Newsroom · from the field

What's happening at XSI.

Press releases, blog posts, and milestones — cross-published in parity with the xsilodestone.ai blog. Corporate and XSI-AIMS™-spec content lives here; product and customer-story content lives on xsilodestone.ai.

Press release
2026-07

Do you have an apprentice? — XSI Apprentice™ learns a task by watching, then runs it under your sign-off

XSI Apprentice is a governed programming-by-demonstration tool built on the Microsoft Agent Framework — a worker demonstrates a repetitive task once, and Apprentice runs it only with human sign-off.

Canonical: xtendedsystems.com
Press release
2026-06

XSI puts the agentic coworker in the room — voice support, now in preview

Conversational voice support is in preview for XSI LodeStone and XSI-AIMS for the Microsoft Agent Framework — an agent that joins the meeting and takes the huddle, under the same human-gated governance, on infrastructure the customer controls.

Canonical: xtendedsystems.com
Blog
2026-06

The agents are already acting. The governance layer isn't there.

Agents take actions now, on someone's behalf — and the layer that supervises them, on any model or cloud or none, is mostly missing. Why XSI is publishing ours in the open.

Canonical: xtendedsystems.com
Blog
2026-06

Why agentic AI needs a spec, not just a framework

Frameworks tell you how to build an agent. A specification tells everyone what a governed agent must do. The case for XSI-AIMS as an open standard.

Canonical: xtendedsystems.com
Blog
2026-06

Biodiversity of virtual lifeforms

Why the future of agentic systems looks less like one giant model and more like an organism of routed specialists — and what that demands of governance.

Canonical: xtendedsystems.com
Press release
2026-06

XSI-AIMS v2.0 ships — an open governance standard for agentic systems

Extended Systems Intelligence publishes XSI-AIMS v2.0 with the public agent registry and commercial implementations XSI-AIMS Atlas™ and XSI-AIMS Compass™. Substrate-, model-, and deployment-agnostic.

Canonical: xtendedsystems.com
Blog
2026-06

Least-cost routing, reborn

Requirements-scored routing in XSI-AIMS Compass — the cheapest model that meets each call's declared requirements, on every call.

Canonical: xtendedsystems.com
Blog
2026-06

Why does XSI-AIMS have eight kinds of memory?

Eight memory subsystems and the TMS bus that ties them together — how XSI-AIMS Atlas routes memory across the XSI-AIMS architecture.

Canonical: xtendedsystems.com
Blog
2026-04

Why ISPs are the ideal AI market

ISPs have the data, the customer base, and the local presence. They also have the regulatory pressure that makes sovereign agentic AI a fit.

Originally on xsilodestone.ai
Milestone
2026-05

XSI-AIMS™ for MAF listing approved on Microsoft AppSource

Microsoft approved XSI-AIMS™ for the Microsoft Agent Framework for listing on AppSource. The Contact-Me listing opens June 22.

Canonical: xtendedsystems.com
Press release
2026-06

XSI-AIMS™ for the Microsoft Agent Framework is live on AppSource

The first substrate runtime of the XSI-AIMS open standard is live on Microsoft AppSource — one click from any team building on the Microsoft Agent Framework.

Canonical: xtendedsystems.com
Blog
2026-05

There are nearly 2.8 million models on Hugging Face. Your ISP needs exactly the right six.

Model selection as a curation discipline — why curated skills beat catalog sprawl.

Originally on xsilodestone.ai
Blog
2026-05

What 30 years of broadband intelligence looks like when it runs as an agent

ETI domain intelligence, operationalized on the appliance.

Originally on xsilodestone.ai
Blog
2026-04

The FCC compliance obligation that will define broadband operations for the next decade

BDC filings as an automation problem — and what agents change.

Originally on xsilodestone.ai
Blog
2026-04

Your cloud AI bill will surprise you. Here's the math.

Cloud vs on-prem TCO for production agentic workloads.

Originally on xsilodestone.ai
Blog
2026-04

Why your AI agent should start by doing nothing

Shadow mode as the responsible on-ramp to autonomy.

Originally on xsilodestone.ai
Blog
2026-04

Why "TM Forum-aligned" is the difference between an AI demo and an ISP deployment

Standards alignment as the deployment gate for telecom.

Originally on xsilodestone.ai
Blog
2026-04

Why most AI appliances won't survive production

What separates a demo box from a production appliance.

Originally on xsilodestone.ai
Blog
2026-04

AI agents that make things up will cost your business more than you think

Consensus validation as the answer to hallucinating agents.

Originally on xsilodestone.ai
Blog
2026-04

Your AI knows your secrets. Where does it keep them?

Data sovereignty as the first question of agentic AI.

Originally on xsilodestone.ai
Blog
2026-04

From the field: what we learned building AI agents for ISP operations

Field notes from the first deployments.

Originally on xsilodestone.ai