Agentic AI rarely breaks because the model is wrong. It breaks because the workflow lies about how the real world behaves. Fixing autonomy is not about smarter reasoning. It is about guardrails, timing, memory limits, and designing systems that force agents to hesitate when humans naturally would.
The first week was painful.
AI has been evolving at breakneck speed over the last few years. We’ve gone from copilots lightly assisting humans to systems capable of taking over an entire workflow. My view: 2026 is when multi-agent systems will start to scale across the enterprise. In other words, swarms of agents will break down tasks, coordinate, pass context … Read more
In many engineering organisations, failure is treated as an event. An outage happens. A release goes wrong. A customer is affected. Only then does the system receive attention. Logs are inspected. Dashboards are reviewed. Post-mortems are written. The assumption is simple: if the failure was visible, it must have appeared recently. In practice, this assumption … Read more
The Bank of Japan raised its short-term policy rate by 25 basis points to 0.75%, the highest in nearly 30 years.
In a lawsuit, the SEC says some hosted Bitcoin mining services could trigger US securities laws, but an industry executive says most providers have nothing to worry about.
With most work finished, the ECB says the digital euro now depends on political approval as disucssion continues on sovereignty and privacy.
Bitwise has filed an initial registration for an ETF tracking Sui, joining the race to launch with Canary Captial and 21Shares.
Crypto has tracked lower late this year despite pro-regulation shifts, ETF launches, and institutional buying, prompting analysts to question structural issues.
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US President Donald Trump says that he has narrowed down his pick to replace Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to three or four candidates.
Cypherpunk Adam Back dismissed concerns that quantum computing poses a threat to Bitcoin, arguing the technology is still “ridiculously early.”
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In a package of confirmations, the U.S. Senate approved Mike Selig to lead the CFTC and Travis Hill to run the FDIC, both with major potential reach into crypto.
The deal closes a long-running drama in which U.S. authorities have sought to compel ByteDance to divest.
XRP has a “number of reasons” that are attracting traditional investor dollars, which has helped to push XRP ETFs over $1 billion in assets, says CF Benchmarks CEO Sui Chung.
Developers have begun testing new cryptography to guard against forged transactions and wallet theft, in preparation for a changing world.
Apple says it can now collect any money a developer owes the tech giant at any time.
Synthetix founder Kain Warwick expects other perpetual decentralized exchanges to follow Synthetix back to Ethereum, which is faster than ever.
TikTok has finalized the deal to sell its US business, according to reports from Axios, The Hollywood Reporter, and CNBC. They report that a memo from TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew to employees on Thursday said the deal will close on January 22nd, with Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi’s MGX owning 45 percent of … Read more