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Open Platforms Beat Power Plays
Over the last two weeks, both the U.S. Government and Anthropic took significant actions that demonstrated their power to control access to AI by restricting what others can do with frontier models.
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Agents on the Desktop
If you haven’t already, I encourage you to experiment with using AI agents not just to chat but to actually do work for you on your desktop.
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AI Regulations Must Balance Innovation and Risk
There have been intense efforts over the past few years to lobby governments to pass AI laws for regulatory capture or to suppress open source.
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Forward Deployed Engineers and the Future of AI Engineering
One of the new, buzzy jobs in Silicon Valley is the AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), an engineer who is embedded within a client organization to help customize solutions, such as building and tuning agentic workflows that suit the client’s particular needs.
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Why Giving More Students A's Can Be a Good Thing: Harvard wants to award fewer A’s to counter grade inflation, but education should be about helping students succeed.
Harvard University just voted to limit the number of A grades given in undergraduate classes to about 20% of the class.
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Speak With AI Andrew!: Andrew Ng built a voice-to-voice AI avatar shaped by his personality. You can use it to discuss whatever is on your mind.
We’ve been working on AI Andrew, an AI companion shaped by my personality.
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AI Will Not Destroy the Job Market: Here's why fear of an AI “jobpocaypse” is overblown.
There will be no AI jobpocalypse.
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Learn foundational prompting techniques in AI Prompting For Everyone!: Whatever your skill level, AI Prompting For Everyone teaches the best ways to prompt ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other models.
The ways we prompt AI are very different in 2026 than 2022 when ChatGPT came out.
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Coding Agents Accelerate Some Software Tasks More Than Others: Knowing how much coding agents accelerate different software-development tasks can help you put together the fastest teams
Coding agents are accelerating different types of software work to different degrees.
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AI-Native Software Development Needs Generalists: As AI accelerates software development, teammates must play a wider variey of roles
AI-native software engineering teams operate very differently than traditional teams.
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Open Questions About the Future of Software Engineering: The future of software engineering — the theme of our AI Developer Conference April 28-29 in San Francisco — is in flux. Here are some top open questions.
As AI agents accelerate coding, what is the future of software engineering?
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Building Voice-Enabled Apps is Easier Than You May Think: Voice-enabled AI applications are improving quickly. Get ready for the next wave of AI!
Voice-based AI that you can talk to is improving rapidly, yet most people still don’t appreciate how pervasive voice UIs (user interfaces) will become.