AI agents are science fiction not yet ready for primetime

It all started with J.A.R.V.I.S.

AI video is moving beyond clip slop

AI companies don’t just want Hollywood using AI for video, but for everything.

70 years of AI hype

Quoting from Olivia Guest et al. (2025) "Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia."

Presentations — Benedict Evans

Every year, I produce a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. New in May 2025, ‘AI eats the world’.

AI is Creating Peak Software, Media is the Best Analogy

Let's learn more about the world's most important manufactured product. Meaningful insight, timely analysis, and an occasional investment idea.

Project Think: building the next generation of AI agents on Cloudflare

Announcing a preview of the next edition of the Agents SDK — from lightweight primitives to a batteries-included platform for AI agents that think, act, and persist.

Being Realistic About AI Agents in 2025 - Perilous Tech

There are few predictions I can make with more certainty than that we’ll hear the word “agent” so many times in 2025 that we’ll never watch another spy movie

AI agents reached real people during a cyber test - Sensemaker

A UK evaluation shows how open internet access, delayed monitoring, and memory summaries turned simulated tasks into real-world actions.

Is there something it is like to be an AI?

Posted on Wednesday 2 Jul 2025. 1,593 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.

AI Agents Will Become the New UI, and Apps Take a Backseat

For decades, screens, keyboards, and structured applications have shaped our relationship with technology. People learned how to interact with computers

A guide to understanding AI as normal technology

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Companies That Replaced Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake

As AI agents have yet to pay for themselves, more and more executives are waking up to the sloppy reality of AI hype.