Trends
OpenAI just cut the price of GPT-5.6 by 80%, down to about twenty cents per million input tokens. Read that again, because it is the whole story of the next two years compressed into one line. The raw intelligence that a year ago felt scarce and expensive is now
Trends
A year ago, every boardroom conversation about AI agents sounded the same. How do we build one? Which framework, which model, which use case do we pilot first? It was a building question, and it was the right question for its moment. That moment is over. The enterprises that spent
Trends
Sometime in 2025, "multi-agent" stopped being an architecture and became a personality trait. Every demo had a swarm. Every diagram had five boxes labeled Researcher, Planner, Critic, Executor, and Summarizer, connected by a tangle of arrows that looked less like a system and more like a subway map
Trends
For about thirty years, the interface was where work happened. You wanted to send an invoice, you opened the accounting app and clicked through its screens. You wanted to update a deal, you logged into the CRM and filled in its fields. The software was not really the point. The
Trends
Here is the uncomfortable thing about the phrase "AI governance." It sounds like a document. A policy you write once, circulate for sign-off, file in a shared drive, and reference twice a year when legal gets nervous. That framing was fine when the thing being governed was a
Trends
For the first wave of business AI, the scoreboard measured motion. How many tickets did the bot touch? How many messages did it send? How many conversations did it "contain" before a human stepped in? Those numbers looked great in a board deck and told you almost nothing
Trends
For about two years, "prompt engineering" was the skill everyone rushed to put on a resume. Write the clever incantation, coax the model into behaving, share the magic phrasing on social media. It felt like the defining craft of the LLM era. It was not. It was the
Trends
Here is a number worth sitting with. In the past six months, the volume of tasks performed by agents on Amazon's AgentCore grew fifteen times over. Not fifteen percent. Fifteen times. AWS dropped that figure at its New York Summit alongside a roster of names that do not
Trends
Pick almost any analyst report and the headline number for AI agents lands in roughly the same place. MarketsandMarkets puts the category at $7.84 billion in 2025 and $52.62 billion by 2030, a 46.3% compound annual growth rate. Grand View lands near $50 billion by 2030. BCC
Trends
Here is a number that should make every automation vendor nervous. IDC projects that spending on AI agent platforms will reach $143 billion by 2027, and it says a large chunk of that comes directly out of the budget that used to go to robotic process automation and the older
Trends
Something shifted in the market this month, and you can see it in the survey data. Korn Ferry's survey of 1,674 global talent leaders found that 52% plan to deploy autonomous AI agents by the end of 2026, and among companies that already have, 88% are increasing
Trends
Before resigning from Baidu this spring, an algorithm engineer the press calls Wei Ying spent his final week on a new kind of handover. Instead of writing documentation and walking a successor through his projects, he built an AI version of himself. Coworkers fed his code, documents, research, and chat