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

Open and closed models are on different exponentials

Nathan Lambert · Interconnects · Jun 01, 2026

Closed AI models will keep commanding premium margins as coding agents prove users pay more for top intelligence.

“I would pay $2000/month for the tools today, especially knowing they’ll get much better.”
Which Typescript user will result in an error?

Google Developers (Google I/O) · Jun 01, 2026

A TypeScript quiz video poses which of two users triggers a type error in a welcome-email function.

“Here's a TypeScript developer challenge about a behavior that bites most devs at least once.”
Getting Started with the Microsoft Agent Pre-Purchase Plan

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Jun 01, 2026

Microsoft launches Agent Pre-Purchase Plan, a unified prepaid commitment covering four AI agent platforms.

“Microsoft agent pre-purchase plan is a unified commitment offer that covers Copilot Studio, Microsoft Boundary, and we just recently added Microsoft Fabric as well as GitHub Copilot.”
May 2026 newsletter

Simon Willison · Jun 01, 2026

Simon Willison's May newsletter teases that AI got expensive while Anthropic had a strong month.

“Al got expensive, and Anthropic had a really good month”