Cloudflare gave every AI agent its own computer, a wallet and a domain this week
Cloudflare’s second Agents Week (3 August 2026) shipped the plumbing for AI agents: a virtual computer per agent, funded wallets, private mesh and more.
Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Max: a 2.4-trillion-parameter frontier model, and the weights are coming
Alibaba launched Qwen3.8-Max on 3 August 2026: 2.4T parameters, a 1M-token window, open weights promised, and pricing well under Claude Opus 5.
AI for Business
Second Opinion: The Hotel Price Was Never Set by a Human. Here Is the Data Behind the Curtain
Hotel and Airbnb prices come from algorithms, not people, and the pro data behind them is getting cheap. A second opinion on Angus Sewell’s vibe-coded booking edge.
AI for Business
Second Opinion: Your AI Keeps Choking on Your CRM. The Fix Is Not a Bigger Model
More context makes your AI worse, not better. A look at Angus Sewell’s three-layer AI-native CRM, the research that backs it, and where the build gets fragile.
How to Run Your First Local AI in 20 Minutes (No Jargon)
A genuine beginner’s guide to running an AI model on your own computer: install Ollama, one line to download a model, an optional chat window, honest hardware expectations, and what local AI is (and isn’t) good at. Part 3 of Own Your AI.
Second Opinion: 95% of Company AI Projects Are Flopping. The Fix Isn’t Better Tech, It’s Training Your Own People
MIT found 95% of enterprise AI projects deliver no return. The problem isn’t the models, it’s a learning gap, which is exactly what Angus the Nontechnical argues: buy training, not tech. An original take, with a caveat the vendors won’t give you.
The Best AI Video Generators in 2026: Veo, Runway, Kling and the One That Got Cancelled
Veo, Kling, Runway, Hailuo, Luma, Pika and music-video specialist Neural Frames, ranked and compared using what Reddit and reviewers report.
Best AI Music Generators 2026: Suno, Udio and the Licensing Wars, Ranked
Suno, Udio, ElevenLabs and more, ranked on quality, price and who is actually cleared to use. What Reddit and reviewers really say.
The Best AI Image Generators Right Now: Nano Banana, Midjourney V8, FLUX and the Rest, Ranked
Nano Banana Pro, Midjourney V8.1, FLUX, GPT Image, Ideogram and Firefly, ranked and compared on what users, Reddit and reviewers actually report.
The US Government Wrote PsiQuantum Its Biggest Cheque Yet: $125m to Prove It Can Build the Thing
PsiQuantum signed a $125m expanded DARPA deal on 22 July 2026, its largest US government contract, to validate its utility-scale photonic quantum design.