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From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak

No Priors · Aug 20, 2026

Science Corp's Prima retinal prosthesis received European regulatory approval, first to restore vision in blind patients

“Nobody had previously ever been able to restore a form vision image in the mind's eye of a blind patient in this way.”
Introducing AI Futures

OpenAI · OpenAI Blog · Aug 20, 2026

OpenAI launches AI Futures blog to explore AI's impact on power and governance

Quoting Jeremy Morrell

Simon Willison · Aug 19, 2026

LLMs enable a new era of extensible software by lowering the cost of authoring user extensions

“My hypothesis is that there is a new opportunity for Extensible Software on the web. LLMs radically lower the cost of authoring extensions, and modern sandbox primitives lower the deployment cost and provide good security boundaries.”
Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code

Simon Willison · Aug 19, 2026

AI coding agents shift the bottleneck from code production to cognitive capacity, not headcount

“I can churn out code a hundred times faster. I don't have the cognitive capacity to stay on top of 100 times the amount of code.”
How Fanatics Betting and Gaming built a multi-agent customer support system

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Aug 19, 2026

Fanatics Betting and Gaming deployed multi-agent AI on AWS to handle 40+ support queries per two minutes

“As we scaled, we knew our support experience needed to evolve with us. We wanted to give our customers faster, more accurate answers while making sure we never compromised on responsible gaming or compliance. The goal was to build something that got better over time, not just bigger.”
KnowledgeForge: mining gold from the ITSM ticket graveyard

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Aug 19, 2026

AWS open-sources KnowledgeForge to auto-generate knowledge base articles from ITSM tickets using Bedrock

“Enterprise IT support teams resolve thousands of tickets every month, and each one holds something useful: a symptom, a root cause, and the fix an engineer applied.”
How do you Genie?

Databricks · Aug 19, 2026

Databricks Genie enables self-service data analytics without SQL knowledge

“Leadership can go into Genie where they don't need to ask anyone. They don't need to have anyone like run SQL to get this.”
Building Governed Agents with Databricks

Databricks · Aug 19, 2026

Databricks proposes Unity Catalog as the governance layer to solve enterprise agent sprawl

“Everything in UC gets logged as well. So you can actually see the request response, the token latency, all the errors that's happening in each individual call.”
From Primitives to Production: How Anthropic Builds Agents

Databricks · Aug 19, 2026

Anthropic defines agents by leaning on model intelligence with minimal core primitives in a loop.

“Agents in anthropic are actually very simply defined where essentially you want to give the model and lean in on model intelligence as much as possible.”
The summer Math fell to the machines...

Fireship · Aug 19, 2026

AI solved multiple decades-old open math conjectures this summer, alarming top mathematicians worldwide.

“Couldn't believe it. I I had trouble sleeping for the first couple of nights I was out.”
DeepSeek Just Made Closed AI Look Ridiculous

Two Minute Papers · Aug 19, 2026

DeepSeek 4 Pro achieves near-frontier quality with MIT-licensed open weights, pressuring closed AI labs.

“DeepSeek has MIT licensed open weights. Anyone can run the exact same model at their own price.”