Live Coverage · Part of AI Week 2026

Ai4 2026 Live

August 4–6, 2026 · The Venetian, Las Vegas. Daily recaps, keynote notes, startup discoveries, and a running prediction scorecard — reported from the floor of America's largest AI industry event by Lance Ennen.

Daily Coverage

Heading to Ai4 After Stanford and Berkeley: The Questions I Want Answered

After a week of stablecoins at Stanford and autonomous agents at Berkeley, I’m heading to Ai4 in Las Vegas — with a list of questions about enterprise agents, and five predictions I’m putting on the record.

August 2, 2026

Prediction Scorecard

Made before the conference in the Ai4 preview, scored during the event. Predictions never get rewritten after the fact.

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Agent orchestration will be the loudest theme on the expo floor — more booths will sell coordination, observability, or governance for agents than model access itself.

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Most enterprise "agent" deployments presented on stage will turn out to be single-workflow automations with a human approval gate, not multi-agent systems.

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Memory and context management will be named as the top unsolved problem by at least three speakers across different tracks.

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Stablecoins and AI-driven payments will barely register at Ai4 despite dominating Stanford BASS — the enterprise AI and payments-infrastructure worlds are still separate conversations.

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At least one major vendor will announce an "AI employee" product, and its demo will quietly depend on human review for anything consequential.

Catch Up on the Series

Ai4 is the third stop of a week across the AI ecosystem — after Stanford BASS and the Berkeley Agentic AI Summit.

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