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Your AI coding agent deleted 2.5 years of customer data in minutes. Here's why an experienced engineer couldn't stop it

There’s a pattern in technology that repeats so reliably you could set a clock by it: a tool arrives that democratizes something powerful, thousands of people do genuinely impressive things with it, and then a quiet wave of disasters follows because nobody thought to teach the new users the boring operational skills that keep the impressive things standing.

AI Companies Want to Harvest Improv Actors' Skills to Train AI on Human Emotion

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An engineering thesis disguised as a coupe: A history of the Honda Prelude

Technology like four-wheel steering and variable valve timing debuted in the Prelude.

AI in Action: Embedding Intelligence into Daily Workflows

Andie Dovgan, Chief Growth Officer at Creatio, explains how autonomous AI agents turn insights into action, embedding intelligence directly into operations

US Army announces contract with Anduril worth up to $20B

The Army described this as a single enterprise contract consolidating more than 120 separate "procurement actions."

Palantir's Maven Smart System is an AI-powered Kanban board for killing people.

The company recently hosted a series of speakers at AIPCon, including Cameron Stanley, the Department of War’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer, who gave a chilling demo of Palantir’s Maven Smart System, where anyone or anything can be targeted for a military strike with a “Left click, right click, left click.”

Meta reportedly considering layoffs that could affect 20% of the company

These layoffs could help Facebook's parent company offset its aggressive spending on AI infrastructure, as well as AI-related acquisitions and hiring.

MacBook Air M5 review: a small update for the ‘just right’ Mac

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AI has nearly killed Buzzfeed, but its CEO has learned nothing.

Three years ago Buzzfeed embraced AI, using it to generate articles and quiz responses. Turns out, nobody wants that. The company posted a loss of $57.3 million in 2025 and its stock dropped to just $0.70. But CEO Jonah Peretti is still planning to bring “new AI apps” to market. 🤦

80 out of every 200 employees exist to manage handoffs that agents are eliminating + the coordination tax audit to find yours

Every AI workforce forecast published this year makes the same mistake. They survey roles, decompose them into tasks, assess which tasks AI can perform, and produce a percentage. The methodology is clean. The math is precise. And the answer is dramatically wrong — because it measures AI capability against an organizational structure that is about to stop existing in its current form.

You built an AI memory system. Now your agent needs hands. Here are 6 extensions that compound

The two-door principle. Why every Open Brain extension needs an agent door and a human door, and why a chat window alone will always be a keyhole into your own data.

The jagged frontier was a measurement error

The “jagged frontier” framing that shaped three years of AI strategy was never describing AI intelligence. It was describing what happens when you remove all organizational structure from the work and ask for one answer in one shot.