Trends
Two days ago, a 6-foot-2 humanoid robot walked across a stage in Las Vegas and lifted 110 pounds while an audience of 4,000 tech executives applauded. That robot was Atlas, built by Boston Dynamics (owned by Hyundai), and it wasn't a prototype. It was production-ready. All 2026
Business
Hiring is expensive. Training takes months. Good people leave. And somewhere between your third failed job posting and your fifth "we'll circle back" from a promising candidate, you start wondering if there's a better way. There is. But it doesn't involve recruiters.
Business
If your business uses AI and has customers in Europe, August 2, 2026 is circled on your calendar whether you know it or not. That's when the EU AI Act's core obligations kick in, and regulators will start enforcing compliance. The good news? You have seven
AI Agents
A Google Engineer Just Admitted Claude Code Did a Year's Work in One Hour. Here's What That Means for Your Team. On January 3rd, 2026, Jaana Dogan—a principal engineer on Google's Gemini API team—posted something on X that made 5.4 million
AI Agents
The predictions are in: 2026 is when AI stops augmenting jobs and starts eliminating them. This isn't doomer speculation. Venture capitalists are telling portfolio companies to shift budgets from labor to AI. Enterprise software companies are building "AI employees" instead of productivity tools. And the first
AI Agents
Welcome to the first AI Agent Digest of 2026. Every week, we curate the most important AI agent news and add our unfiltered takes. No fluff, no hedging—just what matters and what we think about it. 1. Meta Acquires Manus for $2 Billion Meta bought Manus, the AI agent
Use Case
Social media management is a grind. You know it, I know it, everyone who's ever stared at a content calendar at 11pm knows it. The math is brutal: to stay relevant on just three platforms, you need 15-20 posts per week. That's original content, engagement responses,
DevOps
At 3:14 AM last Tuesday, our production database started throwing connection timeout errors. CPU usage spiked to 94%. The error rate jumped from 0.1% to 12% in under three minutes. I found out about it at 8 AM when I checked Slack over coffee. By then, the issue
AI Agents
Every week you spend "evaluating" AI agents, your competitors are deploying them. That's not hyperbole. IDC predicts 40% of Global 2000 job roles will involve working with AI agents by the end of 2026. Not "might involve." Will involve. The companies moving now aren&
AI Pricing
You've seen the Manus AI demos. The viral videos. The "holy shit, it built an entire app" tweets. And then you checked the pricing page and thought: "Wait, how much will this actually cost me?" You're not alone. Manus AI's
AI Agents
Twelve months ago, "AI agents" was mostly a research term. Something academics debated and startups pitched. Today, as we close out 2025, agents have become infrastructure. Real products. Real deployments. Real consequences. This was the year AI stopped being a chatbot and started being a coworker. Let me
AI Employees
There's a dirty secret in the AI industry that nobody wants to talk about: autonomous AI agents fail most of the time. Not sometimes. Not occasionally. Most of the time. A November 2025 study put AI agents from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic through straightforward workplace tasks. The