Richard MacManus
This week I published 5 Trends That Defined AI Engineering at World’s Fair 2026 on Latent Space. As previously noted, I attended the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco earlier this month — where I learned that the state of the art in AI engineering looks a lot like the state of the art in...
Richard MacManus
Last week I was in San Francisco covering the AI Engineer World's Fair for Latent Space, the blog of AIEWF co-founder swyx. It was a thrill being on the ground in SF again, and for me it evoked memories of the glory days of Web 2.0. The excitement around AI technology, the speed at which it is...
Richard MacManus
This week’s market signals provide further evidence of the agentic web stack evolving into enterprise infrastructure. From Vercel to AWS to Okta to Google, the industry's focus is shifting toward the infrastructure needed to build, connect, govern and discover agents inside real enterprise...
Richard MacManus
One of the characteristics of the agentic web is an increasing ability for AI agents to execute actions on the web on our behalf. This is a key part of the shift from a web of pages to a web of capabilities — but it also introduces significant security, governance and financial risks.This week’s...
Richard MacManus
This year I've been writing about how we're moving from a web of pages to a web of capabilities. To me, that's never meant that the human web we all know and love is going away. Clearly I don't think that, otherwise I wouldn't have started a new tech blog. Rather, the point I've been trying to...
Richard MacManus
In this week's market signals briefing, I focus on how the economic aspects of the agentic web are shaking out. This was always a key part of my analysis of Web 2.0 during my ReadWriteWeb days: how can these new web technologies be harnessed for commercial purposes? In the AI era, it's even more...
Richard MacManus
The past week in the emerging agentic web was dominated by Google's annual developer conference, I/O, which was all about this trend. As one Google executive said during the keynotes, "we've entered a new agentic era across Google."Unfortunately, Google didn't address economic incentives for...
Richard MacManus
This publication is a relaunch and a narrowing of focus. I began this site last August as Web Technology News, covering the broader web tech landscape — including the growing intersection of AI and the web. But over the past several months, I’ve found myself drawn to one theme above all others: AI...