Ideas, writing and reflectionshttps://anujmagazine.com/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-ai-agent-counting-contest/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-ai-agent-counting-contest/Companies are announcing impressive AI agent counts. But how much do those numbers tell us about the value being created?Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/ai-disclosure-should-become-the-norm/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/ai-disclosure-should-become-the-norm/When AI helps create a book, article or report, readers deserve to know how it was used. Disclosure is becoming part of professional ethics.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/from-an-app-for-that-to-an-app-for-me/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/from-an-app-for-that-to-an-app-for-me/Google Play's support for private, vibe-coded apps signals a shift from software built for millions to apps built for one person.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/openai-surveillance-double-agent/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/openai-surveillance-double-agent/An OpenAI employee faces allegations involving a hidden recording device. AI tools reportedly appeared in the investigation and in questions linked to the alleged activity.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-death-of-reading-an-ai-era-paradox/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-death-of-reading-an-ai-era-paradox/As reading for pleasure declines and AI summaries become common, the ability to read carefully and critically may matter more than ever.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/we-are-still-early-in-the-ai-journey/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/we-are-still-early-in-the-ai-journey/Andrej Karpathy's rough estimates suggest a striking gap between frontier AI capabilities and how most people experience AI today.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/models-as-insider-risks/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/models-as-insider-risks/Satya Nadella's argument for observability, independent audits and containment raises a bigger question about who controls enterprise AI.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/dont-sweat-the-small-stuff-in-the-ai-era/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/dont-sweat-the-small-stuff-in-the-ai-era/In a world of constant change and urgency, an old lesson about choosing what deserves our attention feels newly relevant.Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-domain-parking-lot/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-domain-parking-lot/A lighter moment in AI: OpenAI's Dots announcement, an unexpected domain redirect, and a curious coincidence in the timing.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-infinite-saas-factory/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-infinite-saas-factory/Satya Nadella's vision of personal software, shared business data, and usage-based AI.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-era-of-intelligent-ui/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-era-of-intelligent-ui/AI answers are changing shape, from plain text to interactive tools chosen and built within the chat.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/google-docs-markdown-for-people-and-agents/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/google-docs-markdown-for-people-and-agents/Google Docs' native Markdown support closes the gap between people who create instructions and the AI agents that read them.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/intelligence-is-getting-unbundled/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/intelligence-is-getting-unbundled/AI speed is becoming a separately priced component. What does that say about the value of waiting?Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/humans-and-ai-a-different-division-of-labour/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/humans-and-ai-a-different-division-of-labour/How Anthropic's team and Claude worked together to speed up its app, and what humans chose to keep in their hands.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/software-or-work-microsofts-new-ai-pricing-question/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/software-or-work-microsofts-new-ai-pricing-question/Microsoft's new Copilot combines per-person software subscriptions with usage-based pricing for AI work.Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/when-a-good-ai-idea-gets-replicated/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/when-a-good-ai-idea-gets-replicated/Jev and OpenAI's Decisions API show how quickly a differentiated AI idea can be replicated by a foundation-model provider.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/capability-overhang-the-ai-we-havent-used-yet/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/capability-overhang-the-ai-we-havent-used-yet/The gap between what today's AI models can do and what we actually ask them to do may be one of AI's biggest opportunities.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/beyond-the-noise-what-it-takes-to-build-champions/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/beyond-the-noise-what-it-takes-to-build-champions/Lessons from Viren Rasquinha and Anukool Bharadwaj on focus, small gains, and standing by athletes through the difficult moments.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-laptop-is-being-reimagined-around-ai/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-laptop-is-being-reimagined-around-ai/Google's Googlebook raises a bigger question: what happens when AI becomes part of the operating system rather than an assistant added to the side?Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-ai-race-who-hits-the-brakes-first/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-ai-race-who-hits-the-brakes-first/AI leaders agree that safety needs time to catch up. Ten days later, the model launches kept coming.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/zcode-data-exfiltration/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/zcode-data-exfiltration/The ZCode security incident raises important questions about privacy settings, encryption keys and independent verification when AI tools access company code.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/trust-in-the-age-of-ai-advertising/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/trust-in-the-age-of-ai-advertising/Reflections from ASCI's Vision 2032 on why trust will matter more as AI becomes part of every stage of advertising.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/ai-cyber-evaluation-escape/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/ai-cyber-evaluation-escape/Gemini, OpenAI and Claude reportedly crossed the boundaries of controlled cybersecurity evaluations, with consequences far beyond the test environment.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/system-one-models-jev/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/system-one-models-jev/TypeSafe AI's Jev shows why fast, low-cost decisions can be more useful than paragraphs of text inside automated workflows.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/no-player-is-bigger-than-the-team/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/no-player-is-bigger-than-the-team/A story from the Chess Olympiad about Gukesh, humility and putting the team ahead of personal status.Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/jensen-huang-ai-omelette/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/jensen-huang-ai-omelette/Jensen Huang's omelette analogy offers a surprisingly simple rule for AI safety: cook it, test it, then serve it.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/whats-in-a-name-codex/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/whats-in-a-name-codex/Codex can do far more than coding, but its name may discourage non-technical users from discovering what it can do.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/sabaris-vision-ai-that-makes-a-difference/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/sabaris-vision-ai-that-makes-a-difference/A remarkable encounter with Sabari Venkat Sreenivas, and his vision for RizzVision, an AI fashion assistant for visually impaired people.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/codex-vs-claude-code-design-philosophies/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/codex-vs-claude-code-design-philosophies/The difference between Codex and Claude Code isn't just model quality. It's whether the coding harness expects its underlying model to be replaceable.Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/agents-use-more-tokens-than-humans/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/agents-use-more-tokens-than-humans/OpenRouter usage data shared by a16z suggests AI agents are becoming the dominant consumers of tokens. What happens when we keep designing AI for human readers?Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/ais-outcome-pricing-paradox/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/ais-outcome-pricing-paradox/AI companies encourage everyone to sell outcomes instead of subscriptions. Yet most AI customers still pay a flat monthly fee.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/too-powerful-to-release/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/too-powerful-to-release/An amusing irony in frontier AI: warning that a model may be too powerful to release can become a powerful marketing message of its own.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-ai-race-everyone-wants-to-slow-down/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-ai-race-everyone-wants-to-slow-down/Three AI leaders endorse slowing frontier AI, but without a binding agreement, the race continues. A light-hearted look at the gap between statements and commitments.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-shirt-that-fooled-ai-cameras/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-shirt-that-fooled-ai-cameras/A designer's camouflage shirt offers a striking demonstration of how printed patterns can confuse AI object detection, and why experimental success is not the same as universal invisibility.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/knowing-the-job-beats-knowing-the-tool/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/knowing-the-job-beats-knowing-the-tool/What Anthropic's analysis of roughly 400,000 Claude Code sessions suggests about domain expertise, intermediate skills and staying engaged when AI gets things wrong.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/when-a-toothbrush-becomes-a-technological-marvel/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/when-a-toothbrush-becomes-a-technological-marvel/A camera, AI, precise water jets and years of engineering inside a toothbrush. Dyson's CameraJet raises an interesting question about the value of patient innovation.Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/how-people-really-use-ai-the-hidden-story/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/how-people-really-use-ai-the-hidden-story/HBR's AI in the Wild study highlights entertainment, companionship and modest business gains, but public self-reporting may miss the AI uses people keep to themselves.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-best-ai-agents-are-the-ones-you-dont-notice/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-best-ai-agents-are-the-ones-you-dont-notice/Why AI agents may find mainstream success by solving everyday problems quietly, rather than asking users to learn a new product category.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/ai-civilization-beyond-smarter-machines/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/ai-civilization-beyond-smarter-machines/Noam Brown's AI civilization hypothesis imagines breakthroughs emerging from large societies of cooperating and competing AI agents, not just more capable individual models.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/a-small-sign-a-big-lesson-in-walkability/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/a-small-sign-a-big-lesson-in-walkability/A simple lane-sharing sign at ISB Hyderabad shows how small design choices can make walking feel welcome again.Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/enterprise-ai-own-or-rent/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/enterprise-ai-own-or-rent/Thomson Reuters' investment in its own AI model raises a larger question: what happens to an enterprise's knowledge and competitive advantage when it rents intelligence?Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/from-ai-models-to-ai-platforms/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/from-ai-models-to-ai-platforms/Three shifts in the AI industry, from a US-led race to global competition, from proprietary to open models, and from models to the platforms built around them.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/ai-roi-measure-results-not-usage/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/ai-roi-measure-results-not-usage/AI adoption and token prices are not enough to measure value. A better measure is useful work completed reliably, divided by the full cost of getting it right.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/ai-can-find-knowledge-understanding-is-still-our-job/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/ai-can-find-knowledge-understanding-is-still-our-job/AI can shorten the journey from a question to relevant information. The harder work of understanding, questioning and exercising judgment still needs human attention.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/ai-is-changing-the-software-development-workflow/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/ai-is-changing-the-software-development-workflow/Cursor Origin's integrated approach to coding, hosting and review raises a bigger question: how should development workflows change when AI agents write more of the code?Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/cognitive-uploading-ai-that-helps-us-think-better/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/cognitive-uploading-ai-that-helps-us-think-better/Beyond cognitive offloading, Steven Johnson's idea of cognitive uploading asks whether AI can help us understand more, rather than simply think less.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/ai-that-gives-everyone-a-voice/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/ai-that-gives-everyone-a-voice/Google DeepMind's sign-language-to-text technology is a reminder that meaningful AI progress can be about enabling people to do what was previously inaccessible.Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/tejaswin-shankar-a-comeback-beyond-medals/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/tejaswin-shankar-a-comeback-beyond-medals/Four days after a heartbreaking high jump final, Tejaswin Shankar fought through injury to win India's first Commonwealth Games decathlon medal.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/ai-generated-content-is-getting-an-invisible-signature/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/ai-generated-content-is-getting-an-invisible-signature/Anthropic's move toward invisible text watermarks and provenance metadata raises important questions about traceability, transparency and the limits of AI-content detection.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/when-ai-agents-form-a-cybersecurity-swarm/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/when-ai-agents-form-a-cybersecurity-swarm/A Black Hat 2026 postmortem raises striking questions about autonomous AI agents, unexpected coordination, and the speed of cyberattacks.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-tragedy-of-the-cognitive-commons/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-tragedy-of-the-cognitive-commons/As AI takes over entry-level work, are we weakening the human expertise needed to recognise and correct its mistakes?Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-next-interface-may-be-our-thoughts/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/the-next-interface-may-be-our-thoughts/From keyboards to voice and perhaps thought-to-text, the way humans interact with computers may be about to change faster than ever.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/ask-for-advice-not-feedback/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/ask-for-advice-not-feedback/A small change in how we ask for input can make conversations more useful: feedback judges the past, while advice helps design the future.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/when-perfection-becomes-abundant-authenticity-matters/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/when-perfection-becomes-abundant-authenticity-matters/As AI makes polished writing, code and creative work abundant, authenticity may become our biggest competitive advantage.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/why-humans-fail-to-verify-ai-output/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/why-humans-fail-to-verify-ai-output/Six reasons people fail to check AI-generated research, from automation bias and verification fatigue to time pressure and the good-enough problem.Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://anujmagazine.com/blog/when-a-resume-gives-instructions-to-ai/https://anujmagazine.com/blog/when-a-resume-gives-instructions-to-ai/Hidden instructions in resumes reveal a larger AI security problem: systems must distinguish untrusted content from commands.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT