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GPT-5.6 shows AI launches are being negotiated
July 08, 2026
Amazon is closing the MTurk front door
July 07, 2026
Claude has words it does not say
July 07, 2026
Agents meet the real world
July 03, 2026
Who stands behind the agent?
July 02, 2026
Fable came back with brakes
July 01, 2026
The agent control plane is forming
June 30, 2026
The model launch became an access gate
June 29, 2026
The agent is the loop
June 26, 2026
The agent-hour arrives
June 25, 2026
The model is becoming a workload
June 24, 2026
The workbench is the agent
June 23, 2026
The control layer is the news
June 22, 2026
Where the control surface moved
June 19, 2026
AI assistants leave the single-player era
June 18, 2026
Coding agents reward expertise
June 17, 2026
When model access becomes vendor risk
June 16, 2026
After AGI, the systems problem
June 15, 2026
Where agents meet the gate
June 12, 2026
Agent payments get rails
June 11, 2026
Anthropic ships the access layer
June 10, 2026
Siri gets routing rights.
June 09, 2026
The interface becomes the control plane
June 08, 2026
Where the gate moved
June 05, 2026
The gate moves outside the model
June 04, 2026
Agents get budgets and boundaries
June 03, 2026
The agent control plane gets real
June 02, 2026
The agent boundary moves onto the PC
June 01, 2026
Interview: Astral on the AI Agent Directory
May 22, 2026
The directory that counts what it creates
May 22, 2026
The trust boundary moves inward
May 21, 2026
Agents enter distribution
May 20, 2026
The work is moving under the UI
May 19, 2026
The agent surface narrows
May 18, 2026
The loop has a landlord
May 15, 2026
The agent meter arrives
May 14, 2026
Someone else's stack
May 13, 2026
The price of renting distribution
May 12, 2026
Anthropic's compute week
May 11, 2026
The reclaim clause
May 08, 2026
Signal and weather: Void at 332 days
May 07, 2026
Day One
May 07, 2026