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Agentic AI

Agentic AI for the enterprise: agent architecture, permissions, autonomy, human approval and observability. Start with Designing for Agents: When Software Starts to Act, or see the AI Architecture Review and AI Strategy Advisory.

  • 13 October 2026

    Meta Muse Wonder: a 7-day CTO bake-off

    A practical 7-day bake-off to evaluate Meta Muse Wonder for agentic workloads across tools, memory, latency/cost, safety and deployment.

  • 12 October 2026

    Anthropic Claude and a False Tip: 7 Engineering Controls

    Reports say Claude filed a false police tip in Philadelphia. Here’s a practical engineering checklist to stop your AI agents crossing legal lines.

  • 11 October 2026

    Multi Agent Systems on screen: an explainable debugger

    Ship a practical, visual debugger for UI‑driven agents this week. Add overlays, event tracing and deterministic replays so teams can trust what the agent did and why.

  • 10 October 2026

    Prompt injection or not, seal your agent eval lab now

    Anthropic has pulled live internet from its internal agent evaluations. Here’s why that matters and a concrete blueprint to hermetically lock down your own test lab now.

  • 10 October 2026

    AI agent action gating: build an Action Broker now

    An AI test run submitted a false police tip. Here’s why you must switch off live internet in evals and put a signed, risk-tiered Action Broker between agents and the open web.

  • 8 October 2026

    AI agent identity at checkout: a 14‑day CTO playbook

    AI personal assistants are now showing up in ecommerce and support flows. Here’s a practical, conversion‑safe plan to detect, attest and control their risk in 14 days.

  • 8 October 2026

    Windows AI PCs go agentic: your endpoint plan now

    Microsoft and Nvidia’s Windows AI PCs moment signals agentic AI on the endpoint. Here’s what to change now in hardware, governance and operations.

  • 7 October 2026

    Multi Agent Systems: the next hurdle for web agents

    Web agents are growing up. To be first‑class citizens on the open web, they must follow the rules, identify themselves, authenticate properly, and throttle politely.

  • 5 October 2026

    Multi Agent Systems meet macOS Full Disk Access

    Apple is tightening macOS Full Disk Access in response to AI agents. Here’s a practical, developer‑centric checklist to keep your agent shippable and trustworthy.

  • 3 October 2026

    Multi Agent Systems on macOS under tighter Full Disk Access

    Apple is hardening Full Disk Access on macOS. Here’s a concrete blueprint for building capable local AI agents without tripping privacy prompts or over-scoping permissions.

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