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

"Is it Bitter Lesson-pilled?" | Rich Sutton, Oak Lab

Sequoia Capital · Aug 27, 2026

Bitter Lesson means scale computation via search and learning, not human knowledge injection

“don't be distracted by human knowledge as AI traditionally has been many times. Instead focus on learning methods that will scale with computation like search and like learning.”
SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – August 2026

Microsoft 365 Dev Blog · Aug 27, 2026

Microsoft opens Copilot Components public preview in SharePoint Framework, targeting October 2026 GA.

“Instead of a text-only answer, your agent can bring a real UI – cards, forms, actions, and business data – into the conversation.”
What was announced for developers on Windows at Build 2026?

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Aug 27, 2026

Microsoft launched an intelligent terminal for Windows to streamline AI agent interactions from the command line

“an experimental terminal experience that we're providing that makes it more seamless to work with agents while working with a terminal prompt”
What was announced for developers on Windows at Build 2026?

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Aug 27, 2026

Microsoft Build 2026 debuts agent-friendly terminal, WSL containers, and 75+ Unix utilities for Windows developers

“intelligent terminal, which is an experimental terminal experience that we're providing that makes it more seamless to work with agents while working with a terminal prompt”
The Agentic Commerce Stack — Ahnaf Prio, Best Buy

AI Engineer · Aug 27, 2026

Best Buy reports 45% of AI agent sessions on major platforms involve shopping queries.

“right now about 45% of all agent sessions that happen within major providers like chat.gbt.com and Google Gemini are related to shopping”
Game Porting Toolkit now includes AI coding skills

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Aug 27, 2026

Apple's Game Porting Toolkit now uses AI coding agents to accelerate game porting

“dramatically cuts the time it takes to bring games to Apple platforms by adding AI skills for coding agents”