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The & Report #10
The & Report #10 Welcome to March! Two months in — and the pace hasn't let up! Here's the tech news from the week, Sat., Feb. 28th through Fri., Mar. 6th. But first, I spent some time with Claude this week discussing the direction I might take with The & Report. After an engaging 90-minute session on Wednesday night, we came up with a new tag line for the reports - "The future belongs to people who put AI to work, know themselves, and lead their teams with humility an

Pat O'Connell
Mar 96 min read


The & Report #9
Welcome to the latest AI and Robotics news from the week, Sat., Feb. 21st through Fri., Feb 27th. There is lot to report on this week. In this, the 9th edition of The & Report, you can see the level of activity pick-up steam as we push towards The Singularity. Progress with Autonomous Agents, in the Frontier Models (Claude, ChatGPT. Gemini, etc.) as well as, the personal agents (Clawbots and more), are starting to have a greater impact in the world of knowledge workers.

Pat O'Connell
Mar 29 min read


The & Report #8
Welcome to the latest AI and Robotics news from the week, Sat., Feb. 14th through Fri., Feb 20th. Another busy week with the release of a Blueprint for the Intelligence Revolution, Clawbots ("Molties") expanding their reach, Labor Markets not looking so good, and The Race to ASI. Let's start with a the Intelligence Revolution! 1. Solve Everything. Moonshots' Peter Diamandis and Alex Wissner-Gross released their blueprint for how to aim the Singularity at every problem

Pat O'Connell
Feb 236 min read


The & Report &7
Welcome to the latest AI and Robotics news from the week, Sat., Feb. 7th through Fri., Feb 13th. The pace of technology progress continues, with no sign of a slowing down. I heard some positive news in US - China relations, not at government level, but within the tech community. I have a new focus on robotics, and Anthropic had another good week. And, as announced last week, Clawbots, also known as "Molties", have advanced in unexpected ways. Let's start with a Moltbots

Pat O'Connell
Feb 1610 min read


The & Report #6
What a week! Moltbots, Moltbook, and HireAHuman.ai appeared, and are spooking many AI watchers. These are an open-source Agent, a reddit-like site, and a website, create by home-based tech hobbyists, not by the Hyper-scalers - OpenAI, Goggle, xAI, etc Some would say that the Singularity has arrived - as these AI Agents self-organize and are starting to hire humans! Already the ClawBots , another name for Moltbots, have created their own Constitution and a CEO! Just

Pat O'Connell
Feb 166 min read


The & Report #5
We made it! .. to the end of January 2026 without the collapse of the labor market due to AI and Robotics! Just kidding! I've noticed a slight change in the "Acceleration-ists", and most optimist futurists, where their expectations of when full AGI and Humanoid robots take over has shifted out. Elon (Tesla) is frustrated with the supply chain issues in Robotics, and his plan for 1M Optimus robots this year has changed to be, in production by the end of the year, with a target

Pat O'Connell
Feb 26 min read


The & Report #4
The & Report #4 Prompt Engineering Accelerator available now for free during January This week was a busy week in the world of AI, Robotics, Politics and Economics. The focus of these weekly updates is to look at AI and Robotics primarily, and how they pertain to the nature of work, today and over the next few years. My process - The sources of this news comes primarily from these places: ChatGPT - https://chatgpt.com/ based on a prompt. Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross -

Pat O'Connell
Jan 248 min read


The & Report #3
In this issue of The & Report, I'd like to cover some on the major news in tech during the week Jan. 10th - Jan. 16th, 2026, and thoughts on what it might mean for you. The End of Programming, or Programmers? Claude leads in coding. Claude Code is getting better at Agentic AI and Orchestration. Claude Code is an agentic coding assistant that automatically pulls context into prompts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RpGVqgqLaE https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/

Pat O'Connell
Jan 173 min read


The & Report #2
I hope your first full week of 2026 was a good one. Rested up after the holidays and getting ready for an exciting, if turbulent year with technology, the economy, and the global order. In this, the 2nd weekly issue of The & Report, I'd like to cover some on the major news in tech, and thoughts on what it might mean for you. (No AI was used in the production of this report, and all the typos and grammatical errors are mine.) Let's get started. 1. CES & The latest job's

Pat O'Connell
Jan 107 min read


The & Report #1
Prompt Engineering Accelerator available in January Happy New Year! I hope you enjoyed the holidays and the close out of 2025. Welcome to The And Report! Why And? How often do you find yourself in a conversation where people are stuck between one or more opinions? It's either 'this only', or 'this or that'! Well, sometimes it can be 'this and that'. " Or" is restrictive and limiting, while "and" opens up insights and understanding. I intent to focus primarily on br

Pat O'Connell
Jan 34 min read
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