The AI Engineer World’s Fair opens its Wave 2 speaker submission call, expands its program with six new topic tracks, and expects to host the year’s largest technical AI conference in San Francisco.
OpenAI and Anthropic are positioning their agent platforms as specialized productivity tools beyond programming: Codex for knowledge work, Claude with integration focus on creative tools.
The industry recognizes CPU-based inference compute as a critical resource, with both GPU and CPU capacity becoming increasingly vital for productive AI operations.
Inference compute power is recognized by AI executives as an undervalued strategic resource, signaling a shift from GPU-focused to CPU-focused infrastructure planning.
With Physical AI, model intelligence is not the main bottleneck; rather, it is safe, reliable deployment on hardware under latency, energy, and cost constraints.
Claude Cowork and Code now support any LLMs such as GPT-5, Gemini, local models, or enterprise gateways, without Anthropic making a formal announcement.
