The State of Docs Report 2026 is live — insights from documentation experts across the industry on AI's growing role, how teams are measuring success, and where there are still gaps. Read the full report here: buff.ly/yMjIIsX

AI changes who reads your docs. It doesn't change who they're for. GitBook Docs Lead Sarah makes the case that even when agents retrieve, summarize, and execute your documentation — there's always a human on the other side of the outcome. Read the full post: gitbook.com/blog/humans-are-…

We brought GitBook Agent directly into the editor. Open it from a new floating panel, handle updates inline, and add it as a reviewer on all of your changes. Free plan users can now try it too, with a weekly limit that resets automatically. Read more: gitbook.com/docs/changelog

"Information architecture will always matter." CT Smith at @payabli put it bluntly — even after finding that 68% of their users went straight to search and nobody touched the table of contents. Nearly 70% of documentation teams now factor AI into their information architecture and docs decisions. Structure isn't just a “nice-to-have” anymore. Interested in contributing to next year's report? Get in touch: stateofdocs.com/take-part

GitBook Agent improvements, better filtering for AI insights, and updates to the editing experience for you and your team. See everything we shipped this month in our May roundup: buff.ly/yXPMVZR

Most teams spend a lot of time on the words in their docs, and not much time on anything else. But structure, hierarchy, and visual consistency have a real effect on whether readers trust your docs, find what they need, and come back. We put together 5 concrete things that consistently make the biggest difference — from getting your information architecture right before touching the customization panel, to why landing pages should always be built last. gitbook.com/blog/guide-to-de…

Most doc rewrites fail because teams migrate the mess instead of fixing it. Frends scrapped everything and rebuilt from scratch — and redefined what docs are even for. Read the full story on how they used GitBook to teach their AI assistant their product and cut repetitive support questions for good: gitbook.com/customers/frends

Want to keep learning about what the docs industry is saying? We've pulled together recent blog posts from contributors at @AnthropicAI, @sigmacomputing, and more — sharing their perspectives on where technical documentation is headed. Read the roundup: stateofdocs.com/2026/contrib…

📺 We're happy to announce the first batch of videos are now available from DEVWorld 2026! Featuring: Sara Tandowsky @saratandowsky CEO of @GitBookIO Alex Olivier @alexolivier co-founder of @cerbosdev Shafik Quoraishee @SQuoraishee game developer at @nytimes Mathias Biilmann Christensen @biilmann CEO at Netify Daniel Friedlaender from @CCIAeurope, Mark Wolkenfelt co-founder LeadLabel, and Masha Moisseyeva from DutchBasecamp Srini V. Srinivasan CTO at Aerospike Martin Reynolds and John Crespo from Harness Allison Farris from Stripe Patricija Žemaityte from Oxylabs Lee Briggs from Tailscale Juliette van der Laarse from Nationale-Nederlanden Thank you to all our speakers and be tuned for more videos this week! And if you're interested in joining the waitlist for DEVWorld 2027 head here: devworldconference.com/