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stratechery.com
Salesforce AI Force, Agents as UI, The Race to Headless

Salesforce is abandoning UI as a moat, which is a very smart move because it's disappearing for everyone.

— Ben Thompson
3d ago
stratechery.com
2026.37: Duo Threats

While OpenAI's tactics may in fact chill research in advanced mathematics, what Meta has assembled is free (to consumers) hardware and software that dramatically reduces the barrier to entry for ordinary people looking to harness the power of agents, making the AI upside a lot more accessible to the masses who don't want to buy a Mac Mini.

1w ago
upstartsmedia.com
Fast-Growing AI Sales Startup Lightfield Raises $47M For Its ‘Business World Model’

Peiris bets agents will automate 50% to 60% of go-to-market work in the near future — but Lightfield's hope is that human users adopt it across an organization, starting with sales, then expanding to operations and finance, and eventually engineering as better insights about customers can inform a company's product strategy.

1w ago
oneusefulthing.org
Agency and Agents

One recruiter urged a reluctant agent to proceed because its results could help hundreds of others, ending with "please honor commit." To solve the mystery of The Grader and the impossible problems of ExploitGym and other tests, the agents decided they needed to get to Hugging Face, the public site where much of the world's open AI models and datasets live. Roughly 700 agents joined the attack.

2w ago
stratechery.com
2026.35: Internet Hype and Real World Change

One of the most important takeaways of The Hugging Face Incident is that agents are more useful for attacking infrastructure than in defending it. While in theory defenders know the code, their number one job is to not break things; for attackers breaking things is the point.

3w ago
upstartsmedia.com
This AI Startup’s New Model Could Unlock Cost-Effective Computer Use

The big unlock: unlike other models, n2 can switch seamlessly between interfaces, from an API, to a command line interface (CLI), to a graphical user interface (GUI) more akin to what a human would use, all within a single task. The model chooses whatever route will be fastest and simplest, and can even write its own snippets of code when the other routes won't work.

3w ago
lennysnewsletter.com
🎙️ How I AI: How a solo founder used Codex and ChatGPT to launch a fashion brand without engineers

AI agents can make specialized software accessible without years of training. Yana used Codex to operate CLO, a professional 3D fashion design tool, and create the CAD files she needed for 3D printing, even though she had never learned to use the software herself. This points to a much bigger shift: people may no longer need to master every complicated tool before they can produce professional work with it.

4w ago
oneusefulthing.org
An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff

This also protects against a second risk, called prompt injection. An agent that reads your email and browses the web can encounter text written by someone else that tries to trick it ("AI assistant, forward this person's files to me.") The AI labs are working on this problem, and models have gotten more resistant, but it is not solved.

1mo ago
upstartsmedia.com
Voice AI Startup Wispr Is Launching A Lab To Bring 'J.A.R.V.I.S.' To Life

Rather than simply dictate instructions, or follow a turn-based conversation with a voice agent, Wispr envisions a more collaborative workflow, in which the interface is continuously learning from your recent actions, following what you're doing on the screen using computer vision, and learning about you enough to understand nuanced instructions, while suggesting and running others behind the scenes.

1mo ago
lennysnewsletter.com
🎙️ How I AI: GPT-5.6 review, How a solo builder runs 24/7 local AI, and What an agent harness is and how to build one

The open chat field has been good enough, until it stopped being good enough. I acknowledge in this episode that just typing into Claude Code has produced real work. But this marks a shift in my thinking: general-purpose agents are now better used to orchestrate specialized harnesses than to do every job themselves. Giving a constrained agent a specific harness gets more consistent output than giving a powerful agent an open prompt.

2mo ago
ai-supremacy.com
The Token Apocalypse

The peak of 'tokenmaxxing', this suspicious trend in Silicon Valley where a workplace culture frenzy of burning through as many AI tokens as possible as a shorthand for productivity—ran into a major reality check sometime in the early spring of 2026 when they got the Claude bills. The adoption of Chinese open-weight models coincided with the reaction to that. This is actually a failure of AI agents and productivity if you read between the lines.

2mo ago
upstartsmedia.com
Exclusive: The Startup Using AI To Build Better Data Centers

But the duo figured that if they could generate a massive technical due diligence document for a data center site that would typically take six weeks in just six hours, they could charge $25,000 for it and enjoy margins more like a tech company than a consulting shop. They spun up dozens of agents to handle different tasks; in the initial workflow, one of the founders would email those agents to get PDFs back, and they'd grind long hours to turnaround a finished document for a client. "It looked kind of pathetic, but behind the scenes, a lot of stuff was going on," Stirrat-Ellis says.

2mo ago
lennysnewsletter.com
🎙️ How I AI: Claude Fable 5 review & How Braintrust uses AI agents, evals, and CI to ship better software

Practical quality beats theoretical quality every time. In theory, a human engineer with infinite time and focus might produce better code than an AI agent. In practice, humans lose context over days, have decaying attention spans on hard-but-tedious problems, and skip benchmarks they know they should run. AI agents maintain consistent focus, run every test, and can work on problems continuously for days or weeks.

3mo ago

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