A lot of interest has been garnered by large language models (LLMs) and their abilities, but there’s one ability that remains solely human. We don’t share it with mammals or machines. That ability is called “theory of mind,” and it’s the mind-reading ability that allows us to coordinate and collaborate with others. Mind reading sounds … continue reading
GitLab has made its Duo Agent Platform generally available, providing development teams with agentic AI automation that has access to an organization’s full context, standards, and guardrails. The GA release includes Agentic Chat, providing context-aware assistance throughout the GitLab platform. Agentic Chat builds on the previously released Duo Chat, and brings in context from issues, … continue reading
Organizations that have modernized their applications are three times more likely to see a clear ROI on their AI investments compared to those that haven’t, according to a new survey from Cloudflare. The 2026 App Innovation Report found that 93% of leaders believe that updating their software was “the single most important factor in boosting … continue reading
Box announced the launch of Box Extract, which intelligently pulls information from content and saves it as metadata, helping organizations automate workflows and accelerate decision-making by making information more easily accessible. According to the company, a lot of organizational knowledge lives in contracts, product specifications, policy documents, charts, and other types of unstructured content. Box … continue reading
Kaggle has announced that it now offers Community Benchmarks, enabling AI practitioners to design, run, and share their own benchmarks for evaluating AI models. Kaggle is a community platform run by Google that offers models and resources for data scientists and machine learning practitioners. Last year, it had introduced Kaggle Benchmarks to provide evaluations from … continue reading
Salesforce announced that the newly redesigned Slackbot is now generally available, offering users an out-of-the-box AI agent that lives within Slack. “By bringing the full power of the Agentic Enterprise where billions of workplace conversations already happen every week, working with enterprise-grade AI becomes as natural as talking to a coworker,” Salesforce wrote in an … continue reading
Google has announced a new open-source standard for agentic commerce called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). Developed in collaboration with a number of commerce companies, including Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target, and Walmart, UCP establishes a common language and primitives for the commerce journey between consumer surfaces, businesses, and payment providers. “As consumers embrace conversational experiences, … continue reading
Anthropic makes Skills an open standard Skills—a capability that allows users to teach Claude repeatable workflows—was first introduced in October, and now the company is making it an open standard. “Like MCP, we believe skills should be portable across tools and platforms—the same skill should work whether you’re using Claude or other AI platforms,” the … continue reading
AI workslop is any AI-generated work that masquerades as professional output but lacks substance to advance any task meaningfully. If you’ve received a report that took you three reads to realize it said nothing, an email that used three paragraphs where one sentence would do, or a presentation with visually stunning slides containing zero actionable … continue reading
I’ve been teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design for 18 years. This semester, for the first time, students lined up after my opening lecture, asking the same question: “What’s the role of AI in the design field? How do I prepare for this?” Their concerns mirror what I’m hearing from senior UX leaders … continue reading
Articles about AI dominated media coverage in 2025, as the ability to perform more than just rudimentary tasks grew into making software development life cycle processes autonomous. The widespread piloting and implementation of generative AI, agents and MCP servers were among the topics that produced the top trending articles on sdtimes.com this year. But AI … continue reading
Patronus AI has announced Generative Simulators, which are simulation environments that can create new tasks and scenarios, update the rules of the world over time, and evaluate an agent’s actions as it learns. According to the company, as AI systems move from answering single questions to executing multi-step workflows, the static tests and training data … continue reading
