Guide · Agents
How to design trust into AI agents
Wrapping a chat prompt around a rigid workflow does not make it an agent. Here is a shop metaphor — cashier, handbook, till, manager — for designing agentic systems a team will actually trust.
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Practical · Local & Open
A non-Chinese stack for code and long docs
If procurement has routed out Qwen and DeepSeek, four non-Chinese open-weight models cover the two jobs that come up most: coding and very long document QA.
News · Agents
A shared accessibility standard for AI agents
A July 2026 research paper proposes a single shared route for screen-reader data — the same plumbing AI agents already use to talk to tools — across Windows, Mac, Android and the web.
Tooling · Coding agents
An anti-fragile workflow for parallel coding agents
Coding agents break in predictable ways: wrong branches, fake test passes, results they never measured. AFAW is a free repo template that refuses to take their word for it.
Analysis · Open Models
Laya lands as Jev's open alternative
An open-source decision model matched its closed rival on most benchmarks within three days of launch — and runs free on hardware you already own.
News · Infrastructure
An AI chip claims a 1,000× efficiency gain
Naveen Rao's Unconventional AI says its first 'dynamical computer' draws 500 nanojoules per image — and warns AI will hit a power ceiling within three years.
News · Infrastructure
The Milan buyer quietly rewriting your apps
Luca Ferrari's Bending Spoons owns Airtable, Miro, Eventbrite, Vimeo and AOL. His podcast appearance this week laid out the playbook.
Analysis · UK & Policy
JD Vance rejects global AI governance
The US vice president told The All-In Podcast that a one-world AI regime would punish American builders — a stance UK buyers and regulators should track.
News · Infrastructure
Intel's free AI toolkit adds ten more models
The 16 September release adds ten more model families running on Intel's own CPUs and GPUs — including Qwen3.8 27B and Muse Glimmer 30B — and brings image generation to Intel's small on-chip AI accelerators for the first time.
News · Agents
GPT-6 Astra tripled Fable on agent tests
GPT-6 Astra nearly tripled Claude Fable 5.1's score on a year-long simulated vending business and beat the human baseline on every step of flying a surveillance drone — but only on its best attempts, Andon Labs says.
News · Agents
Perplexity's Portable Computer lands on Windows RTX
Perplexity's local AI agent now runs on Windows PCs with NVIDIA RTX graphics cards — keeping files on the machine and only sending hard questions to the cloud.
News · Models
Claude Fable 5.1 ships, 45% cheaper for agents
Anthropic's new flagship costs up to 45% less for agentic work thanks to lower cache-read pricing, and addresses customer complaints on cost, data residency and safety filters in a single release.
News · Infrastructure
AWS puts dashboards inside AI chat windows
AI agents tell you what they think went wrong — verifying them still means tab-switching out to a browser. AWS has put the dashboards in the same chat thread.
Thought Leaders
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Simon Willison
Independent researcher and prolific writer on practical LLM tooling, local models and the day-to-day craft of building with AI. Essential reading for anyone running models themselves.
Local Models LLM Tooling Open Source
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Demis Hassabis
Nobel laureate and CEO of Google DeepMind, steering frontier model research from the UK. The clearest anchor point for Britain's sovereign-AI ambitions and the science-first frontier.
Sovereign AI Frontier Models Science
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Andrew Ng
One of AI's foremost educators and a leading voice on agentic workflows — turning frontier capability into practical patterns small teams can actually adopt.
Agentic Workflows AI Education
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Andrej Karpathy
The field's clearest explainer — coined 'Software 2.0', 'Software 3.0' and 'vibe coding'. He turns each shift in how AI is built into a mental model practitioners actually use.
Agentic Engineering AI Education
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Jensen Huang
Builds the compute the whole AI era runs on. His GTC keynotes set the industry's agenda — and in 2026 that agenda is the 'age of agents' and physical AI.
AI Infrastructure Agentic AI