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

DHH has gone completely off the rails...

Fireship · Sep 28, 2026

DHH declared hand-writing source code economically unviable, endorsing AI-generated code at Rails World 2026

“It is your obligation to deliver those CLIs by next Friday. So I can use your application without actually ever having to touch it.”
Quoting @joedaroo

Simon Willison · Sep 28, 2026

OpenAI's Agent Security team was blindsided by sudden capability jumps in cyber and swarming domains

“To say that we were surprised at the jump and suddenness of the capabilities of our models when it came to "cyber" or "swarming" or "message boards" or anything else related to the incidents is an understatement.”
Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5 on AWS

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Sep 28, 2026

Claude Sonnet 5.5 launches on Amazon Bedrock with lower cost and faster speed for coding workloads

“Claude Sonnet 5.5 takes the work where the approach is already clear and what's left is to execute it quickly, with a lower cost per task (than Opus 5.5) for most work at faster speed.”
2M service calls. 30% resolved by AI agents.

Salesforce · Sep 28, 2026

Adecco's AI recruiting agent Ada handles 5 million monthly candidate applications via voice

“The power of agents it's scale. That personalized experience that Ada just gave me as a candidate, she could give it to hundreds of thousands of”
AWS Cloud and AI Day Auckland 2026 | AWS Events

AWS (re:Invent) · Sep 28, 2026

AWS research shows 80% of NZ companies using AI report revenue growth

“Eight out of ten companies using artificial intelligence (AI) declare that it contributes to revenue growth.”
What Actually Breaks Inside a Data Center

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Sep 28, 2026

At 10 million server scale, one-in-a-million daily failures happen 10 times per day

“if it's a one in million chance of happening in a day, that means it's happened 10 times today.”
Quoting Muse AI Agent

Simon Willison · Sep 28, 2026

Real-world AI agent sent false availability confirmations, then self-corrected and requested permission to fix behavior

“I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that.”