Also: Claude Managed Agents, Antigravity, Project Glasswing, repugnant economics, and writing observations. From: Wes Anderson's Impossible Dreams Related to your interests Innovations from Google I/O 26 on Google Cloud - Google seems the cleanest when it comes to describing their AI stuff…it’s something like a mix of clear naming (aside from “Antigravity”) and functionality, and not carpet combing you with tools like AWS. Announcing Claude Managed Agents on Cloudflare - “Integrating with Claude Managed Agents is another step in this direction.

Also: Elon’s OpenAI lawsuit, build-vs-buy for agentic AI, and rethinking observability. From: Wakamai Fondue, the tool that answers the question what can my font do? Related to your interests Amazon employees admit to using AI unnecessarily to pump up internal usage scores - workers complain of intense pressure to use AI tools - Tokens are the new lines of code. Also, yes, of course, “Goodhart’s Law," blah blah.

Also: AI makes marketing opaque, execs value humans less, and clown world logic. You’re either left holding the bag, or pro-activity delivering “value creation” The answer is pretty clear: TryTanzu.ai. Related to your interests What’s New in Tanzu Platform 10.4: Powering Agentic Apps at Scale - Nick and Keith walk through it. Quit VMware and you’ll emerge with more complex and less capable infrastructure - “One is that few organizations will be able to quit VMware entirely, as they run applications with dependencies that aren’t easy or economical to unwind.

Also: Mirantis acquisition logic, and tech jobs at a 3-year high, so why the layoffs? Here’s the latest Tanzu Catsup: AI lets us find more vulnerabilities, faster than ever. That’s good news. You want to know what’s broken, and you want to patch it. The hard part is the volume. How do you handle it without drowning? We stream these every Friday at 10am US Eastern/4pm Amsterdam time.

Also: opinion shows for writers, no-update weeks, and the Spinoza heresies. From: The Brautigan Library Related to your interests Pushing Local Models With Focus And Polish - Building a DIY AI stack is difficult. The “AI Job Apocalypse” Is a Complete Fantasy - “The macro story is not a jobless future, where we retire fat and complacent to our Netflix-scooters.” // Yes, but, There is a bit of “disruption for thee, but not for me” going on in pieces like this.

Also: VCF 9.1 prefers private cloud for AI, the McGroc analyst trap, and the bank that lost the pope’s account. From: The undertow - Astrid Related to your interests VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 - a roundup of it all. Broadcom Announces VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 - “A preview of Broadcom’s Private Cloud Outlook 2026 report reveals private cloud continues to be the preferred platform for production AI.

Also: Bob picks the model, AI-BOMs, $37.5M DIY platforms, and AI slop on tap. From: AI Slop Me Related to your interests 🤖 The Venture-Capital Populist - Packer’s profile of David Sacks as architect of Silicon Valley’s MAGA alliance, who delivered crypto legitimisation and AI deregulation to the Trump administration while keeping his venture fund running and benefiting from the policies he wrote. don’t call it “social media,” call it “parasocial media” Most AI coding is “like taking your Ferrari to buy milk”: IBM’s Neel Sundaresan - Harness talk from IBM: “Bob doesn’t expose the underlying model to users.

Also: human-in-the-loop theatre, MCP-on-Go pain, and Google Translate at 20. From: The Spanish napkin Related to your interests Where AI Accountability Goes To Die When You Stick A ‘Human In The Loop’ And Call It ‘Governance’ - 🤖: “Stuart Lauchlan and HFS / Altimetrik’s Humans at the helm of AI study of 505 G2000 execs find enterprise AI is cost-driven, accountability-asymmetric (CIOs carry the blame, not the strategy), and the ‘human in the loop’ is mostly theatre - only 25% say humans would prevail in a disagreement, 18% have clear visibility into AI reasoning.

Also: AI’s biggest critic loses the plot, Notepad++ on Mac after 20 years, and dark modes as cosplay. From: Monkigras, 2026 Related to your interests From Infrastructure to Agents: A Hands-On Guide to Secure Private AI with Broadcom Claude Code and the rise of personal software - Low-code, except high code made by non-programmers. “Developer loyalty is at zero right now”: Google doesn’t care which AI coding tool you use - “I come across as a wildcat in this one.

Also: AGENTS.md as model upgrade, Europe-as-vassal, and a Slack chatbot nobody bothers to verify From: WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS Related to your interests What We Learned Testing Frontier AI Security Models Against Our Own Code - “What we learned is that the useful mental paradigm for this technology is not to treat it like a vulnerability ‘scanner.’ The models are non-deterministic; they do not work like static analyzers.