Notion's Co-Founder, Simon Last, discusses their evolution from a writing assistant to a platform for custom AI agents. He covers the technical hurdles of semantic indexing, the internal shift toward using coding agents to build Notion, and the fundamental transition from a tool where humans do the work to one where humans manage a swarm of agents.
This talk by Philippe De Ryck explains why common OAuth 2.0 patterns in Single Page Applications (SPAs) are fundamentally insecure against Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. He demonstrates how defenses like refresh token rotation can be bypassed and introduces the Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) pattern as the secure, recommended solution.
A deep dive into the [un]prompted AI security conference, the new Zero Day Clock initiative for vulnerability management, the emergent risks of autonomous AI agents, and the pervasive issue of burnout in the cybersecurity field.
A deep dive into building agent-powered engineering workflows with Codex and OpenAI APIs, covering the shift from pair programming to agentic delegation, the principles of 'Harness Engineering' to make agents reliable, and practical examples from OpenAI and Basis.
Anish Acharya and Olivia Moore from a16z discuss the 6th edition of their "Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps" report. They analyze the diverging strategies of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini; explore global adoption trends and cultural attitudes towards AI; and delve into the rise of agents, the importance of memory, and the future of creative tools and voice interfaces.
Max Hodak, co-founder of Neuralink and founder of Science, discusses the company's retinal implant that restores sight, the concept of the brain as a computer with a definable API, the surprising parallels between neural representations and latent spaces in AI, and the future of bio-hybrid interfaces.