No slides. No sales pitches. Just good food, a cold drink, and people learning AI together. All Things AI (@allthingsailive) is leaving the conference room and heading to Boxyard RTP, the shipping-container village in the heart of Research Triangle Park. 📅 Thu, Oct 29 | 6:30 PM EDT 📍 Boxyard RTP, 900 Park Offices Dr, Durham, NC Never opened ChatGPT? Ship agents for a living? You belong here. 👉 RSVP: cstu.io/764d53 #AllThingsAI #RTP #TriangleTech #Networking #NorthCarolina #TechEvents

Catch me at @AllThingsOpen next week. See you all there. Grab your tickets here: eventbrite.com/e/19903172434…

AI can write the code. But can you design the system? Join us on October 20 at 12 PM EST for our Lunch & Learn with Byron Mackay, Director of Learning at Gauntlet AI, on why system design matters more than ever in the age of AI. AI can generate functions, build features, and speed up development. But what happens when your system needs to scale, handle failures, or adapt to changing requirements? That’s where architectural judgment comes in. In this session, we’ll explore: ✅ Why system design is becoming an even more valuable engineering skill ✅ How to think through load, scale, failure, and long-term change ✅ How to build stronger design instincts with Claude as a tutor Byron brings 16+ years of engineering experience and now trains hundreds of engineers to work AI-first. If you’re a software engineer looking to move beyond writing code and toward making better technical decisions, this session is for you. 📅 October 20 at 12 PM EST 👉 Save your spot today: cstu.io/da4ee0

When you consult, you know it won’t last forever. So I picture how it ends. My clients ringing the NASDAQ bell. Or maybe an acquisition. It's not my company, so the best I can hope for is that one day we all look back and agree I had some small part in their success. Today I got my wish. I’ve known @Roebot for more than 20 years. Today he announced that @opaquesys next leg of the journey is with Anthropic. Aaron and Opaque’s founders took one of AI's most important privacy techniques, confidential computing, and made it work. You can run AI on your most sensitive data without exposing that data to anyone, including the people who run the infrastructure. Don’t take my word for it: “Confidential Computing is super important.” – Jensen Huang, NVIDIA GTC 2026 That’s what it takes for enterprises to trust AI with the data that matters. Now @AnthropicAI helps carry that work forward. Aaron, thank you for letting me tailgate on your road trip. I’m proud of you, and grateful I got to ride along for some of it. And to @mosiddi , it’s been a lot of fun working with you, and I learned a lot from you. I wish you both the best in the next chapter. I can’t wait to see what you do next. P.S. If you’re building something with AI and could use some help, I can’t guarantee a bell at the NASDAQ. But I’d love to help you out. Send me a DM

🚨 Join us Monday, October 12, at 5 PM ET / 2 PM PT! Explore how we can verify what happens when AI runs on a machine we don’t control. When an AI request runs on someone else’s machine, how do you know what actually happened? This Monday, we’re bringing together three people working on different pieces of the AI trust puzzle to explore how evidence can make distributed AI systems more verifiable. 🎙️ Meet the speakers: 🔹 Michael Neale, founder and creator of Mesh-LLM, an open-source framework for connecting and orchestrating AI models and agents. 🔹 Steven Mih, founder of Action State, building infrastructure and tools to make AI agents more reliable, observable, and accountable. 🔹 Imran Siddique, founder of agentrust-io and contributor to TRACE, an open specification for portable, verifiable records of AI agent runs. Here’s what we’ll explore: 🔹How Mesh-LLM records and shares signed, hash-chained evidence 🔹What two-sided confirmation looks like in a demo 🔹How TRACE records can complement exchange evidence 🔹What runtime and hardware evidence can establish — and what it cannot This is a practical look at an important question for the future of AI: How do we move from trusting what an agent tells us to checking the evidence ourselves? 📅 Monday, October 12 at 5 PM ET / 2 PM PT Join us for the discussion! 🎟️ Register now and save your seat: cstu.io/524587

Would you trust an AI request handled by a machine you’ve never seen before? That’s one of the harder questions we’ll tackle next week! 🚨 Join us Monday, October 12 at 5 PM ET / 2 PM PT for Mesh-LLM & Trusting a Stranger’s Machine, Part 2: Evidence You Can Check. When an AI request runs on someone else’s machine, simply being told “it worked” isn’t enough. So what if you could actually check the evidence? 🔗 Mesh-LLM’s Evidence plugin records signed, hash-chained evidence on each node and sends the signed records to both sides of the exchange. We’ll walk through a demo showing: → Two-sided confirmation → A paid Lightning exchange → How the exchange can be represented alongside a TRACE record → What additional runtime and hardware evidence can tell us → And, importantly, where the limits of this approach are Joining us are: Michael Neale — Mesh-LLM Steven Mih — Action State Imran Siddique — agentrust-io / TRACE If AI agents are going to work across machines we don’t control, evidence matters. Register today: cstu.io/1fa78a

⏰ Less than 3 weeks until All Things Open 2026! If it's been sitting on your “maybe” list, now is the time to make a plan — especially because limited free passes are available for eligible community members. October 19–20 in Raleigh brings together: 🤖 AI & agentic technology 💻 Open source ☁️ Cloud & infrastructure ⚙️ DevOps 🔐 Security 📊 Data 🧑‍💻 Developer tools 🤝 Community Plus 100+ speakers, 100+ sessions, workshops, Deep Dives, co-located events, networking, and plenty of opportunities to connect with people working across the ecosystem. 🎟️ Free Tuesday passes are available for the All Things AI community, and RTP DevOps members have limited free pass options for Monday and Tuesday. Passes are limited, so claim yours if you can attend. 📍 Raleigh Convention Center 📅 October 19–20, 2026 👉 Register here and check the available free-pass options: cstu.io/9593a6

Nearly half of enterprises are over their AI budget. Only 17% slow down. Uber ran out by April and capped spend at $1,500 a head. Cloud had this problem once, and it invented FinOps to fix it. AI needs the same thing before 2027 budgets lock. theaienterprise.io/p/nobody-…

🚀 Mark your calendars as All Things Open 2026 is coming to Raleigh on October 19–20! Thousands of technologists, developers, builders, decision-makers, and open source community members will come together at the Raleigh Convention Center for two days focused on what’s happening across open source, AI, cloud, DevOps, security, infrastructure, and more. And this year’s lineup is stacked. 🎤 100+ speakers 💻 100+ sessions 🤖 AI, agents & emerging technology ☁️ Cloud & infrastructure 🔐 Security ⚙️ DevOps & developer tooling 🌎 Open source communities & projects You’ll hear from people working across companies and organizations including Google, Microsoft, AWS, NVIDIA, IBM, Red Hat, Salesforce, Oracle, Cisco, GitHub, Databricks, Qualcomm, Akamai, NVIDIA, Fidelity, Dell Technologies, GitLab, and more. 📍 Raleigh Convention Center 📅 October 19–20, 2026 If open technology is part of your world, this is one to have on your calendar. 👉 Register and see the full lineup: cstu.io/cdb8b5

🚨 HAPPENING LATER TODAY AT 12PM EST! Your AI agent did something important. Now someone asks: “Prove it.” What do you show them? That’s the question we’re tackling today in “Prove What Your Agent Did: Two Companies, One Receipt, Verified on Your Machine.” Instead of simply showing logs, we’ll look at how agent evidence can be independently checked. 🔐 See the TRACE Registry in action 💻 Watch a receipt get verified live on a machine 🔎 See what the evidence proves — and what it deliberately does not 🤝 Explore how two companies can verify evidence without simply relying on each other’s systems And we’ve got a great group leading the conversation: 🎤 Imran Siddique — Chief Product Officer, OPAQUE Systems 🎤 Steven Mih — Founder & CEO, Action State Group 🎤 Nick DiZazzo — Software Engineer, Tetrate 🎤 Mark Hinkle — CEO, Peripety Labs & Co-Founder of All Things AI If you work with AI agents, security, infrastructure, or governance, this is a chance to see the verification happen for yourself, not just hear about it. 👉 Register now and join us live! cstu.io/3f4051

🚨 1 DAY TO GO — and this is one you’ll want to see live! We talk a lot about AI agents, but there’s a harder question that comes after deployment: How do you prove what an agent actually did to someone who doesn’t have to trust you? “Here are our logs” may not be enough when the other side has no reason to accept those logs as proof. That’s what tomorrow’s webinar is about. 🔐 The TRACE Registry creates a public, append-only record of agent evidence with signed checkpoints and an offline verifier. 🤝 Action State’s public witness lets a log send a checkpoint and receive a receipt that can be independently verified — without calling either company. 💻 And tomorrow, we’re not just explaining the idea. We’re going to verify it live! You’ll see the receipt verified from published bytes using a public key and open-source code, with no network calls. We’ll also show the two fields the receipt deliberately leaves false. And you’ll hear directly from the people building and working on this: 🎤 Imran Siddique - Chief Product Officer, OPAQUE Systems 🎤 Steven Mih - Founder & CEO, Action State Group 🎤 And me, Mark Hinkle - CEO, Peripety Labs & Co-Founder, All Things AI If you care about AI agents, governance, trust, or being able to prove what happened after an agent takes action, this is a conversation worth joining. 📅 Tomorrow — September 22 at 12pm EST 👉 Register now and join us live. Bring your questions. Sign up here: cstu.io/07335a

AI agents are becoming more autonomous. But how do you prove what they actually did? That’s the question behind next week’s webinar with me, Imran Siddique, and Steven Mih. The TRACE Registry creates a public record of agent evidence, while Action State lets you turn a log into a checkpoint and independently verify the resulting receipt. The goal isn’t another dashboard telling you everything worked — it’s creating evidence that someone outside your organization can check for themselves. On September 22 at 12 PM ET, we’ll run that verification live and show exactly what the receipt proves — and what it deliberately does not prove. Join us and register here: event.webinarjam.com/462og/r…

Today, we remember September 11 and the lives lost, the families affected, and the people who responded that day. More than 20 years later, technology has changed dramatically, with AI now playing a growing role in emergency response, public safety, and how we process information. It’s a good reminder of how far technology has come — while some moments in history should never be forgotten. 🕊️

Ex-Anthropic researcher, Jacob Coxon, told Anderson Cooper the labs secretly agree AI could kill us all by 2030. His exact words: "We do not yet have a plan." Whistleblower or brand-building? Watch the interview and tell me what you think.

🚨 HAPPENING TOMORROW: Get Unstuck at echo Durham What if the software problem you’ve been working around could actually be fixed — without hiring a developer, buying another subscription, or learning how to code? Tomorrow, September 11 at 9:00 AM, I'm hosting "Get Unstuck" at echo in Durham. Bring one real business problem — a website, client intake form, pricing calculator, spreadsheet, tracker, or automation — and spend three hands-on hours working toward a solution you actually own. No coding required. No ongoing subscription. Just bring your laptop and the problem you’re tired of working around. Only 15 spots available. Register today → cstu.io/8a6f8f