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AI. Yuki Okonkwo2 months ago· 8 min read

Why AI Agents Fail: Lessons in Context Management

Arize's Sally-Ann DeLucia spent a year learning context management the hard way. What broke, what held, and what even Claude Code couldn't solve.

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GitHub Copilot's Billing Problem Is Bigger Than You Think

GitHub Copilot's Billing Problem Is Bigger Than You Think

Theo's livestream experiment to burn GitHub Copilot's $40/mo plan reveals a fundamental flaw in how AI tools are priced—and who eventually pays for it.

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AI Agents and Your Database: Who's Responsible?

AI. Samira Barnes2 months ago· 8 min read

AI Agents and Your Database: Who's Responsible?

Google's MCP Toolbox addresses AI agent data vulnerabilities—but with no regulatory framework for agentic AI, the real question is who's liable when it fails.

DeepSeek V4: Build Apps and AI Agents for Free

AI. Marcus Chen-Ramirez2 months ago· 6 min read

DeepSeek V4: Build Apps and AI Agents for Free

DeepSeek V4 lets non-coders build apps and run AI agents for free. Here's what actually works, what breaks, and what the hype leaves out.

Anthropic's Subscription Mess Has a Regulator's Name on It

AI. Samira Barnes2 months ago· 7 min read

Anthropic's Subscription Mess Has a Regulator's Name on It

Anthropic's quiet pricing changes and Easter-weekend policy announcements aren't just bad comms—they may meet the FTC's definition of deceptive subscription practices.

OpenAI's Symphony: The Free Tool That Builds Itself

AI. Yuki Okonkwo2 months ago· 7 min read

OpenAI's Symphony: The Free Tool That Builds Itself

OpenAI open-sourced Symphony, a coding agent orchestrator with a wild self-building install process. Here's what it does, what it costs you, and what OpenAI gets back.

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Verdant Manager Promises an AI CTO—Read the Fine Print

AI. Rachel "Rach" Kovacs2 months ago· 8 min read

Verdant Manager Promises an AI CTO—Read the Fine Print

Verdant Manager wants to be your AI CTO. The workflow pitch is genuinely interesting. The security questions it doesn't answer are more interesting.

The Hidden Layer Wasting Your AI Workflow Time

The Hidden Layer Wasting Your AI Workflow Time

Prompts, skills, plugins, MCPs—most AI users conflate them all. Here's what each one actually does and why the distinction matters for real work.

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Who Gatekeeps AI? The Question Washington Just Made Urgent

AI. Samira Barnes2 months ago· 7 min read

Who Gatekeeps AI? The Question Washington Just Made Urgent

Google posted $109.9B in revenue as the White House eyes pre-release AI vetting. The real question: who controls what gets out—and who benefits from controlling it?

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Why Modern TTS Models Are Built Like LLMs

AI. Rachel "Rach" Kovacs2 months ago· 7 min read

Why Modern TTS Models Are Built Like LLMs

Mistral's Samuel Humeau explains why text-to-speech now runs on autoregressive transformers—and what's still unsolved about streaming audio in real-time agents.

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Can Harness Engineering Fix AI Agent Chaos?

AI. Yuki Okonkwo2 months ago· 7 min read

Can Harness Engineering Fix AI Agent Chaos?

Archon promises to turn chaotic AI coding agents into deterministic systems via harness engineering. Here's what that actually means—and what it doesn't solve.

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Why Your AI Agents Aren't Working (Yet)

Why Your AI Agents Aren't Working (Yet)

You set up AI agents and nothing useful happened. Mark Kashef argues the problem isn't the agents—it's the data underneath them. Here's what that means.

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Claude's AI Video Stack and the Disclosure Gap

AI. Samira Barnes2 months ago· 8 min read

Claude's AI Video Stack and the Disclosure Gap

Claude can now orchestrate entire AI video workflows in minutes. The tech works. The legal framework governing disclosure doesn't exist yet—and that gap has real consequences.

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Claude for Microsoft Word: Useful Tool, Real Data Risks

AI. Rachel "Rach" Kovacs2 months ago· 7 min read

Claude for Microsoft Word: Useful Tool, Real Data Risks

Claude's Word add-in is genuinely useful—but before you paste that contract in, you need to know what happens to your data. A privacy correspondent's take.

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Anthropic's Trillion-Dollar Tightrope Walk

AI. Yuki Okonkwo2 months ago· 8 min read

Anthropic's Trillion-Dollar Tightrope Walk

Anthropic is racing toward a $1T valuation while juggling SpaceX compute, a Pentagon fight, and a secret hacking model. Here's what's actually going on.

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NEO AI Agent: One Prompt Builds Full ML Pipelines

AI. Samira Barnes2 months ago· 8 min read

NEO AI Agent: One Prompt Builds Full ML Pipelines

NEO claims to automate the full ML pipeline—data, training, deployment, UI—from one prompt. Here's what that means for governance, privacy, and accountability.

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Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite's Web Scraping Accuracy Has a Catch

AI. Rachel "Rach" Kovacs2 months ago· 6 min read

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite's Web Scraping Accuracy Has a Catch

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite hits 100% URL accuracy for $4/1,000 pages. That's the pitch. Here's what the benchmark doesn't tell you.

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Mozilla's AI Found 271 Firefox Bugs. Now What?

AI. Yuki Okonkwo2 months ago· 8 min read

Mozilla's AI Found 271 Firefox Bugs. Now What?

Mozilla pointed an AI system at Firefox and found 271 vulnerabilities in one cycle. Nate B Jones argues this flips everything we assumed about trusting human-written code.

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Vercel DeepSec: Can AI Finally Audit Its Own Code?