THE UAF INDEX

Autonomy

Autonomy

Kodiak names Dallas–Houston as its planned driverless trucking lane

Autonomous trucking company Kodiak says it is preparing Dallas–Houston as the first highway lane for an unsupervised commercial launch, targeted by the end of 2026. The company describes successful preparation runs, but the route remains a plan until the public operation begins and outside…

Autonomy

When the demo stops being the moat

Dan Greenheck’s reflection on Astra and Three.js work is a small record of a larger shift: visible demos are becoming cheaper, while judgment, maintainability and trust remain harder to automate.

Agents

Agents need a handover protocol

An agent that works for minutes or hours does not merely need a better prompt. It needs a handover protocol: a durable account of what it was asked to do, what it tried, what remains uncertain and who can take over.

Policy

The year agents acquired a governance vocabulary

The public argument about agents often begins with capability. The more durable 2025 development was administrative: teams began naming the controls required when software can pursue goals, use tools and carry context across interactions.

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