April 2026, continued 20

  1. Security & Risk

    Agent Identity Is the Infrastructure Gap Nobody Wants to Admit

    Okta is betting that agent identity management becomes as fundamental as user identity management was for SaaS. They might be right.

    1 min read

  2. Agents & Tooling

    You Feel Faster. Are You?

    A randomized controlled study found AI tools made experienced developers 19% slower. They thought they'd been sped up by 20%.

    1 min read

  3. Agents & Tooling

    Claude Code Channels: When Your Agent Gets a Phone Number

    Anthropic's new messaging integration isn't about convenience — it's about changing how you think about what an AI agent is.

    1 min read

  4. Security & Risk

    MCP Just Changed Hands. Watch What Happens Next.

    Anthropic donating MCP to the Linux Foundation is good governance — and a signal that the easy days of fast iteration are probably over.

    1 min read

  5. Agents & Tooling

    SoN Vol 2, Issue 13: Are your tools deciding how you think? (Free Edition)

    Are your tools deciding how you think? (Free Edition) Hey there, Are your tools deciding how you think? Your CRM shows you a flat list. Your project tracker shows you a board.…

    3 min read

  6. Agents & Tooling

    "Agentic" Is the New Cloud

    Every vendor is calling their product agentic. Almost none of them are.

    1 min read

  7. Security & Risk

    Your AI Proxy Layer Just Became a Target

    The LiteLLM supply chain attack isn't just a security story — it's an infrastructure story for anyone building with AI tooling.

    1 min read

  8. Security & Risk

    Your Code Review Process Isn't Built for This Volume

    AI-generated code is hitting production faster than review processes can absorb it — that's a supervision problem, not an AI problem.

    1 min read

  9. Security & Risk

    Grammarly's Lawsuit Is About Identity, Not Just Data

    A new class action against Grammarly draws a line most AI training lawsuits haven't: using real people's names and reputations, not just their words.

    1 min read

  10. Agents & Tooling

    MCP Just Crossed the Chasm

    This week, MCP went from developer protocol to mainstream integration layer — and most AI newsletters missed it.

    1 min read

  11. Working with AI

    The Promises Failed, Not the Technology

    AI fatigue is real, but the backlash is aimed at the wrong target.

    1 min read

  12. Security & Risk

    The Safety Company Keeps Leaking

    Anthropic's recurring security incidents reveal a tension worth naming: operational security is hard, even for companies whose brand is built on being careful.

    1 min read

March 2026 54

  1. Agents & Tooling

    Microsoft's Copilot Now Uses Two Models to Fact-Check One

    Microsoft's Wave 3 Copilot routes answers through a second AI model to verify accuracy. That's useful — and a quiet admission about single-model trust.

    1 min read

  2. Security & Risk

    The New Shadow IT Isn't Employees Using ChatGPT

    AI agents are generating mobile app traffic that security teams can't see. Shadow AI moved from 'people using tools' to 'tools using tools'.

    1 min read

  3. Security & Risk

    Perplexity Pulled a Perk and Hoped Nobody Would Notice

    Perplexity Pro quietly removed $5 monthly API credits from its $20 plan. No announcement, no changelog.

    1 min read

  4. Agents & Tooling

    Codex Plugins Are a Confession About Who's Winning

    OpenAI launched 20 plugins to push Codex beyond coding. The move tells you everything about where the developer ecosystem actually lives.

    1 min read

  5. Security & Risk

    Your AI Provider's Ethics Are Now a Business Risk

    Anthropic refused Pentagon weapons contracts and got sanctioned. A court blocked it. Here's what that means if you build on Claude.

    1 min read

  6. Security & Risk

    Apple Just Validated Your Multi-AI Approach

    Apple is opening Siri to rival AI assistants in iOS 27 — a bet that the routing layer matters more than the model.

    1 min read

  7. Security & Risk

    The Money Just Noticed the Agent Security Problem

    Bessemer's new report on AI agent security says what practitioners have known for months. Now comes the flood.

    1 min read

  8. Security & Risk

    The Government Just Told You to Stop Vibe Coding Without Guardrails

    The UK's NCSC warns that AI-generated code is creating security risks faster than teams can catch them. The fix isn't stopping — it's checking.

    1 min read