RESEARCH & TALKS
FROM THE COMMUNITY_
Research, explainers, interviews and talks from across AI, cybersecurity, blockchain and frontier tech.
The State of Agentic AI 2026: From Demos to Production
How autonomous AI agents moved from weekend demos to real production systems across the HATCon community — and what builders learned about reliability, evaluation and trust along the way.
- Agentic AI
- Production
- Evaluation
- Reliability
Dr. Aria Venn
May 22, 20269 min read

Securing Systems That Think
A live debate on defending AI-native infrastructure.
Kaito Mercer
April 9, 202638 min watch

Post-Quantum, In Practice
What migrating real systems to quantum-safe cryptography actually takes.
Dr. Lucas Fenn
March 3, 202616 min read

Building Hard Tech, The Long Way
A founder on patience, physics and capital in frontier hardware.
Tomas Beck
February 14, 202622 min read

What Is Confidential Compute?
A plain-language primer on running code no one can peek into.
Helena Cross
January 28, 20269 min read

Notes From a First Hackathon
A student on shipping in 36 hours and the people who made it click.
Ravi Kulkarni
December 12, 20257 min read