The state of the tech industry in 2026 - LDX3 New York
A look into what has changed, what’s still the same – and what’s broken – in the tech industry, with a focus on AI labs, startups and Big Tech. The keynote presentation on 15 September 2026, at LDX3, in New York.
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• How building software is changing at Anthropic, in 2026 https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/inside-anthropic
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• The Pulse: tech companies move to open AI models
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:53 What changed
12:29 What's not changed
16:14 What broke
22:53 What’s next
Related The Pragmatic Engineer deepdives:
• Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/openai-software-factory
• How building software is changing at Anthropic, in 2026 https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/inside-anthropic
• When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering? https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/when-ai-writes-almost-all-code-what
• The Pulse: tech companies move to open AI models
• The Pulse: a new trend of CPU shortages https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pulse-a-new-trend-of-cpu-shortages/
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:53 What changed
12:29 What's not changed
16:14 What broke
22:53 What’s next