Executive summary
PROVE framework helps decide when to keep AI tools
The pressure to adopt AI is not evidence that a tool works. The Nielsen Norman Group's PROVE framework (opens in a new tab) offers a method to test one tool against one task, yielding a provisional decision. Meanwhile, Cloudflare introduces Radar Researcher (opens in a new tab), an AI tool for exploring Internet data in plain language, and shifts bot mitigation to continuous trust evaluation for the Agentic Internet (opens in a new tab).
On the development side, Stack Overflow (opens in a new tab) discusses what it takes to be fearlessly AI native, and Stripe Dev (opens in a new tab) explores agentic payments for marketplaces.