A weekly newsletter on AI and the tech industry — the news that matters, with an honest take on each story.https://www.techbyjohan.com/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-29/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-29/OpenAI released the GPT-5.6 family with four-agent Ultra, launched ChatGPT Work, and faces lawsuits from Apple over trade secrets and New York Times…Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-28/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-28/Here in Sweden many companies are slowing down for the summer, but the global AI industry keeps on innovating. Last week was one of the busiest in a long…Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-27/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-27/Last week I released an update to my plugin Notebook Navigator for Obsidian, improving startup times up to 10 times for some users. Notebook Navigator is…Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-26/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-26/For a long time, paying for enterprise software was simple. You bought a seat license, and a human sat in that seat and used the software. Last week that…Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-25/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-25/On June 10, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published the article "Policy on the AI Exponential", arguing that frontier AI governance must move beyond just…Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-24/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-24/Last week OpenAI finally released their models on Amazon Bedrock, through both the API and the updated Codex app. This removes one of the biggest barriers…Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-23/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-23/Last week Cursor published the report Developer Habits, which aggregates data from their entire user base. The reports highlight two important matters that…Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-22/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-22/AI is getting smart in ways few people expected.Mon, 25 May 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-21/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-21/Two weeks ago there were over 2,000 plugins waiting in queue to be manually reviewed for the popular markdown editor Obsidian. The introduction of coding…Mon, 18 May 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-20/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-20/The past few months I have held full-day workshops in agentic engineering for hundreds of developers. And what strikes me every time is how little most…Mon, 11 May 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-19/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-19/GPT-5.5 is different. GPT-5.5 is the first model trained at OpenAI's flagship Stargate site in Abilene, Texas, one of the supercomputing facilities funded…Mon, 04 May 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-18/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-18/Be prepared to forget everything you have learnt about how to maximize AI productivity by maximizing token usage. In the new token economy less is more, and…Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-17/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-17/Two years ago in the summer of 2024 OpenAI launched their first ChatGPT desktop app for macOS. Back then we didn't have agentic engineering, so the entire…Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-16/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-16/Last week I visited HumanX in San Fransisco, one of the largest AI conferences in 2026 with over 9,000 attendees, 500+ speakers and 400+ journalists. The…Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-15/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-15/This is what I wrote in Tech Insights 2025 week 28 (July): "In 9-12 months I predict the models will be able to run autonomously for several hours, probably…Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-14/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-14/Last week Google launched what most LinkedIn experts and AI newsletters summarized as one of the biggest technical leaps in years. The Rundown AI wrote:…Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-13/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-13/After nearly five years of development and over $80 billion of investments, Meta is closing down the Metaverse on June 15. Metaverse was a constant race for…Mon, 23 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-12/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-12/Things are moving fast now. Two months ago Anthropic launched a new feature called "Cowork", where Claude works autonomously within a sandbox environment on…Mon, 16 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-11/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-11/Last year in Tech Insights 2025 Week 30 I wrote: "In my last two seminars I got the question what main trend I see for AI in 2026, and to me it's easy:…Mon, 09 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMThttps://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-10/https://www.techbyjohan.com/tech-insights-2026-week-10/The main AI news of last week were the public announcements from Anthropic, OpenAI and the Department of War, where most people on social media seemed to…Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT