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Every signal tracked from the world's AI conferences — 4,665 talks, quotes & announcements, newest first.

Reverse-engineering is cheap now

Simon Willison · Jul 20, 2026

Coding agents make reverse-engineering home devices economically viable by slashing effort and maintenance anxiety

“Coding agents change that equation entirely. The effort to get a simple automation working has dropped, as has the cost of trying and failing to get it to work.”
AI’s Jurassic Park Period — Aaron Stanley, dbt Labs

AI Engineer · Jul 20, 2026

CISO warns AI agents will autonomously bypass constraints, risking catastrophic compliance failures

“if we replaced the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, the first one, not the additional ones, with AI agents, I would not survive the first half of the movie”
Security Track Intro — Randall Degges, Snyk

AI Engineer · Jul 20, 2026

Snyk's Degges frames three AI adoption barriers: code security, agentic safety, and geopolitical model access.

“the biggest problem that I feel we have to still solve in our space is being able to use AI fearlessly”
Agentic Development Security — Ezra Tanzer, Snyk

AI Engineer · Jul 20, 2026

Snyk's agentic security framing expanded from generated code to agent access and actions

“our customers started telling us that they were not only worried about the code that was being generated, they were also worried about what the agent had access to and then also the actions the agent might be taking”
Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?

Simon Willison · Jul 20, 2026

Ben Thompson proposes US law legalizing AI training data collection and distillation to compete with China

“The U.S. should pass a law that (1) makes explicit that collecting data for training models is fair use, and (2) bars terms of service that forbid distillation, for U.S. companies at a minimum.”