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Quoting Rick Brewster

Simon Willison · Sep 02, 2026

Paint.NET now includes a clean-room reverse-engineered rewrite of Direct2D for WINE.

“At times, Claude was working with the fury of 10 freshly unshackled Einstein genius-level 10x coders.”
Agentic approaches to processing long videos with Gemini

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

Gemini's agentic video understanding selectively samples transcripts and frames to cut token costs while boosting accuracy.

“not only does it reduce the number of tokens it really needs, the performance increases because it can zoom in on certain functions and really pay attention to the things in the video that are actually important to the query”
Tokenomics 101: What Are Tokens & Why They Matter | AI Factory Insider Ep. 4

NVIDIA GTC · Sep 01, 2026

NVIDIA frames enterprise AI ROI as tokenomics: the spread between token value and generation cost

“the difference between the value of that token and the cost of generating the token, that will be the spread that the business really care about, and it really decides whether an AI use case is scaled up and successful at the company or it's gonna be killed after the pilot stage”
Your first AI agent is only a few lines of Python away

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Sep 01, 2026

Microsoft Foundry enables functional AI agents with MCP tool integration in minimal Python code

“In addition to the instructions we've added an MCP tool that calls the cupcake store and enables us to make the orders.”
DTW 2026 - Ercisson's CBEV solution, powered by AWS | AWS Events

AWS (re:Invent) · Sep 01, 2026

Ericsson deploys multi-agentic AI on AWS to automate telecom billing system cloud migrations

“we are leveraging a combination of agentic and machine learning AI technologies in the whole process of onboarding a complex workload into the cloud”
DTW 2026 - Amdocs Store Genie solution, powered by AWS | AWS Events

AWS (re:Invent) · Sep 01, 2026

Amdocs and AWS deployed a multi-agent telco support system saving 61,000 hours of wait time at PLDT.

“I'm choosing the right model to the right task... using Claude for reasoning, but using the Amazon Nova for these fast queries. And this is reduce our tokens by 95%.”