective Patterns for Advanced MCP Usage

26 Aug 2026

The following article originally appeared on PulseMCP’s blog and is being republished here with the authors’ permission. Most MCP demos feature a single server connecting to a single client. For

When Smaller Models Win

26 Aug 2026

The following article originally appeared on the Asimov’s Addendum blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Even the best AI models can suck at chess The launch of ChatGPT