According to Nikkei Asia, five U.S. tech giants have an estimated $1.65 trillion in hidden debt related to AI infrastructure, recorded in quarterly financial statements rather than balance sheets. This accepted accounting practice may catch investors off guard when the figures come to light.
Meta and Oracle have particularly high off-balance-sheet debt ratios, with Meta's unlisted debts at $420B.
Hidden debt stems from long-term contracts, mainly with data center operators.
AI Maestro orchestrates AI coding agents to work on a task board, turning software delivery into a coordinated multi-agent pipeline rather than a single chat session.
Board-based workflow ensures work survives context resets and parallel sessions.
Each ticket specifies its own agent pipeline and model for optimal task-model matching.
Software delivery lifecycle company Harness launched its AI Agent Development Lifecycle (DLC) service to apply the same governance, testing, and security used for application code to AI agents. The challenge is agents' non-deterministic nature; Harness focuses on making the pipeline predictable rather than the agent itself. It introduces five new capabilities: AI Evals, Agent deployments, AI configs, AI asset catalog, and AgentTrace, along with open-sourcing foundational components. The goal is to enable safe, governed agentic deployments.
Harness launches AI Agent DLC to apply code delivery pipeline governance to agent development.
Agents are non-deterministic; Harness advocates for predictable pipelines around them.
The article argues that AI coding tools can hinder the development of expertise, especially for novice developers. It cites studies showing that reliance on AI assistants leads to worse learning outcomes and creates an 'illusion of competence'. True expertise requires friction and problem-solving. It suggests using AI as a Socratic partner rather than an answer generator.
AI coding tools require expertise to use effectively but can diminish the expertise they require.
Studies show novices who heavily rely on AI perform worse, while those who limit usage perform better.
Stele is a shared memory ledger for AI coding agents that records decisions, tasks, and lessons. It reads context before every action and writes back knowledge, ensuring continuity across tools and sessions. The system automatically maintains the graph, flags stale entries, and allows task coordination without duplication. Invite-only beta.
Stele provides a unified project memory that AI agents read and write, preventing repeated mistakes.
It integrates with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and other agents, enabling seamless tool switching.
OpenAI launches Presence, deploying AI agents already used on its own support line to enterprise phone and chat channels. The product emphasizes trust and reliability, with carefully defined permissions and escalation paths, and is supported by OpenAI's engineers for customization and integration. Presence is currently limited to eligible enterprise customers, with early design partners including BBVA, SoftBank, and IAG.
OpenAI announces Presence, bringing its internal AI customer support agents to enterprise phone and chat channels.
Agents are restricted to a single, specific task with permissions set by the company, not OpenAI.
Perplexity's Mac app offers its own agentic AI, Personal Computer, which can handle multi-step tasks on your computer from start to finish. See why the results impressed me.
Perplexity Personal Computer accesses local files, controls apps, connects to cloud services, and interacts with web pages via Comet browser.
The author tested 5 tasks including creating calendar events, organizing desktop files, searching and summarizing emails, setting timers, and automating workflows.
A free, open-source Chrome extension that displays your Claude plan usage limits (5-hour limit, weekly limit, extra credits), a live token counter for the context window, and a prompt-cache countdown directly on claude.ai. No account, no analytics, no external servers: it reads the same usage data the Claude settings page uses, entirely inside your browser.
Shows Claude's 5-hour limit usage as a percentage with a reset countdown, pinned to the top of the page or as a slim line inside the chat box.
Hover for a plan panel with four rows: 5-hour limit, Weekly all models, Extra credits, Routines, each with percent used and reset time.
Imbue open-sources Catalyst, an evolution-inspired AI research tool that improves nanochat LLM performance 3x further than standard AutoResearch. The post explains why linear agents get stuck and how evolving interpretation strands helps escape dead ends.
Imbue open-sources Catalyst, an evolution-based research tool. Its solver achieves val_bpb 0.9361 on nanochat, outperforming AutoResearch baselines. Linear agents suffer from tunnel vision and hypothesis collapse. Catalyst maintains a population of interpretation strands that evolve via branching and fitness scoring.
Known for his clear and elegant writing style, Bertsekas shaped fields from control and optimization to large-scale computation and artificial intelligence.
Dimitri Bertsekas, MIT professor emeritus, passed away on June 3 at age 83.
He authored over 20 influential books on optimization, control, and AI.
CoreBase has a new look. It offers a governed infrastructure layer for building and deploying AI agents with built-in connectors, permissions, audit trails, and cost controls, enabling trusted AI agents for your product.
CoreBase provides a governed infrastructure layer for AI agents.
Includes connectors, permissions, audit trails, and cost controls.
Natural has raised $30M in Series A funding led by Forerunner Ventures to build payment infrastructure for AI agents, aiming to compete with Stripe. The company has launched six products including FDIC-insured wallets and vaults, with plans to ship 13 products in its first year. Despite low current transaction volumes, the agentic payments market is forecast to grow to $93 billion by 2032.
Natural raises $30M Series A, total funding over $40M, led by Forerunner Ventures.
Building payment rails for AI agents, including wallets, settlement, fraud, and compliance.
Codify is an open-source tool that lets you manage and automate developer environments using declarative configs and an AI assistant. It supports cross-platform, team collaboration, and security auditing.
Define environments as code with version control and team sharing.
Built-in AI agent generates and applies configs from natural language.
Samsung's summer Unpacked event unveiled new foldables, a smartwatch, and smart glasses with deep Gemini AI integration, including task automation, preinstalled Gemini Notebook, and glasses-watch synergy.
Gemini Intelligence enables cross-app task automation like booking tickets and ordering food on new Galaxy devices.
Gemini Notebook comes preinstalled on Galaxy Z Flip 8 and Z Fold 8 series, leveraging large screens for productivity.
Samsung has given us our first chance to check out its upcoming smart glasses in person, revealing two new designs and first specs including a 9-hour battery life. Developed with Google, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker, the glasses are due this fall. Powered by Snapdragon AR1, they support Gemini or Bixby, but privacy remains a concern.
Samsung, Google, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker collaborate on smart glasses launching this fall.
Lightweight design resembles normal glasses; features camera, speakers, and microphones.