This week we feature articles from Sharang Sharma, and Justine & Olivia Moore, Marc Andrusko & Seema Amble.
Additional reading comes from Dharmesh Shah, Heiko Hotz, Bob DuCharme, and Sainath Palla.
News comes from TileDB, Grafana Labs, commercetools, and Google.
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Opinion / Analysis
How can AI UI capture intent?
Exploring contextual prompt patterns that capture user intent as it is typed
“AI interfaces become truly intelligent when they anticipate rather than react. Instead of waiting for users to articulate perfect prompts, contextual UI patterns can surface intent naturally whether through adaptive presets for file uploads, dynamic refinement chips for search, or inline tone controls for content creation. Users spend less time explaining what they want and more time refining the results that matter.”
Sharang Sharma shares some appealing examples of what such UI’s could look like. (5 min)
https://uxdesign.cc/how-can-ai-ui-capture-intent-d7a6d0393ded
The AI Application Spending Report
Where startup dollars really go
Enterprise AI application spending is growing rapidly and is where future growth and open-ended opportunity is headed as AI infrastructure capex and foundation model development begin to plateau.
a16z’s Justine & Olivia Moore, Marc Andrusko, and Seema Amble found some patterns early enterprise AI applications, and identified 50 AI-native application layer companies already in the market. (9 min)
https://a16zenterprise.substack.com/p/the-ai-application-spending-report
More Reading
- ChatGPT just became an operating system. What OpenAI’s DevDay means for developers, agents, and the future of AI via simple.ai
- The Architect’s Dilemma: Choosing between tools and agents with MCP and A2A via O’Reilly Radar
- Let’s stop saying ‘semantic web‘ via Bob DuCharme
- Every industry faces the same data problems. A take on Palantir’s solution at AIPCON 8 via Data Engineer Things
Content technology news
Google announces Gemini Enterprise
The new front door for Google AI in your workplace, Gemini Enterprise is an AI-powered conversational platform designed to bring Google AI to every employee for every workflow.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/introducing-gemini-enterprise
commercetools previews Cora
The AI-native shopping companion for conversational commerce shows how enterprises will be able to deliver human-like continuity across every channel.
https://commercetools.com/press-releases/commercetools-previews-cora
TileDB launches Carrara, an omnimodal data intelligence platform
Carrara can discover, access, and analyze all data types, from structured tables to non-tabular data such as genomics, imaging, documents, models, and agents.
https://www.tiledb.com/blog/introducing-carrara
Grafana Labs releases Grafana Assistant
New AI-powered capabilities accelerate root cause analysis, reduce alert fatigue, and make observability accessible to users at all skill levels.
https://grafana.com/about/press/2025/10/08/grafana-labs-revolutionizes-ai-powered-observability-with-ga-of-grafana-assistant-and-introduces-assistant-investigations/
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