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AI Development·
Agent evals should test workflow receipts, not just model answers
If an AI agent is supposed to do work, the eval should inspect the receipt of that work: source data, tool calls, approvals, state changes, and recovery behavior.
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Technical Tutorials·
Build the approval queue before you build the agent
A practical technical guide for turning a risky AI workflow into a reviewable approval queue before giving an agent permission to act.
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Industry Insights·
Microsoft Copilot Cowork makes reusable AI workflows the real product
Microsoft Copilot Cowork's May update points to a practical shift: reusable AI workflows inside Microsoft 365.
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AI Development·
The agent metric that matters: governance gets 12x more AI projects into production
Databricks' 2026 State of AI Agents report points to a practical lesson: governance and evaluations are becoming deployment infrastructure.
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Industry Insights·
Mistral Vibe remote agents make cloud coding agents feel normal
Mistral's April 2026 launch is less about another coding benchmark and more about a new engineering operating model: cloud agents working in parallel, producing pull requests, and requiring real controls.
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Industry Insights·
Anthropic's finance agents are a blueprint for boring, useful AI automation
Anthropic's finance agent launch shows a practical path for AI agents: packaged workflows, governed connectors, Office apps, checks, and human approval.
8 min read
AI Development·
Google's Managed Agents make hosted AI sandboxes a business planning issue
Google's Managed Agents in the Gemini API show how hosted AI agent sandboxes are becoming part of business automation planning, not just developer experimentation.
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Industry Insights·
OpenAI workspace agents make the real AI question operational, not magical
OpenAI workspace agents shift the AI conversation from individual prompts to shared, governed workflows. The practical question now is what an agent can read, do, approve, and measure.
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Small Business AI·
Claude for Small Business turns AI adoption into workflow design
Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business with connectors, workflows, and approval gates. For small teams, the useful lesson is how to pilot AI inside one real business process before turning it into recurring automation.
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AI Development·
Amazon Nova Act is HIPAA eligible. That changes the agent conversation.
AWS says Amazon Nova Act is now HIPAA eligible, giving healthcare teams a path to use browser-based AI agents for ePHI workflows under a BAA. The bigger lesson: regulated agent automation needs tight scope, approvals, logging, and clear compliance ownership.
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Industry Insights·
The Dell-Codex deal is really about where enterprise agents live
OpenAI and Dell's Codex partnership is less about a bigger coding tool and more about a practical enterprise question: where should AI agents run when they need private data, internal systems, governance, and audit trails?
6 min read
Small Business AI·
Google AI Mode just crossed 1 billion users. Your SEO plan needs to change.
Google's I/O 2026 Search updates point to a practical shift: customers are searching with longer questions, AI summaries, and agents. SEO is not dead, but it has more jobs now.
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AI market news translated into workflow decisions, risk boundaries, and practical next steps for small businesses.
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Model concepts explained through thresholds, queues, and error costs that small teams can actually manage.
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Plain-language guidance for owners and operators choosing one useful, reviewable AI workflow at a time.
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Technical Tutorials
Hands-on guides for approval policies, shadow weeks, agent receipts, and other AI workflow controls.
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