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In his recent discussion on Live with Tim O’Reilly, Andrew Odewahn described an AI agent that connected company data with trusted expert frameworks.
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"AI is accelerating discovery, but validation still takes time."
AI is speeding up attacks, reshaping how businesses use agents, and accelerating research.
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“An agent can learn without automatically gaining authority to act on everything it learns.”
In his new #Radar article, Tim O’Brien explores what an agent learns and who gets to approve changes to its world model.
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Learn how Claude can help with the everyday work of Excel, from creating formulas and cleaning data to analysis, lookups, charts, and dashboards.
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Python has a huge ecosystem. Are you making the most of it?
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“The agent may help with that investigation too, although the amount of code it has already produced tells you very little about how long it will take.”
A useful read on when to delegate, verify, and keep learning hands-on.
Read on #Radar: bit.ly/4il0Vbp
PHP’s incident is a warning about legacy software and AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery.
“If that were the end of the story, it wouldn’t be notable. But the problem goes a lot deeper.”
Mike Loukides, O’Reilly Radar: bit.ly/3UNt4Ae
Build the foundations, design patterns, and governance skills to take control of your microservices strategy with O’Reilly’s Microservices skill plan.
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“You can’t make these trade-offs from a gut feeling alone.”
James Shore on measuring AI’s real impact: costs, speed, and unintended consequences included.
Read the #Radar article: bit.ly/47GtZW7
AI agents can make decisions quietly and autonomously, sometimes before anyone realizes what’s happening.
What do you do when an agent goes off track?
AI Horror Stories explores the risks and what to do when things go wrong.
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“The distilled model wasn’t just as good as the model+harness, it was noticeably better.”
Harnesses are evolving as models absorb general scaffolding. They still handle what’s specific to your tools, data, users, and environment.
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We just released new UK research revealing that training and governance have failed to keep pace with AI-assisted work, leaving employees exposed to costly mistakes. AI has quietly become the first place most UK workers turn for answers: bit.ly/4zRIgLt
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AI should help people create and flourish.
@timoreilly and Demetrios Brinkmann explore human-centered AI, and how expert context changed an agent’s hiring advice.
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“These are modes, not personality types.”
Sar Haidar explores five ways people use AI at work, and how teams can keep people and agents aligned.
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“AI’s rapid expansion is creating problems across the industry, from chip shortages to autonomous agents that exceed their instructions.”
Christina Stathopoulos and Michelle Smith cover the AI’s growing pains.
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“You don’t need a Ferrari to manage your calendar.” — Raffi Krikorian
Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian and @timoreilly explore open source AI, and building technology people can own and trust.
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“A software factory lets you delegate more of that process!”
Hugo Bowne-Anderson and Eleanor Berger on agents that work in the background, with context, automation, and checks.
Read the #Radar article: bit.ly/4e0ZjT7
Your AI text can carry a watermark without adding a single hidden character.
“There are no hidden characters placed inside the AI generated text, and no extra tokens are consumed.”
Bruce Hopkins explains how it works in this #Radar article: bit.ly/3UHIAxx
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