agents

DeepMind’s roughly six-minute overview video, “Generating novel scientific hypotheses with Co-Scientist,” opens not with a product demo but with a confession from scientists: the firehose of new literature has long since outpaced the humans trying to drink from it. One researcher describes having “hundreds of Chrome tabs and papers open.” Another says the amount of knowledge needed to stay at the frontier of a field now doubles roughly every two months....

Weekly Video Notes — a short article distilling one talk from the weekly digest. Source video and key frames are embedded throughout. Ron Minsky opens his talk with a self-deprecating framing: he’s the guy who’s spent a career advocating for rigorous engineering — strong types, OCaml, careful testing, taking code review seriously — and now, in the era of coding agents, he’s back to tell you that all that stuff is now more important, not less....

Weekly Video Notes — a short article distilling one talk from the weekly digest. Source video and key frames are embedded throughout. What’s better than one GPT-5.5 Pi coding agent? Two GPT-5.5 Pi coding agents that can actually talk to each other. That’s the opening provocation of IndyDevDan’s latest video, and it leads into a deceptively simple shift in multi-agent design: drop the orchestrator, give every agent a two-way communication channel to every other agent, and let the best information win....

Weekly Video Notes — a short article distilling one talk from the weekly digest. Source video and key frames are embedded throughout. LangChain’s annual conference Interrupt 2026 opened with co-founder Harrison Chase laying out a thesis the company has been quietly building toward for two years: agents aren’t software, and you can’t ship them with a software lifecycle. What follows are the key ideas from the keynote, plus the half-dozen product launches LangChain announced to back the thesis....