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Wednesday, February 25, 2026
AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

Three Labs Just Stole Claude's Brain. Here's What It Broke (And Why You Should Care)

Three Chinese AI labs were caught stealing Claude's capabilities through 16 million automated conversations across 24,000 fake accounts. However, this isn't fundamentally a China problem - it's a...

Universe of AI

Mercury 2: The World's Fastest Reasoning Model! Fast, Cheap, & Powerful! Beats Claude & Gemini!

Mercury 2 is a breakthrough AI model that uses diffusion technology instead of traditional autoregressive generation. It generates text in parallel rather than sequentially, allowing it to complete...

Simon Willison

Quoting Kellan Elliott-McCrea

Kellan Elliott-McCrea reflects on how different generations of tech workers view the current AI-driven transformation. He suggests that people who entered tech for the sense of agency it provided may...

Wes Roth

$1 Trillion Gone

AI companies like Anthropic are systematically destroying traditional software companies by releasing industry-specific automation capabilities. $1-2 trillion in software stock value has been wiped...

Simon Willison

Linear walkthroughs

Coding agents can create structured walkthroughs to help developers understand complex codebases they didn't write or have forgotten. Simon Willison demonstrates how he used Claude Code with his...

Tuesday, February 24, 2026
The Pragmatic Engineer

Building world-class engineering teams in the age of AI - The Pragmatic Summit

This panel discussion at The Pragmatic Summit explores how AI is fundamentally transforming software development teams at companies like Atlassian and GitHub. The conversation reveals that AI-native...

Simon Willison

go-size-analyzer

go-size-analyzer is a tool that analyzes Go binary sizes using treemap visualizations. The tool runs directly in browsers via WebAssembly, allowing developers to analyze compiled binaries without...

The Pragmatic Engineer

Data vs Hype: How Orgs Actually Win with AI - The Pragmatic Summit

The speaker presents fresh industry data showing that while 92.6% of developers use AI coding assistants, organizational transformation remains limited because companies focus on individual coding...

AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

Prompt Engineering Is Dead. Context Engineering Is Dying. What Comes Next Changes Everything.

The evolution from prompt engineering to context engineering was just the beginning - the real challenge now is intent engineering: making organizational purpose machine-readable so AI agents...

Simon Willison

First run the tests

Testing has become essential when working with AI coding agents. The simple prompt "First run the tests" is a powerful pattern that transforms how agents understand and work with codebases. This...