Oct 16, 2026

High Taste Testers: OpenAI Shipped Everything. What Actually Works?

A roundtable of AI power users reviews OpenAI DevDay and asks what actually works in daily use. Topics include personal assistants and their trust, permission, and safety trade-offs; durable agent state and remote execution; the Jev decision model and calibrated classification; model preferences across Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Meta, and open models; subagents and context management; and the gap between impressive capabilities and products that hold up.

Oct 02, 2026

OpenAI cancels Astra release, Sonnet 5.5 & what Meta Muse means for work

IBM's Mixture of Experts panel examines OpenAI's decision to withhold GPT-6.1 Astra, Anthropic's Sonnet 5.5 blurring the line between mid-tier and top-tier models, and Meta's Muse agent as a bridge between consumer AI habits and enterprise expectations, with a detour into token budgets, model routing, and AI governance.