AI, Art and New Technology: Threat or Opportunity
A portrait-drawing robot makes the cultural stakes of machine creativity tangible.
The Briefing
Five local signals from the intersection of technology and the liberal arts, five from the agentic frontier - the day's high-signal reading, in one place.
August 25, 2026
Local Signal
Imagining the Future: AI and the Liberal Arts
Liberal-arts inquiry gives AI's technical acceleration a humanistic frame.
From Studio to Study: Artistic Research on AI and Society
New York artists treat technology as something experienced and negotiated, not abstract.
Creative Futures: Art + Tech
San Francisco's creative-technology community pairs making with critique of current deployments.
REFRESH 2026 in San Francisco
Designers, artists, and technologists converge around the future of creative practice.
Agentic Frontier
How AI Agents Are Rebuilding Business in 2026
The shift from assistants to autonomous agents is now examined through real production deployments.
Gartner Predicts 40% of Enterprise Apps Will Feature Task-Specific AI Agents by 2026
The forecast frames agents as a product-design shift, not merely a model upgrade.
Top 15 Agentic AI Trends Shaping the Future in 2026
The frontier is shifting toward autonomous systems for efficiency, personalization, and strategic growth.
The Agentic List 2026 - Top 120 Agentic AI Companies
The category is becoming legible as a field of enterprise-grade autonomous systems.
Agentic AI: The Dawn of Autonomous IT Service
Self-healing and self-securing service delivery show agents moving from assistant to operator.