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The Award, the Wrapper, and the Work Underneath
A company won a prize this week for being the best at something most people couldn’t define if you stopped them on the street. SoundHound was named the top “agentic AI” company of the year, a category that barely existed eighteen months ago, handed a superlative as if the territory were already surveyed and settled.…
The Substrate Always Wins
Broadcom announced something today called Tanzu Platform Agent Foundations. The name reads like an apology, three nouns stacked to soften the ambition, but the bet underneath it is direct. AI agents, the company is saying, will not live in the cloud as floating intelligence. They will run on something, and that something will look a…