Vercel Chief of Software Andrew Qu argues that AI agents represent a new form of software distinct from traditional web applications, citing their dynamic interaction and unpredictable outputs. Qu led…
Adobe is experimenting with 'agentic sites' that generate personalized web pages in real time based on a visitor's intent, using LLMs to assemble content from existing material. Principal Scientist Ca…
Paul Bakaus, creator of the open-source design skills system Impeccable, argues that AI agents require human steering and domain-specific vocabularies rather than one-shot design. He advocates for ski…
Cursor's VP of Forward Deployed Engineering, Pauline Brunet, detailed how the company deploys AI agents across the enterprise software development lifecycle, building teams of experienced engineers to…
Warp CEO Zach Lloyd announced at the AI Engineer World's Fair that the company is pivoting to a software factory platform called Oz, which automates the entire software development loop from triage to…
Natalie Meurer, Head of Agent Engineering at Sierra, argues that forward deployed engineering is defined more by customer accountability than by a specific skill set, and that product and customer-fac…
The AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 sold out all ticket tiers before opening, drawing over 6,000 attendees to Moscone West in San Francisco. Founded by Shawn 'swyx' Wang, the conference features 29 trac…
Sarah Guo, a prominent AI investor and Cognition backer, published an essay arguing that the most defensible AI companies will be those focused on "untrainable" work—integrating models into messy, pri…
Anthropic published research on recursive self-improvement (RSI) while OpenAI's ChatGPT crossed 1 billion monthly active users five months behind schedule and announced improved memory features. NVIDI…
Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella joined podcast hosts swyx, Sarah Guo, and Elad Gil for a crossover episode of No Priors and Latent Space following his Build keynote. The discussion focused on…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella joined the No Priors and Latent Space podcasts for a live crossover episode at Microsoft Build, where he discussed the company's strategy as a "Frontier Intelligence Platfo…
Microsoft announced seven new MAI models at its Build conference, including the flagship MAI-Thinking-1 reasoning model built with clean data lineage and no third-party distillation. The company relea…
Ethan He, an engineer at xAI who built Grok Imagine in three months, argued that video models derive their intelligence primarily from large language models rather than video training data, and predic…
Cognition raised $1 billion in a Series D funding round that values the company at $26 billion, marking a 2.5x valuation increase from its September Series C. The AI agent lab now projects over $1 bil…
Fireworks AI is in talks to raise a $15 billion valuation round, while Baseten is raising an $11 billion round, marking a rapid progression from unicorn to decacorn status in the AI inference infrastr…
Exa raised $250 million at a $2.2 billion valuation in a Series C round, Modal raised $355 million at a $4.7 billion valuation in a Series C round, and Turbopuffer reached $100 million in annual recur…
OpenAI's GPT-next model disproved the 80-year-old Erdős planar unit distance problem in under 32 hours at a cost of less than $1,000, marking the first instance of a general-purpose AI solving a well-…
At Google I/O 2026, the company announced Gemini 3.5 Flash is now generally available, positioning it as its strongest model for agentic and coding workloads with 1M-token context and four thinking le…
Anthropic has changed its Claude subscription model to include a monthly credit of API tokens equal to the dollar amount of the plan, effectively metering programmatic usage of the model outside its o…