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The state of AI agents in 2026: the year tools become teammates
Agents stopped being a demo this year. Here's what the founders building them are seeing inside the enterprise.
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The companies, the models, the talent, and the regulation defining the most important technology shift of our time.
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Small models are eating the enterprise — and saving fortunes doing it
Companies running smaller fine-tuned models are reporting 80% cost reductions with no quality loss on focused tasks.
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AI evaluation: the quiet bottleneck slowing every enterprise rollout
The companies winning the AI rollout race are obsessed with one thing nobody talks about at conferences.
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Inside the humanoid robotics boom that nobody saw coming
Two years ago humanoids were a meme. In 2026 they're a category — and the founders shipping them are getting term sheets in days.
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Next-gen batteries are finally shipping — quietly
After a decade of promises, the post-lithium-ion era is arriving in industrial form factors first.
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Edge compute is becoming the most boring — and most profitable — story in tech
The companies wiring the edge are the picks-and-shovels of the AI era. Nobody talks about them.
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