This week we feature articles from Nicole Königstein, and Scott Brinker.
Additional reading comes from JA Westenberg, Grace Huckins, Rahul Gaur, and Aruna Ranganathan & Xingqi Maggie Ye.
News comes from Elastic, Snowflake, Upland, and DeepL.
Our next issue will be published on 2/25/26
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Opinion / Analysis
Designing effective multi-agent architectures
From models to systems
“… the winners in the agentic era won’t be those with the smartest instructions but the ones who build the most resilient collaboration structures. Agentic performance is an architectural outcome, not a prompting problem.”
Excellent advice from Nicole Königstein on how to get there. (8 min)
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/designing-effective-multi-agent-architectures
The SaaS moats are crumbling, but the opportunity is bigger
Context-as-a-Service (CaaS) and the future of domain-specific software platforms
An important read from Scott Brinker for all, not just marketers :). (8 min)
https://newsletter.chiefmartec.com/p/the-saas-moats-are-crumbling-but-the-opportunity-is-bigger
More Reading
- The pitch deck is dead. Write a pitch.md instead. via Westenberg
- This is the most misunderstood graph in AI via MIT Technology Review
- Stop using Perplexity like ChatGPT: The hunter vs architect rule via Write A Catalyst
- AI doesn’t reduce work—it intensifies it via HBR
Content Technology News
Snowflake makes enterprise data AI-ready with Snowflake Postgres
The database now runs natively in the AI Data Cloud so enterprises can consolidate their transactional, analytical, and AI use cases onto a single, secure platform.
https://www.snowflake.com/en/news/press-releases/snowflake-makes-enterprise-data-ai-ready-with-snowflake-postgres-and-advanced-innovations-for-open-data-interoperability/
Elastic adds high-precision multilingual reranking to Elastic Inference Service
Two Jina reranker models and new Elastic Inference Service deliver low-latency, production-ready relevance for hybrid search and RAG workloads.
https://ir.elastic.co/news/news-details/2026/Elastic-Adds-High-Precision-Multilingual-Reranking-to-Elastic-Inference-Service-with-Jina-Models/default.aspx
Upland announces BA Insight Platform with integrated AI search experiences for enterprises
The new capabilities and enhancements are designed to make search experiences smarter, faster, and more insightful across complex enterprises.
https://investor.uplandsoftware.com/news/news-details/2026/New-Upland-BA-Insight-Platform-Delivers-Integrated-AI-Search-Experiences-for-Enterprises/default.aspx
DeepL launches voice API for real-time speech transcription and translation for instant multilingual communication
Developers can integrate real-time voice transcription and translation capabilities into their applications, significantly enhancing multilingual support for businesses.
https://www.deepl.com/en/press-release/deepl_launches_voice_api_for_real_time_speech_transcription_and_translation
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