Chain of News 14/03/2026

My fireside chat about agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit

I was a speaker last month at the Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco, where I participated in a fireside chat session about agentic engineering hosted by Eric Lui from Statsig. The video is available on YouTube . Here are my highlights from the conversation. Stages of AI adoption We started by talking about the different phases a software developer goes through in adopting AI coding tools. 02:45 I feel like there are different stages of AI adoption as a programmer. You start off with you've got C

Meta reportedly considering layoffs that could affect 20% of the company

These layoffs could help Facebook's parent company offset its aggressive spending on AI infrastructure, as well as AI-related acquisitions and hiring.

How to use the new ChatGPT app integrations, including DoorDash, Spotify, Uber, and others

Learn how to use Spotify, Canva, Figma, Expedia, and other apps directly in ChatGPT.

[AINews] Context Drought

a quiet day lets us reflect on Anthropic's belated GA of 1M context windows after Gemini and OpenAI.

‘Not built right the first time’ — Musk’s xAI is starting over again, again

The AI lab is revamping its effort to build an AI coding tool, with two new executives joining from Cursor.

Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases warns of mass casualty risks

AI chatbots have been linked to suicides for years. Now one lawyer says they are showing up in mass casualty cases too, and the technology is moving faster than the safeguards.

Nyne, founded by a father-son duo, gives AI agents the human context they’re missing

The data infrastructure startup raised $5.3 million in seed funding led by Wischoff Ventures and South Park Commons.

Beyond Semantic Similarity: Introducing NVIDIA NeMo Retriever’s Generalizable Agentic Retrieval Pipeline

Steven Spielberg says he’s ‘never used AI’ in any of his films

At SXSW, Steven Spielberg said AI has uses in many fields, but not when it comes to replacing creative people in film and TV writing.

The biggest AI stories of the year (so far)

The AI industry is constantly churning out news, like major acquisitions, indie developer successes, public outcry, and existentially dangerous contract negotiations.