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Will Jack’s Buzz Attack Sting Slack?

Guest contributor: Alex Salkever is the Editor-in-Chief of the Agentic AI Foundation and the Linux Foundation, where he is responsible for storytelling across agentic AI and all of open source. Block founder and CEO Jack Dorsey tossed a jar of stinging insects into the agentic conversation with Buzz, an open-source workspace where people, code, and AI agents

Alex Salkever · AUG 6, 2026

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Infrastructure & Compute

The Refusal Nobody Tests For

Guest contributor: Ben Pouladian is the CEO of BEP Holdings and publisher of BEP Research, where he covers AI, semiconductors, energy, and infrastructure. The safeguards "are intentionally broad right now and may flag safe and routine coding, cybersecurity, or biology work." That's Anthropic's own notice, shown to me by Anthropic's own model. I published it

Ben Pouladian · AUG 2, 2026

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Getting Good at Reading the Web Won't Teach an Agent to Use It

Guest contributor: Abhishek Das is the co-founder and co-CEO of Yutori. Previously a research scientist at Meta FAIR, he earned his PhD from Georgia Tech. A few years ago, autocomplete finished your line of code. Today, coding agents open a pull request, run the tests, read the failures, and try again until the build is approved. On the surface it looks like

Abhishek Das · JUL 31, 2026

Robotics

Why Complex, Multi-Step Tasks Are the Hardest Problem in Humanoid Robotics

Guest contributor: Nikita Rudin is Flexion's co-founder and CEO. Formerly at NVIDIA and ETH Zurich, he now leads Flexion in building AI systems for humanoid robots. Last month, we gave a humanoid robot a single instruction in plain language: A parcel with snacks has been delivered for Flexion. Retrieve it using the stairs and come up using the elevator. Then

Nikita Rudin · JUL 26, 2026

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Your Chatbot Has a File on You. Three Prompts Will Show You What’s in It.

Ask ChatGPT or Gemini what it's figured out about you that you never actually said, and you'll get an answer you probably didn't want. This is not the stuff you typed, it’s the stuff it inferred. A recent test of both chatbots turned up income level (guessed from a German car and a nanny contract), a chronic foot problem (pieced together from a year of toe p

Nick Wentz · JUL 24, 2026

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Zeitgeist · August 5, 2026

NVIDIA in Orbit and Grok 4.6 Soon

SpaceX put NVIDIA chips on a rocket, a “practical AI” pitch got picked apart, and half the conversation kept circling one uncomfortable truth: recycled screenshots are beating original reporting on X. The mood was equal parts amused and annoyed.