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Most people don’t appreciate the profound threat that AI will soon pose to human agency. A common refrain is that “AI is just a tool,” and like any tool, its benefits and dangers depend on how people use it. This is old-school thinking. AI is transitioning from tools we use to prosthetics we wear. This will create significant new threats we’re just not prepared for.No, I’m not talking about creepy brain implants. These AI-powered prosthetics will be mainstream products we buy from Amazon or the Apple Store and marketed with friendly names like “assistants,” “coaches,” “co-pilots” and “tutors.” They will provide real value in our lives — so much so that we will feel disadvantaged if others are wearing them and we are not. This will crea

Most discussions about vibe coding usually position generative AI as a backup singer rather than the frontman: Helpful as a performer to jump-start ideas, sketch early code structures and explore new directions more quickly. Caution is often urged regarding its suitability for production systems where determinism, testability and operational reliability are non-negotiable. However, my latest project taught me that achieving production-quality work with an AI assistant requires more than just going with the flow.I set out with a clear and ambitious goal: To build an entire production‑ready business application by directing an AI inside a vibe coding environment — without writing a single line of code myself. This project would test whether

The relationship between one of Silicon Valley's most lucrative and powerful AI model makers, Anthropic, and the U.S. government reached a breaking point on Friday, February 27, 2026.President Donald J. Trump and the White House posted on social media ordering all federal agencies to immediately cease using technology from Anthropic, the maker of the powerful Claude family of AI models, after negotiations of a less than two-year-old contract reportedly broke down over Anthropic's refusal to roll back prohibitions on using its technology in fully autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of U.S. citizens. Following the President’s lead, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said he was directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a "Supply-Chain Risk to National Security," a blacklisting traditionally reserved for fo

For the past year, the enterprise AI community has been locked in a debate about how much freedom to give AI agents. Too little, and you get expensive workflow automation that barely justifies the "agent" label. Too much, and you get the kind of data-wiping disasters that plagued early adopters of tools like OpenClaw. This week, Google Labs released an update to Opal, its no-code visual agent builder, that quietly lands on an answer — and it carries lessons that every IT leader planning an agent strategy should study carefully.The update introduces what Google calls an "agent step" that transforms Opal's previously static, drag-and-drop workflows into dynamic, interactive experiences. Instead of manually specifying which model or tool to call and in what order, builders can now define a goal and let the agent determine the best path to reach it — selecting tools, triggering models like Gemini 3 Flash or Veo for v

The landscape of enterprise artificial intelligence shifted fundamentally today as OpenAI announced $110 billion in new funding from three of tech's largest firms: $30 billion from SoftBank, $30 billion from Nvidia, and $50 billion from Amazon.But while the former two players are providing money, OpenAI is going further with Amazon in a new direction, establishing an upcoming fully "Stateful Runtime Environment" on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world's most used cloud environment.This signals OpenAI's and Amazon's vision of the next phase of the AI economy — moving from chatbots to autonomous "AI coworkers" known as agents — and that this evolution requires a different architectural foundation than the one that built GPT-4. For enterprise decision-makers, this announcement isn’t just a headline about mas

AI agents now carry more access and more connections to enterprise systems than any other software in the environment. That makes them a bigger attack surface than anything security teams have had to govern before, and the industry doesn't yet have a framework for it. "If that attack vector gets utilized, it can result in a data breach, or even worse," said Spiros Xanthos, founder and CEO of Resolve AI, speaking at a recent VentureBeat AI Impact Series event. Traditional security frameworks are built around human interactions. There's not yet an agreed-upon construct for AI agents that have personas and can work autonomously, noted Jon Aniano, SVP of product and CRM applications at Zendesk, at the same event. Agentic AI is moving faster than enterprises can build guardrails — and Model Context Protocol (M

Former Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's new company Block — the parent of merchants payment system Square, mobile peer-to-peer payments Cash App, music streamer Tidal, and open source AI orchestration system Goose — is sending shockwaves across the business world tonight after announcing a more than 40% headcount, cutting its workforce by more than 4,000 people out of a prior total of 10,000, despite its latest quarterly earnings statement released today showing $2.87 billion in gross profit up 24% year-over-year. The culprit? Newfound AI efficiencies. As Dorsey put it in a note shared on his own former social network, X: "we&