Guide · Agents
How to design trust into AI agents
Wrapping a chat prompt around a rigid workflow does not make it an agent. Here is a shop metaphor — cashier, handbook, till, manager — for designing agentic systems a team will actually trust.
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News · Models
Claude Fable 5.1 ships, 45% cheaper for agents
Anthropic's new flagship costs up to 45% less for agentic work thanks to lower cache-read pricing, and addresses customer complaints on cost, data residency and safety filters in a single release.
News · Infrastructure
AWS puts dashboards inside AI chat windows
AI agents tell you what they think went wrong — verifying them still means tab-switching out to a browser. AWS has put the dashboards in the same chat thread.
News · Infrastructure
NVIDIA ships Groq 3 LPX at scale
NVIDIA's rack-scale accelerator for low-latency agent inference is now in full production, with European AI cloud Nebius first to deploy it. UK teams won't buy the hardware — but the speed will reach them through the AI services they already pay for.
News · Creative AI
AWS publishes agentic creative workflows with fal
AWS has published a step-by-step guide to wiring Amazon Quick — its agent workspace — to fal, a platform with 1,000+ generative media models, so small creative teams can save repeat jobs (like a weekly storyboard or social cut) as one-click Skills with built-in approval gates.
Analysis · Models
Alibaba previews Qwen4 at one-twelfth the price
Alibaba's Qwen team ships a 125B-parameter mixture-of-experts model that beats much larger rivals on coding and office benchmarks — and undercuts Qwen3.8-Max by an order of magnitude on token pricing.
News · Agents
Five shifts OpenAI just telegraphed
Tibo, OpenAI's product lead for ChatGPT and Codex, laid out five trends in a 44-minute interview. Each one is something a UK operator can probe this afternoon.
Analysis · Local & Open
The two-month Qwen pattern is back
A local-AI user has spotted a Qwen release rhythm: every heavy-reasoning drop gets a leaner sibling about two months later. The 2026 heavy drop is out, and the leaner follow-up may be too — but only behind a paywall, with the matching open weights still missing.
Analysis · Local Models
Qwen 3.8 27B holds up at small sizes
Quality measurements show small compressed files for Qwen 3.8 27B land within a few per cent of full precision — and a 16GB card is the biggest winner.
Analysis · Local & Open
Dual 3090s: the bottleneck isn't the GPU
A reader with two RTX 3090s asks whether their Qwen3.8-27B performance is normal. Two fresh single-3090 benchmarks this week say yes — and pin down where the real ceiling sits.
News · Models
Ornith-1.5 matches Opus 4.8 on coding
A US open-source lab ships a three-size family — 9B, 35B and 397B — that ties Anthropic's flagship on coding. The training method is the bigger story.
Analysis · Infrastructure
Kog says GPUs aren't the wrong fit
A French startup is making the software-first case against Cerebras's silicon-first one — and Europe is bankrolling the bet.
News · Agents
Caveman 2 cuts input tokens by 33%
Caveman 2, a free add-on for Claude Code, Codex and 30+ agents, shrinks what they read by a third on a pinned benchmark. A separate training effort teaches smaller models to reason terse by default. The skill is yours this afternoon.
Thought Leaders
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Simon Willison
Independent researcher and prolific writer on practical LLM tooling, local models and the day-to-day craft of building with AI. Essential reading for anyone running models themselves.
Local Models LLM Tooling Open Source
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Demis Hassabis
Nobel laureate and CEO of Google DeepMind, steering frontier model research from the UK. The clearest anchor point for Britain's sovereign-AI ambitions and the science-first frontier.
Sovereign AI Frontier Models Science
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Andrew Ng
One of AI's foremost educators and a leading voice on agentic workflows — turning frontier capability into practical patterns small teams can actually adopt.
Agentic Workflows AI Education
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Andrej Karpathy
The field's clearest explainer — coined 'Software 2.0', 'Software 3.0' and 'vibe coding'. He turns each shift in how AI is built into a mental model practitioners actually use.
Agentic Engineering AI Education
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Jensen Huang
Builds the compute the whole AI era runs on. His GTC keynotes set the industry's agenda — and in 2026 that agenda is the 'age of agents' and physical AI.
AI Infrastructure Agentic AI