I recently watched a board chair say "good question, moving on" three times in ninety minutes. Each time, the room exhaled. The question had been acknowledged. Nobody had to answer it. That evening, I put the same three questions to my AI Board of Directors. It asked several follow-up questions I had not anticipated. Two of them changed my mind about the underlying decision. Continue Reading →
Anthropic yesterday released Claude Opus 4.8, which the company calls it "a modest but tangible improvement" over Opus 4.7. When a vendor undersells its own launch, pay attention to which number it is quietly proud of. Continue Reading →
Amazon Web Services just announced the Agentic Shopping Assistant (ASA): a packaged version of the technology behind Amazon's own shopping assistant, now offered to other retailers. The service lets competitors launch their own AI shopping assistants in about 60 days using Amazon's architecture, starter code, and AWS engineers. Continue Reading →
Researchers at X41 D-Sec disclosed "BadHost," a critical vulnerability in Starlette, the open-source Python framework embedded into roughly 325 million new software builds every week. If your enterprise has stood up an AI agent in the last 18 months, some part of the stack runs on Starlette. Continue Reading →
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