Artificial Intelligence
Aug 6, 2026
Why AWS Built Dogwood, an Open-Source Policy Language That Limits What AI Agents Can Do Over Time
You’ve tasked your AI agent to process vendor payments on your behalf. An invoice arrives one day, and the agent autonomously handles the transaction. It runs like clockwork—until the morning you find your bank account overdrawn. Digging in, you discover payments to vendors who never submitted an invoice and, in a few cases, never delivered […]
Apps
Aug 6, 2026
Adobe Widens Its ChatGPT Presence With Plugin Built for Creative Workflows
When Adobe began abandoning shrink-wrapped software for the cloud in 2011, it dragged the entire industry toward subscriptions. Now the company is attempting its next migration, this time into territory it doesn’t control: chatbots. On Thursday, Adobe launched a plugin for ChatGPT that brings more than 70 of its tools natively into an assistant used […]
Business
Jul 27, 2026
Washington’s Tech Ecosystem Still Traces Back to Microsoft and UW: WTIA
In 2015, the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) published a sprawling infographic that traced more than 600 homegrown companies back to the people who started them. The “Seattle Tech Universe” was cartography with a thesis: the region builds more than Amazon, Microsoft, Expedia, and Boeing. Eleven years later, the WTIA is redrawing it. At this […]