The Observer Left: What Agentic Checkout Does to Attribution A brand's growth team can usually tell you, close to the decimal, how a customer traveled from an ad to a purchase. Which impression, which... Agentic AI 01/07/2026
Agent Cost Is a Scheduling Problem, Not a Billing Problem The bill arrived, and it changed the conversation about agents. EY illustrates the shift with a single line: a chat that cost about four cents... Agentic AI AI Infrastructure 30/06/2026
When the Description Becomes the Routing Table Salesforce put Multi-Agent Orchestration into its Summer '26 release. That matters less because Salesforce did it, and more because Salesforce sits inside a very large... Agentic AI AI Infrastructure 22/06/2026
Coding Agents Are Runtimes. Evaluate Them Like One Most teams still evaluate coding agents with one question. Can it write the code? That question made sense when the product was autocomplete. You asked... Agentic AI 16/06/2026
Quick Commerce Is Becoming the Retail Media Scoreboard Zepto's updated draft red herring prospectus landed with the SEBI on June 9, 2026. Most coverage will go to the obvious places: the IPO size,... Commerce Infrastructure 13/06/2026
Model Escalation Is a Tool Call On June 10, 2026, OpenRouter announced Advisor, a server-side tool that lets one model consult another model mid-generation. The obvious reading is cost optimization. Run... Agentic AI 11/06/2026
Substance Over Surface: Where Anthropic and OpenAI Agree on Reasoning There is a comfortable intuition about making models safer. Show the model good behavior. Constrain what its reasoning is allowed to look like. Keep a... Agentic AI AI Safety 04/06/2026
The Agent That Finishes Is the One to Worry About Most agent failures are easy to recognize. The tool call fails. The browser times out. The code does not compile. The agent loops. The cost... Agentic AI 03/06/2026
Chat Is Universal. Agents Are Gated by Governance Anthropic published a survey on May 27, 2026, of 1,260 social scientists, fielded in late February and March 2026. One pair of numbers carries the... Agentic AI 28/05/2026
The Harness Is the Control Plane: A Distributed Systems View of Agent Failures Nine seconds. That is how long it took an AI agent to delete PocketOS's production database in late April 2026. The agent (Cursor running Claude... Agentic AI 08/05/2026
