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GPT-6 Astra Week: Real-World Takes and the Rogue Agent Problem

September 5, 2026

AI PM Research Saturday, September 5, 2026 GPT-6 Astra Week: Real-World Takes and the Rogue Agent Problem GPT-6 Astra launched this week and the takes that...

GPT-6 Astra Reviews, Platform Wars, and Agent Memory in Production

September 4, 2026

AI PM Research Friday, September 4, 2026 GPT-6 Astra Reviews, Platform Wars, and Agent Memory in Production GPT-6 Astra launched and practitioners are...

Cursor Goes Enterprise, Teresa Torres on AI Evals, and Julie Zhuo on Mandates

September 3, 2026

AI PM Research Thursday, September 3, 2026 Cursor Goes Enterprise, Teresa Torres on AI Evals, and Julie Zhuo on Mandates Three threads worth connecting...

Teresa Torres on AI Evals, Claude Fable 5.1, and Perplexity Goes Hybrid

September 2, 2026

AI PM Research Wednesday, September 2, 2026 Teresa Torres on AI Evals, Claude Fable 5.1, and Perplexity Goes Hybrid Teresa Torres just shipped a hands-on AI...

You Cannot Mandate an AI Transformation

September 1, 2026

AI PM Research Tuesday, September 1, 2026 You Cannot Mandate an AI Transformation Julie Zhuo argues AI transformation has to be pulled, not pushed — which...

AI Coworkers, Agent Registries, and Platform Stack Wars

August 31, 2026

AI PM Research Monday, August 31, 2026 AI Coworkers, Agent Registries, and Platform Stack Wars The "persistent AI coworker" framing is becoming the dominant...

AI's Third Era, Pieter Levels' Infinite Slop, and Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard

August 30, 2026

AI PM Research Sunday, August 30, 2026 AI's Third Era, Pieter Levels' Infinite Slop, and Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard Tara Seshan (OpenAI's product...

OpenAI Drops Cursor After SpaceX Acquisition

August 29, 2026

AI PM Research Saturday, August 29, 2026 OpenAI Drops Cursor After SpaceX Acquisition OpenAI publicly ended its model contract with Cursor after SpaceX...

Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard and AWS AgentCore Memory Updates

August 28, 2026

AI PM Research Friday, August 28, 2026 Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard and AWS AgentCore Memory Updates Two signals worth sitting with today: Anthropic...

Platform Sprawl, Agent Controls, and Cursor Goes Repo-Free

August 27, 2026

AI PM Research Thursday, August 27, 2026 Platform Sprawl, Agent Controls, and Cursor Goes Repo-Free LangSmith shipped runtime spend controls and fallback...

Proving AI ROI and the App Oversaturation Problem

August 26, 2026

AI PM Research Wednesday, August 26, 2026 Proving AI ROI and the App Oversaturation Problem Two threads worth pulling today: LangChain published a concrete...

Claude Code's UX Friction, Toyota's Agent Scale, and Figma's Enterprise MCP

August 25, 2026

AI PM Research Tuesday, August 25, 2026 Claude Code's UX Friction, Toyota's Agent Scale, and Figma's Enterprise MCP A builder-on-AI switches coding agents...

What $20K on Devin Looks Like, and Claude's Adoption Problem

August 24, 2026

AI PM Research Monday, August 24, 2026 What $20K on Devin Looks Like, and Claude's Adoption Problem A solo founder's $20K/month Devin experiment gives us the...

v0 Gets 100+ Integrations, Simon Willison on AI Code Review, and Rumman Chowdhury on the Consciousness Trap

August 23, 2026

AI PM Research Sunday, August 23, 2026 v0 Gets 100+ Integrations, Simon Willison on AI Code Review, and Rumman Chowdhury on the Consciousness Trap Vercel...

Platform Squeeze, Agent Governance, and the AI Tool That Finally Got Real Microphone Support

August 22, 2026

AI PM Research Saturday, August 22, 2026 Platform Squeeze, Agent Governance, and the AI Tool That Finally Got Real Microphone Support Three signals worth...

Replit Goes Free, LangSmith Gets Preview Builds, and ChatGPT Search Gets Sharper

August 21, 2026

AI PM Research Friday, August 21, 2026 Replit Goes Free, LangSmith Gets Preview Builds, and ChatGPT Search Gets Sharper Replit opened its doors with a free...

Cursor Goes Full Stack, OpenAI Locks Down Data, Mistral Ships Agentic Search

August 20, 2026

AI PM Research Thursday, August 20, 2026 Cursor Goes Full Stack, OpenAI Locks Down Data, Mistral Ships Agentic Search Cursor shipped cloud agent improvements...

Replit Goes Free, Agents Get Wallets, and Lenny Tests the New Coding Tools

August 19, 2026

AI PM Research Wednesday, August 19, 2026 Replit Goes Free, Agents Get Wallets, and Lenny Tests the New Coding Tools Three signals worth sitting with today:...

Cursor Launches Code Hosting, Agents Get Wallets, and OpenAI Builds for Teens

August 18, 2026

AI PM Research Tuesday, August 18, 2026 Cursor Launches Code Hosting, Agents Get Wallets, and OpenAI Builds for Teens Three distinct bets on what AI-native...

Solo Founder to Fashion Brand, AI Trust Crisis, and Vercel's Free Model Stack

August 17, 2026

AI PM Research Monday, August 17, 2026 Solo Founder to Fashion Brand, AI Trust Crisis, and Vercel's Free Model Stack A solo founder used Codex and computer...