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

Build context-aware agents: From data to decisions | BRK240

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Jun 11, 2026

Over 40% of agentic AI projects will fail because agents lack shared enterprise context, which Microsoft IQ aims to solve.

“More than 40% of agentic AI projects are expected to fail. And that's not because the models aren't capable, but it's because the agents lack the context that they need to be able to succeed.”
asyncinject 0.7

Simon Willison · Jun 11, 2026

Simon Willison released asyncinject 0.7, with Claude Fable 5 finding and fixing dependency bugs.

“I was using it with Datasette and Claude Fable 5 spotted some bugs in the dependency which it then fixed for me. It's a very proactive model!”
Agents League Hackathon 2026 – Enterprise Agents

Microsoft 365 Dev Blog · Jun 11, 2026

Microsoft launches Agents League Hackathon 2026 with $50K prizes, requiring use of new Microsoft IQ intelligence layers.

“All submissions must integrate at least one Microsoft IQ intelligence layer”
Build Small with OpenBMB

Hugging Face · Jun 11, 2026

OpenBMB promotes its compact MiniCPM models for cheaper, edge-friendly AI deployment at a 'Build Small' hackathon.

“instead of asking how can I use the largest model possible, a better question is can I build a useful project with a compact model that is better, cheaper and easier to deploy”
[AINews] Open Models, Model Labs vs Agent Labs, and What's Untrainable — Sarah Guo

Sarah Guo · Latent Space Blog · Jun 11, 2026

Sarah Guo argues AI apps earn defensibility in the 'untrainable' zone by arranging a company's private reality so models can act on it.

“An application earns its place in the untrainable corner by doing unglamorous work: arranging a company's private reality so a model can act on it, handing the model the tools to act, working with the customer to change the reality of its workforce.”
Build Small with Cohere Labs

Hugging Face · Jun 11, 2026

Cohere engineers introduce tiny open models for a 'Build Small' hackathon community session.

“Cohere is this like magical kind of company that has somehow managed to both embrace open source and consistently release open models and also build an actual business.”
Language features aren't collectibles

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Jun 11, 2026

Developers shouldn't chase every Swift language feature; focus on the problem you're actually solving.

“language features aren't collectibles. You don't get a prize if you've got one of all of them.”
WWDC26: Safari and Web Technologies Group Lab | Apple

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Jun 11, 2026

Apple previews WebKit features for Safari 27 including grid lanes, customizable select, and the HTML model element.

“But really the biggest news for WebKit this year, it's not any particularly exciting specific one feature.”
How frontier teams are reinventing AI-native development

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Jun 11, 2026

Frontier teams redesigning workflows around AI achieve 4.5x to 10x-plus software development productivity gains.

“The team shipped more production code in five months than in the previous ten years.”
OpenAI to acquire Ona

OpenAI · OpenAI Blog · Jun 11, 2026

OpenAI plans to acquire Ona to expand Codex with persistent cloud environments for long-running AI agents.

datasette-agent 0.2a0

Simon Willison · Jun 10, 2026

datasette-agent 0.2a0 adds mid-execution user questions and human-approved query saving.

“Tools that declare a context parameter receive a ToolContext object, and await context.ask_user(...) can ask a yes/no, multiple-choice (options=[...]) or free-text (free_text=True) question.”
3 rules to keeping your code healthy!

Google Developers (Google I/O) · Jun 10, 2026

Three identifier-naming rules keep code readable: short local scopes, no redundant context, no type prefixes.

“Your code shouldn't just compile, it should communicate.”
Explore updates to Liquid Glass

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Jun 10, 2026

Apple refined Liquid Glass with better diffusion, darkened edges, and brighter highlights, applied automatically without recompiling.

“Apps already using Liquid Glass get these improvements automatically when they run on this year's releases without even needing to recompile.”