Claude Code turned every engineer into three. Now companies need more product thinkers

AI compressed the build. Fundamentals matter more, not less, and the product funnel is now where engineers earn their keep.

Ishan Gupta

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New agentic memory framework uses 118K tokens per query. LangMem burns through 3.26M.

NUS researchers' MRAgent framework reduces LLM agent memory retrieval to 118K tokens per query — vs. 3.26M for LangMem — using step-by-step reasoning.

Thubrikar Aortic Valve partners with MAC’s MEDICAL Group and expands the TAVI-1 CE Mark trial of the Optimum TAVI System™

The Optimum TAVI system has been named “Top Aortic Valve Implantation System 2026” by the publication MED TECH Outlook. A detailed interview of Dr. Thubrikar, author of the 1991 textbook “The Aortic ...

Autonomous security agents need complete data. Here's how to check if yours is ready.

Before you let autonomous SOC agents close tickets or quarantine assets, this checklist tells you whether your EDR and asset data is solid enough to trust. It is vendor-agnostic, works with any EDR ...

Unseen Reality Debuts URXR One, Bringing Full Spatial Computing to 93-Gram Glasses

Debuting at AWE 2026, the company’s first product combines a wide 90-degree field of view, high-resolution Micro-OLED ...

OpenAI unveils GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna models — but only accessible to limited preview partners for now, per US Gov

Sol and Terra set new high benchmark scores, while Luna performs near GPT-5.5 levels on several tests despite being ...

Benjamin Rogojan

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Most companies think they're building a software factory. They're actually just shipping bugs faster.

AI has made it easy to ship code faster — but incidents-to-PR ratio is up 242.7% and bugs per developer up 54%. Here's what a real software factory actually requires.

Liquid AI's smallest model yet LFM2.5-230M beats models 4X its size at data extraction, can run 'anywhere'

LFM2.5-230M proves that while 3-billion-parameter models like VibeThinker are solving advanced calculus, a ...

Manan Mehta, Unshackled Ventures

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OpenAI's updated GPT-5.5 Instant is better at shopping, complex constraints, and understanding user intent — and it's already in the API

OpenAI is moving away from models that require heavy hand-holding and toward systems that can better infer the user’s goal, ...