
What Is the Agent Control Plane and Who Will Own It?
Salesforce, Microsoft, Oracle and OpenAI are opening products to each other. Here is what the agent control plane is and why enterprise vendors want it.
How engineers use AI, how to do it well, and what it means for your job. Written for people who ship and run the software, not people who build models.

Salesforce, Microsoft, Oracle and OpenAI are opening products to each other. Here is what the agent control plane is and why enterprise vendors want it.

Hugo is a furry humanoid robot from Dynamic Creatures with 57 joints and 43 actuators, run by a human remotely today, with customer tests planned for 2027.

When does one shared on-prem GB300 workstation beat cloud APIs or a Spark per person? Privacy, token costs, model policy control, and scaling.

Phonon 2 averages 5.21% WER on Open ASR leaderboard English sets in 164MB, 15x smaller than Parakeet. See where it holds up and where it fails.

Haiku, Sonnet, Opus and Fable compared on cost, speed and task fit, plus when Fable 5.1 is worth paying for and how the /advisor command helps.

Run Fermion Research's 164 MB Phonon 2 ASR model on CPU only. Install steps, CPU timings, the OpenAI-compatible server, accuracy numbers and license notes.

Set up Grokbot step by step: create your first bot, connect Gmail and Drive, pin a chief of staff, and organize a multi-agent research desk.

Install Surya OCR 2.5 with pip, launch the Streamlit GUI, and run it on CPU or about 1.8 GB of VRAM. Covers backends, output formats, speed, and limits.

Anthropic's S-1 shows $4.585B 2025 revenue, over $16B in H1 2026, an $80B net loss, and a listing expected near Nov 16 at $1.5T to $2T.

Setup guide for Grok Bot's new pages and slides, Apple app connections, 1Password vaults, memory import and an iPhone Action Button voice shortcut.

Surya OCR 2.5 tested on invoices, handwriting, an 1883 newspaper, LaTeX, Hindi, Arabic, Urdu and Yoruba. See where it works and where it fails.

HP's ZGX Fury puts Nvidia's GB300 under a desk with 748GB of memory and 7.1 TB/s HBM. Here are the specs, ZRT software and measured multi-user throughput.

Cline Pass costs $9.99 a month for open models like Kimi K3.1 Pro, GLM 5.3 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, with 5-hour, weekly and monthly caps. What it covers.

Google's EGM plugin has an agent write a design doc, then fresh sub-agents review it. Install steps for Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity, plus commands.

Should a plumber replace its answering service with an AI voice agent? Compare coverage, costs, missed-call math, and low-risk ways to start.

Qwen 27B taught Qwen 4B three ways: teacher answers, probabilities, on-policy. All landed near 58% versus the 64% teacher, but one cut tokens 30%.

A step-by-step AI consulting process: find the bottleneck with RACE, goal factor into actions, build, deploy, iterate with evals, and roll out company-wide.

A practical guide to distilling a large LLM into a small one: the four-tries headroom test, tokenizer matching, vLLM memory limits, and when to stop training.

Broccoli uses AI voice, text and SMS to run the front office for home-service contractors. Here is what it does and how its YC founders found the idea.

Sage A1.5 is a 35B MoE agentic model from Intern. See the reported 38 GB VRAM with llama.cpp, how it was trained, and how it handled sub-agent tasks.

Backside power relaxes front-side pitch, so Intel can print 14A layers in one high-NA pass while TSMC sticks to double-patterned EUV. Plus Intel's PDK lessons.

How transistors moved from planar to FinFET to gate-all-around, and why GAA, demonstrated in 1988, only reached volume production at Samsung in 2022.

Hands-on test of DiffuSpace's Clover-35B-A3B-Preview diffusion LLM: bug fix, coding, multilingual and logic puzzle results versus its benchmark claims.

Qwen Audio Agent is open source, but the DashScope voice front end and Claude Code back end bill separately. Here is where usage comes from.