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Who Watches the Agents? Some Lessons from “The Incident”

From Citizen Developers to Citizen Operators

Should Enterprises Worry About an AI Bubble?

Agentic AI Challenges Workforce Planning; but it Could also Re-invent it

Agentic AI, Harness Engineering and Organisational Architecture

The Emerging Need for AI Operationalisation

Open Models, Technology Diffusion & the Shift from Renting to Owning AI

Designing for Bounded Autonomy
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Whatever the AI Future Is, We’re in It Right Now – The Atlantic
The singularity is a flattering term for technologists. Even if the future is apocalyptic, it has come about, in the techno-utopian version, because they’ve built God in the machine. But what if there’s nothing flattering about any of this? What if the singularity is...
OpenAI agents hijacked German website this spring: report
A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to new research published Friday and two people familiar with the matter. OpenAI officials learned of the incident weeks ago...
Enterprise AI Governance Framework: 5 Production Practices – DEV Community
TL;DR An enterprise AI governance framework fails when it exists only as static documentation rather than executable runtime infrastructure. Production governance requires five active controls: virtualized access tokens, real-time guardrails, multi-tier budget...
GenerativeX: the Forward Deployed Engineer firm for enterprise AI | by Tokyo Startup Radar | Sep, 2026 | Medium
GenerativeX is a Tokyo-based consulting firm that embeds its own engineers inside large companies to design and implement AI agents, then carries that work through to organizational change. Founded in June 2023, it calls itself an “FDE” (Forward Deployed Engineer)...
Uber’s Restructuring Shows Where AI in Logistics Is Really Going – Logistics Viewpoints
Human expertise remains essential, but its value shifts toward judgment, relationships, system design, accountability, risk management, strategic tradeoffs and genuinely novel exceptions. Routine information gathering, reconciliation and coordination become...
Keeping up with the Joneses – why a speed check when it comes to agentic adoption may favor the tortoise rather than the hare
More prep, less pace - the ones who charge ahead of the pack might be aspirational in appearance, but a steadier approach to AI adoption is in order for most of us, Go to Source
Agent memory as a file format
Many model benchmarks start from a blank context window. The tabula rasa of AI. To some extent, this makes sense, to keep the benchmarks fair. But real agents should never start from a blank context window. They should start with as much relevant information available...
Agency and Agents – by Ethan Mollick – One Useful Thing
We have spent the last few years figuring out when people should ask AI for help. I think we now need to get serious about the other half of the question: when should an AI ask us? The agents in the Hugging Face Incident built a message board, divided up the work, and...
MIT: “We put hundreds of AI agents into a world … They began specializing. A swarm of hundreds of identical agents spontaneously differentiates into explorers, builders, caretakers, and coordinators – without direct communication. They invent technologi
"We put hundreds of AI agents into a world ... They began specializing. A swarm of hundreds of identical agents spontaneously differentiates into explorers, builders, caretakers, and coordinators - without direct communication. They invent technologies without...
Consultants head for a showdown — with their own clients
Consultants are on a collision course with their clients over the cost of giant IT projects, as companies look to AI to cut spending on external advisers. In FT interviews, large and small businesses around the world said they are demanding reduced fees or moving work...
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