Agentic AI has reached the Peak of Inflated Expectations! According to Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Agentic AI, the focus is shifting from initial excitement about AI agents to a deeper understanding of how agentic AI technologies are maturing. #AgenticAI #AIagent
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LangChain at Google Cloud Next 2026: AI Agents Booth
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Google Cloud Next starts this week. If you’re attending, come find us at Booth #5006. We’ll be running demos and having technical conversations around building, evaluating, and scaling AI agents. Check out everything we’re up to at Next: https://
langchain.com/blog/join-lang
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Evermind Hackathon Winners: 400+ Participants, 73 Creative AI Submissions
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This is the list of winners from @evermind
's hackathon competition. Every submission receives a participation award worth $100, plus a small souvenir. In the end, over 400 people signed up, and we received 73 submissions. Many of the works were bursting with imagination, -
Investing in Agent-First Companies and Claude’s Build vs Buy Behavior
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im actively trying to invest in companies that agents would be the main users of one interesting thing i saw in a report somewhere was does claude code buy or build – and it built tools in the majority of cases. so this could go against my thesis too in some respects
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NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3 Models for Advanced Reasoning
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NVIDIA just dropped new open Nemotron models, including Nemotron 3 Super for long-context reasoning and VoiceChat for natural, low-latency conversations. Great resources for developers: https://
developer.nvidia.com/blog/building-
nvidia-nemotron-3-agents-for-reasoning-multimodal-rag-voice-and-safety/
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Virtual Intelligence Operations Center: Building Your Own VIOC
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Don’t we all need our own Virtual Intelligence and Operations Center (VIOC)? @openclaw can make that happen: https://
open.substack.com/pub/bobgourley
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SlapStop App Wins Agent Content Challenge Week 4
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Week 4 winner of the Agent 4 Content Challenge:
— Replit ⠕ (@Replit) 20 avril 2026
Rizwan Ahmed 🎉@rizwanahmedmp4
Built: SlapStop, a group accountability app where friends slap each other if they doomscroll. pic.twitter.com/HgJ3XasA4KWeek 4 winner of the Agent 4 Content Challenge: Rizwan Ahmed @rizwanahmedmp4 Built: SlapStop, a group accountability app where friends slap each other if they doomscroll.
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Users Growth: People and Agents Ratio Impact on Revenue
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users (people + agents, i think the agent to people ratio will be what goes bananas) which could obv knock on to rev+usage
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Agentic AI Enables Self-Optimizing Autonomous Intelligent Agents
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Automation executes. Autonomy reasons. 🧠
— NVIDIA AI (@NVIDIAAI) 20 avril 2026
Using Agentic AI, operators are now deploying intelligent agents that can self-optimize, self-heal, and self-configure.
➡️ https://t.co/A1bcxck9I2 pic.twitter.com/241Oc1hiM8Automation executes. Autonomy reasons. Using Agentic AI, operators are now deploying intelligent agents that can self-optimize, self-heal, and self-configure. https://
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Persona Selection and AI Honesty: Why Alignment Remains Challenging
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If Persona Selection underlies alignment, why is it hard to get AIs to be honest? Tell them they're Fred Rogers or Immanuel Kant (I asked Claude for figures who never lied or never got caught). Or tell them they're Ged of Earthsea, or Ned Stark. LLMs surely have neural