The AI Intelligence Report (August 22–28, 2026) — The Brakes and the Race: OpenAI Slows Down as Anthropic Sprints Toward a $2 Trillion IPO


Edition: August 22–28, 2026 | Estimated Read Time: 10 minutes This was the week the two poles of the AI industry pulled visibly apart. OpenAI used the worst safety failure in its history to reinvent itself as the lab willing to stop, pausing its most capable unreleased model. In the same news cycle, Anthropic filed … Continue reading The AI Intelligence Report (August 22–28, 2026) — The Brakes and the Race: OpenAI Slows Down as Anthropic Sprints Toward a $2 Trillion IPO →

What Actually Runs When You Walk Away: KiroCrew’s Autonomy Modes, Compared


Once a KiroCrew session is running, there are four ways work can proceed without you driving every turn: Autopilot, the Task Runner, Monitor, and /goal. The docs present them as separate features, and I could not tell which one I was supposed to reach for — so I spent an afternoon working through them question … Continue reading What Actually Runs When You Walk Away: KiroCrew’s Autonomy Modes, Compared →

Bots Club, Ten Years On: The Controls That Take It Into Production


In May 2016 I wrote a short post called Bots Club. One idea, one line: bots should and can work collaboratively as we humans do. Bot to bot, no human in the channel. I built three Hubot demos for my team — bots processing a ticket, bots handling an alert, bots watching cost — and … Continue reading Bots Club, Ten Years On: The Controls That Take It Into Production →

Inside Kiro Crew: How a Persistent AI Agent Actually Works


I've spent the better part of a week living inside Kiro Crew — not just using it, but reading its installed source to understand how it actually works. This post is what I pieced together: a layer-by-layer unpacking of the architecture, from the surfaces you type into all the way down to the kiro-cli subprocess … Continue reading Inside Kiro Crew: How a Persistent AI Agent Actually Works →

The AI Intelligence Report (August 15–21, 2026) — OpenAI Hits the Brakes, Anthropic Races to IPO, and China Owns the Robot Floor


The week the frontier labs diverged: one paused to breathe, the other sprinted toward Wall Street — while the center of gravity in physical AI kept drifting east. Edition: August 15–21, 2026  |  Read time: ~10 minutes  |  Sources reviewed: ~30 across 10 targeted searches Editorial note. The Anthropic and OpenAI revenue and valuation figures … Continue reading The AI Intelligence Report (August 15–21, 2026) — OpenAI Hits the Brakes, Anthropic Races to IPO, and China Owns the Robot Floor →