Featured articles from: Yanli Liu, and Jafar Sabbah & Oguz Acar.
Additional reading from: Ana Bildea, Nicolas Figay, Matt “TK” Taylor & Matt Kane, and Stanford University.
News from: CockroachDB, Aprimo, SAP, MongoDB. Also: All the news from Google I/O
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Opinion / Analysis
Anthropic’s engineer said kill Markdown. Here’s what he actually meant.
HTML vs Markdown: Here’s the decision tree both sides needed.
Whether you followed all the back-and-forth last week about this topic, or not, Yanli Liu’s detailed and balanced piece, including relative costs analysis and decision tree suggestions make this a worthy a read. (10 min)
Research: Traditional marketing doesn’t work on AI shopping agents
This should not be the least bit surprising, but what to do about it turns out to be complex, and unfortunately, a lot of work. Jafar Sabbah & Oguz Acar’s research is a must read for marketers. (7 min)
https://hbr.org/2026/05/research-traditional-marketing-doesnt-work-on-ai-shopping-agents
More Reading
- How to use lat. md: Turn any folder into a validated knowledge graph via Agentic Builders
- Everyone has an ontology now. Almost nobody has an ontology. via Nicolas Figay
- Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security via Cloudflare blog
- The Stanford Emerging Technology Review 2026 — A report on ten key technologies and their policy implications via Stanford Univeristy
Content Technology News
CockroachDB brings distributed SQL to IBM Power and IBM Cloud
Organizations can modernize incrementally, while establishing a flexible, distributed data foundation aligned to hybrid and multicloud strategies.
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/partners/ibm/
Aprimo unveils Interconnected Content Operations
Interconnected Content Operations help enterprise teams automate content workflows, improve asset discovery, streamline reviews, & connect digital assets.
https://www.aprimo.com/blog/interconnected-content-operations-in-action
SAP announces Autonomous Enterprise
The unified SAP Business AI Platform, deepens partnerships with Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Palantir.
https://news.sap.com/2026/05/sap-sapphire-sap-unveils-autonomous-enterprise/
MongoDB releases MongoDB 8.3
The unified Data Platform delivers full text and vector search, native embeddings generation, persistent agent memory, and real-time operational data.
https://investors.mongodb.com/news-releases/news-release-details/mongodb-makes-enterprise-ai-production-ready
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