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 under the Linux Foundation cofounded by Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI, with support from Google, Microsoft, AWS, Cloudflare, and Bloomberg. Six months earlier, […]

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 queue is opened, and an on-call agent is cleared to use an alternate procedure until the service recovers. The incident ends, but the route stays […]

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 thread, most created in the last six months and, in many cases, technically accurate. And yet most of the professionals I talk […]

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 Moonshine AI, where he builds voice models that run entirely on-device. Pete joined Ben to make the case that local AI […]

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 to harnesses and loops, fleets and software factories. My 2 cents is engineers need to own the outer loop—the accountability for these systems. This only gets […]

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 CSS), you had to either rely on a skilled colleague or just hope that the answer to your exact problem was out there on the […]

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 repositories by the dozens, and those files end up scattered across user profiles, application folders, and codebases with no record of where they came from or whether they’ve […]

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 execution is fast, teams can move in many directions at once. Marketing can ship a new campaign, product can […]

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 model safety to Chinese open weight models gaining developer traffic and new systems learning to model physics. She also examined what Anthropic […]

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 agents to generate clean, maintainable code. That line, where good software principles meet coding agents, is defined by software […]

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 streamline his own day-to-day work, turning what used to be a manual content creation process—researching topics, judging their relevance, and […]

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 publisher. The reason is that pirated copies of the books Jenny and I wrote, along with a huge amount of other people’s […]

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. The first version of an autonomous SDLC framework driving Claude Code did the work. That generation didn’t record usage, […]

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 August? Am I becoming jaded? There were many model releases, though few of them seemed significant. Then again, it may […]

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 structured analyst briefing. Financial analysts already have deep internal research, coverage assignments, and market views, but keeping that context current as new […]

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 pull request. The PR is 340 lines and adds an endpoint that writes to the customer table directly, bypassing the internal customer service API. The […]

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 faster than anyone expected. She moved through cybersecurity and governance, the power strain behind rising compute demand, and humanoid robots that are now doing real […]

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 effort by a token volume? While that might feel like a valid measure of value or complexity, it doesn’t capture the details that define […]

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 AI is a medium, like painting, sculpture, photography, music, or language itself. If AI is a medium, it is […]

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 well understood. What changed is that the fastest-growing population inside enterprise environments is no longer human, and the governance playbook written for people […]