Modal CTO Akshat Bubna argues that AI infrastructure must evolve from developer experience to agent experience, as agents require tighter feedback loops, sandboxes, and programmatic infra. Modal, whic…
Lilian Weng, cofounder of Thinky, published a summary of 35 papers on harness engineering for recursive self-improvement (RSI), arguing that harness improvements will remain essential even as core mod…
Tencent released Hy3, a 295B MoE open-weight model under Apache 2.0, positioning it as competitive with larger systems on reasoning and coding tasks. The release comes amid a quiet period in AI news a…
The AI Engineer World's Fair concluded with a debate on the viability of autonomous software factories, pitting advocates like Geoffrey Huntley and Ian Livingstone against skeptics Dex Horthy and Greg…
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…
At the AI Engineer World's Fair, speakers debated the role of human agency in AI-driven software development, with some advocating for autonomous 'autoresearch' loops and others insisting that humans …
Roland Gavrilescu, co-founder of Introspection, introduced the concept of autoresearch at the AI Engineer World's Fair, describing a feedback loop where AI agents maintain and improve systems using si…
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…
Genesis Molecular AI co-founder Evan Feinberg and CTO Sergey Edunov discuss how diffusion models are revolutionizing small molecule drug discovery. Their PEARL model predicts protein-ligand interactio…
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…
The AI Engineer World's Fair on Tuesday focused on loops, agent engineering, and software factories, with speakers emphasizing the use of persistent coding agents and automated development lifecycles.…
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 as its new default mid-tier frontier model with a 1M-token context window and agentic capabilities, while also receiving approval to release Fable/Mythos 5 after gov…
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…
Ahmad Osman, founder of Osmantic, argued at the AI Engineer World's Fair that local AI is rapidly catching up to proprietary frontier models, driven by shrinking gaps in open-source LLMs and improved …
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna as a restricted preview limited to trusted partners at the request of the U.S. government, marking a shift toward government-mediated frontier AI releases.…
OpenAI reports median internal Codex output tokens grew 56x in Research, 32x in Customer Support, 27x in Engineering, and 13x in Legal since November 2025, indicating rapid internal adoption of AI age…
OpenAI announced Jalapeño, its first custom AI chip for LLM inference, built with Broadcom and intended for ChatGPT, Codex, and future agent products, signaling a push to own more of the AI stack. Mea…
Databricks co-founders Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin argue that the frontier AI ecosystem must remain open, unveiling Omnigent, an open-source meta-harness for combining and controlling agents across …