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Intuit has rebuilt its artificial intelligence agent architecture not once but twice in the span of roughly four months. The company's VP of AI told VentureBeat's Transform conference that the pivots, first to a central orchestration layer and then to a skills and tools based system, were not failures but the fastest road to getting it right. It is a candid admission that even the early movers in agentic AI are still figuring out the blueprint.
On a very different frontier, mark your calendars for two thousand twenty nine. The asteroid Apophis is set to pass so close to Earth that new mapping suggests up to ninety percent of the world's population could spot it with the naked eye. Scientists are calling it a once in a generation shared cosmic moment, and the close approach will give researchers an unprecedented window to study a potentially hazardous object up close.
And for the builders among us, a developer named Erik Evenson has released Spiral, a browser based tool for designing continuous thrust orbit transfers. It is the kind of niche, quietly remarkable project that turns genuinely complex orbital mechanics into something you can explore on a lunch break, no downloads required.
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