The Hallway Track
Every signal tracked from the world's AI conferences — 5,359 talks, quotes & announcements, newest first.
Uber caps employees at $1,500/month per AI coding tool like Claude Code to control runaway costs.
“The rideshare giant is limiting all employees to $1,500 in monthly token spending per AI coding tool, an Uber spokesperson said in response to a Bloomberg News inquiry.”
Microsoft Foundry adds reinforcement learning and a low-level training API to turn production agents into cheaper, faster models.
“Think of it as PyTorch as a service.”
Wasmer used OpenAI's Codex with GPT-5.5 to build an edge Node.js runtime 10-20x faster.
ARM launches Performix, a performance analysis toolkit built with Microsoft to tune workloads on Cobalt.
“Performance analysis can be thought of like a crime investigation.”
Databricks Genie powers cross-industry conversational intelligence solutions for enterprise functional and technology use cases.
AWS launched Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, enabling AI agents to autonomously transact and make payments.
“we want to talk about how agents can transact and how agents can uh make payments and that's one of the uh the next steps in the evolution of agents.”
Lucid's AI tool generates diagrams like flowcharts, BPMN, and ERDs from text prompts.
“This should get rid of a lot of that manual work uh for many team members that have to create these diagrams from scratch.”
Red Hat demos deploying an Azure MCP server from a catalog into a multi-agent OpenShift app that diagnoses and resolves support cases with no glue code.
“In this case we will not be writing any glue code. We won't be building any custom integration. We will just deploy from the catalog the MCP server and we will consume that as a regular workload.”
Foundry lets agents built with open-source frameworks deploy to production without rewriting, using OpenAI-compatible APIs and MCP.
“Changing the model target is configuration not a rewrite.”
Microsoft Foundry positions itself as the platform to build, govern, and manage continuously-improving agentic AI systems as models and costs shift.
“a year ago, building an AI app felt a lot more simple. You picked a model, you wire it up, and you ship it.”
Azure Cosmos DB adds AI-powered schema design, the Cosmos DB Agent Kit, and MCP integration for building AI-native apps faster.
“MCP integration super important is like a USBC for apps and agents these days.”
DevExpress demos connecting Azure OpenAI tool calling to Blazor grid and reporting controls for natural-language data interaction
“This is not about generating code and it's not about dropping a chatbot beside an existing app and calling it done. This is about connecting AI to the controls, to the data, and to the workflows users already rely on.”
As AI drives the cost of building software toward zero, developers must find what remains defensible.
“if the cost of building software is approaching zero does that means that the value of building software is also approaching zero”
LLMware Model HQ runs scheduled, multi-step SLM agent workflows locally on Snapdragon NPUs using AI Foundry-optimized models.
“what if also without having to prompt you could run automated workflows that are scheduled driven”
Elastic's agent builder can turn a traditional e-commerce search into a conversational AI agent on Azure without rebuilding the app.
“a model without the right context, without the right data is just a very expensive autocomplete”
Microsoft consolidates Teams agent tooling into a unified Teams SDK and new CLI to ship agents fast
“Today, we're going to build an agent from zero to a teammate in under 25 minutes.”
Teams believe they have 80-90% Terraform coverage of Azure resources, but the real number is 40-60%.
“The gap here isn't dishonesty, it's that nobody's measuring.”
PDFs are now consumed by LLMs too, so they must be made accessible and structured for machine reading.
“What we see is very easy for us because we are trained up on it but LLMs don't have this and so it's very hard for them to interpret the actual meaning behind those pixels.”
Fireworks AI brings day-zero open-source model inference to Microsoft Foundry for production AI workflows.
“We serve around 13 trillion tokens per day and 180,000 requests per second.”
Microsoft positions Windows as the best platform to build and run AI agents safely at scale.
“we believe it is the best platform to run and build agents at scale”
A volunteer-run Global AI Community of meetup chapters has grown across continents since 2017.
“This is not a demo. This is not a product launch. This is what is the global community.”
AWS DevOps agent, an AI-powered assistant for incident resolution, is now included with AWS support plans.
“AWS DevOps agent is a frontier agent provided by AWS which is just an AI powered assistant”
OpenAI publishes a public policy agenda covering AI safety, youth protection, workforce transition, and global standards.
OpenAI proposes a federal framework for democratic governance of frontier AI in the U.S.