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Small, independent and with some degree of autonomy, what ultimately came to be described as the “agentic'“vision of AI was one describing fleets of individual AI agents operating in concert with one another and various third parties both human and otherwise. All of which means that the next challenge in front of the AI market is management.
AI sprawl.
Is Your AI Assistant Creating a Recursive Security Loop? from Camille Crowell-Lee
AI-assisted coding is starting to eat its own tail: the same LLMs that write code are increasingly asked to review it, explain security decisions, and even override their own warnings. That creates recursive trust loops where “explain your reasoning” becomes an attack surface, and models can literally talk themselves out of being secure. The fix isn’t better prompts, it’s old-school architecture - separation of concerns, non-AI enforcement, and treating LLMs as assistants, not authorities.
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“We’re very focused on delivering upon the AI capabilities of a device—in fact everything that we’re announcing has an NPU in it—but what we’ve learned over the course of this year, especially from a consumer perspective, is they’re not buying based on AI,” Terwilliger says bluntly. “In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome.”
🔗 Dell’s CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I’ve had in maybe 5 years
Containers running in VMs 4ever
“IDC forecasts that nearly 85% of all containers will continue running inside VMs through 2028 because enterprises trust the virtualization layer for governance, security, and operational control.”
🔗 Why a Single Platform for VMs and Containers Is the Future of Modern IT
Keep the thesis in mind. ‘Writers must […] constantly ask: what am I trying to say? Surprisingly often they don’t know. Then they must look at what they have written and ask: have I said it?’
Employee optimism about work-place productivity
Employees think working from home is fine:
Hybrid work has moved from novelty to normality, but employers and employees are no longer aligned on what it should look like. More than half of employees (56%) now work in the office full-time, yet only 15% would choose this pattern, with three-quarters (75%) preferring a more balanced approach.
This widening gap signals that organizations face a choice: continue to rely on presence-led models or shift toward purpose-led ones.
Related to your interests, Wednesday
More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds - “Together, these AI slop channels have amassed more than 63bn views and 221 million subscribers, generating about $117m (£90m) in revenue each year, according to estimates.” // Assuming The Algorithm" is working (showing people things they will watch and they verify this by watching more), this is some revealed preference in action. “I think of Trumpian policy, first and foremost, as elevating cultural policy above all else.
While Finland and Sweden consistently rank at the top of the happiness league table, for example, both countries have also persistently experienced some of the highest suicide rates in the European Union, ranking in the top five EU countries according to one recent statistic.
Weird-ass sounds from Russell's Dig
Also, see parts two, three, and four.