Tag: AI Agents
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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: NVIDIA Carves Out an Agent Execution Layer for the Desk-Side
by Chris DePuy / August 12, 2026 NVIDIA this week released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B MoE model with just 3B active parameters, and I think it is the clearest signal yet that the deskside inference market is splitting into two distinct tiers. The model is built for the high-volume execution layer of long-running…
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Grok Bot, Two Weeks In: The Always-On Agent Workforce Gets a Shared Computer and a Shared Security Boundary
by Chris DePuy / August 29, 2026 xAI launched Grok Bot in early beta on August 11, and in the two weeks since, the community has made the platform’s ambition concrete faster than the company’s own launch materials do. The product is not another chat interface — a Bot gets its own cloud computer, signs…
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Cloudflare is Helping to Paywall the Internet
Cloudflare is Helping to Paywall the Internet The 1990s Internet made information free. AI agents are making it billable. Since the mid-1990s, when the commercial Internet took off, the dominant bargain was simple: content for attention. You browsed, you clicked, you saw ads — and the publisher got paid by advertisers. Most information was free…
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From Prompts to Loops: Seismic Shift in AI Agent Workflows
A new paradigm shift from manually prompting AI agents to designing autonomous systems that prompt them occurred in June 2026.