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Three Inverse Laws of AI Introduction Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot services have become increasingly sophisticated and popular. These systems are now embedded in search engines, software development tools as well as office software. For many people, they have quickly become part of everyday computing. These services have turned out …

The platforms that ship your code, mapped on one page. From hosted PaaS and CaaS to sandboxes, Jamstack edges, ADN runtimes, self-hosted control planes, and cloud IDEs — every platform from the open awesome-paas list, organized as a single navigable landscape.

Agents for financial services We’re releasing ten ready-to-run agent templates for the most time-consuming work in financial services: building pitchbooks, screening KYC files, and closing the books at month-end. Each one ships as a plugin in Claude Cowork and Claude Code, and as a cookbook for Claude Managed Agents, so a team can put Claude on real financial work in days rather than months. Clau…

I’m Michel, co-founder and CEO of Airbyte ( https://airbyte.com/). We’ve spent the last six years building data connectors. Today we're launching Airbyte Agents ( https://docs.airbyte.com/ai-agents/), a unified data layer for agents to discover information and take action across operational systems. Here’s a quick walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZosDytyf1fg As agents move into real w…

The best is over The fun has been optimized out of the Internet The seed of this post was hearing “I Don’t Wanna Wait” on the radio while shopping for groceries. The song rips off “Dragostea Din Tei” by O-Zone, which anyone who was on the Internet in 2004 knows as “Numa Numa”. Gary Brolsma’s lip-syncing video was one of the Internet’s earliest memes, and perhaps the best. It was pure, joyful, spo…

A harness is the prompt + tools + scaffolding around an LLM agent. A meta-harness is the loop that improves the harness automatically: a proposer agent reads the diagnostic logs of prior candidates, spots a failure mode, and writes a better harness. Yoonho Lee’s framing of the idea makes one sharp claim — the bottleneck is diagnostic context: most optimizers compress prior runs into summary stati…

100 AI tools that have shut down or been acquired and folded into other products. Maintained as part of our editorial review — every entry was a real product listed on ToolDirectory.AI before its lights went out.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported on Monday that iOS 27 will add a "Create a Pass" feature to the Wallet app. Tap the "+" button you already use to add credit cards or pass emails, and Wallet will offer something it has never offered before on iPhone: a path to build your own pass. You can scan a QR code on a paper ticket or membership card with the camera, or build a pass from scratch in a layout…

I've been playing word games my whole life. My mom has been regularly beating me at Scrabble since I could spell. I lose frequently to my wife Maya at Scrabble, and my kids beg to play Wordle every time we are waiting for a food order. My brother-in-law even made us a crossword to commemorate our wedding date. After trying out NYT's Crossplay recently for a few weeks, I set out to build a new wor…

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Ethan Mollick has been writing about AI adoption in organizations for a while now. In Making AI Work: Leadership, Lab, and Crowd, he makes the point that individual productivity gains from AI do not automatically become organizational gains. People may get faster, write better, analyze more, automate more, or quietly become cyborg versions of themselves. The company may still learn almost nothing…

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device Two weeks ago I wrote about Anthropic silently registering a Native Messaging bridge in seven Chromium-based browsers on every machine where Claude Desktop was installed [1]. The pattern was: install on user launch of product A, write configuration into the user's installs of products B, C, D, E, F, G, H without asking. Reach across v…