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Week in AI
Jul 17, 2026

DoorDash's agent lifted checkout 24%. Here's how.

DoorDash published the numbers. Thinking Machines opened the weights. The question now is who can prove their AI worked.

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Daily Brief
Jul 16, 2026

Anthropic’s $1.5B implementation bet just got a name

Ode with Anthropic is live. The bet behind it is that implementation, not models, is where the money goes.

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Daily Brief
Jul 15, 2026

The two AI workflow tools your team depends on just merged

Prefect acquired Dagster. If your team runs data pipelines or is building agents on top of them, this changes the vendor landscape. Plus four more things today.

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The Ready Memo
Jul 14, 2026

16 Nobel winners just addressed your board agenda

The 200+ economists who understand labor disruption best just said the window is closing. Here’s what that means inside your company.

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Week in AI
Jul 10, 2026

AI completed a BMW. What's it completing at your company?

ChatGPT Work, AlphaEvolve, humanoid robots at BMW. This week was about finishing, not assisting.

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Daily Brief
Jul 9, 2026

What Liberty Mutual knew that most companies didn't

When Fable 5 went dark, Liberty Mutual kept running. Their infrastructure approach is the playbook every operator should know.

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Daily Brief
Jul 8, 2026

The $2B bet that AI wins through acquisition

SoftBank and Thrive are buying accounting and IT firms to transform them with AI. Plus four other reads for today.

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The Ready Memo
Jul 7, 2026

A 35B model just matched a 1T model on agent tasks

The model commodity crash arrived quietly last Monday. Here is what it means for operators trying to build something durable.

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Daily Brief
Jul 3, 2026

The government just became an AI counterparty

The government pulled a model, got an equity offer, and Anthropic started building its own chips. All this week.

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Daily Brief
Jul 2, 2026

Fable 5 is back. Coding costs just went up.

Fable 5 returns globally today with a forced fallback to Opus 4.8 for coding tasks. Plus four other moves that matter for operators this week.

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Daily Brief
Jul 1, 2026

The AI success rate your team is probably ignoring

Spotify's AI workflow isn't about more Claude sessions; it's about the verification layer they built around them.

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Daily Brief
Jun 30, 2026

The AI Consultants Are Being Disrupted

Accenture just lost 20% in a day. Here's what that says about whether you still need a consultant

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Daily Brief
Jun 26, 2026

A $30M startup wants to watch every AI agent in your company

Claude moved into Slack. Gong shipped a governed-agent layer for revenue teams. Runlayer raised $30M to watch them.

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Daily Brief
Jun 25, 2026

Claude Tag moves into Slack channels

Anthropic replaced its Slack app with a persistent Claude agent that lives in the channel. Plus four other reads for today.

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Daily Brief
Jun 24, 2026

A $100M AI buyer swapped in a model 23x cheaper

Frontier-model bills stopped falling, and the largest AI buyers started swapping in cheaper tiers from the same vendors.

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Daily Brief
Jun 19, 2026

The government broke Anthropic's best model this week

Anthropic's Fable 5 ban is ending, two of the field's most consequential people moved to the same lab, and the gap between an agent demo and a production system just closed faster than procurement can absorb.

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Daily Brief
Jun 18, 2026

Cursor is training its own 1.5T-parameter model

Cursor announced a 1.5T-parameter frontier model at Compile, and OpenAI's leaked 2025 financials show what that bill looks like.

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Daily Brief
Jun 17, 2026

SpaceX just bought your engineering team's IDE for $60B

The strategic buyers of AI tooling are no longer the software companies you'd expect, and the price tags are doubling between rounds.

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Daily Brief
Jun 16, 2026

Anthropic's best model got an export control letter on Friday night

Lutnick's letter shut down Claude Fable 5 worldwide on Saturday. The precedent matters more than the model.

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Daily Brief
Jun 12, 2026

AI just got $535 billion more expensive to build, and harder to buy.

Anthropic charged a premium for refusal, OpenAI signed a $500B Ohio lease, and Apple shipped Siri AI on a Gemini foundation.

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Daily Brief
Jun 11, 2026

Anthropic built its best model. You can't buy it.

Anthropic released Mythos to the public as Fable 5, then engineered it to refuse the categories that make Mythos Mythos.

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Daily Brief
Jun 10, 2026

Anthropic just shipped Mythos on AWS Bedrock day one

A frontier model bump arrives inside the AWS contract you already have. Plus OpenAI's S-1 and four more.

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Daily Brief
Jun 9, 2026

Apple just made your AI vendor question routable

Apple put OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google behind Siri AI on Monday. Microsoft built the opposite stack at Build last week.

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Daily Brief
Jun 5, 2026

Tesla put a driverless taxi on Austin roads this week

Tesla launched an unsupervised Robotaxi. Microsoft launched its own model on its own chip. Bain said the savings aren't landing.

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Daily Brief
Jun 4, 2026

The AI ROI gap is a forecasting problem

Bain says the AI deployments worked, the cost savings didn't show up. Plus Alphabet's $80B raise, Coralogix's $200M, the Trump AI EO, and a Microsoft token-efficiency claim.

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Daily Brief
Jun 3, 2026

Microsoft just built the off-ramp from OpenAI

Microsoft shipped its first frontier reasoning model trained without OpenAI. Plus Anthropic's S-1, Dell's 88%, GitHub Copilot's desktop app.

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Daily Brief
Jun 2, 2026

Your $19 Copilot seat is now a $3,000 bill

GitHub Copilot and MiniMax both flipped to token billing on the same day. Every AI tool you use is sitting on this trigger.

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Daily Brief
May 29, 2026

Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 the same week Salesforce hit $11B

Three real-money numbers landed in five days, and the first viral counter-narrative arrived alongside them. The week the AI category got measured

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Daily Brief
May 28, 2026

Cognition just hit $492M run-rate building Devin

A coding-agent company posted a $492 million revenue run-rate alongside its $1 billion round, and the run-rate is the number that matters for procurement teams. Plus five other things that moved.

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Daily Brief
May 27, 2026

OpenAI is filing to go public at $730B

The lab you wrote into your AI roadmap is about to answer to public markets. Plus five other things.

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Daily Brief
May 26, 2026

The Pope, Starbucks, and the AI bill that lands on the platform team

Pope Leo XIV's encyclical, Starbucks' quiet retirement, and the org-design problem AI just made expensive.

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Daily Brief
May 22, 2026

Codex hit 4 million weekly developers

The week split the AI category into two operating modes: agents that keep working after you walk away, and buyers absorbing the gap.

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Daily Brief
May 21, 2026

Karpathy joins Anthropic

Anthropic just made recursive AI research an explicit org structure, with Andrej Karpathy running it.

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Daily Brief
May 20, 2026

Gemini moved into every surface Google owns

Google made agents a default surface across Search, Android, Workspace, and shopping, and METR put real numbers on what those agents still can't verify on their

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Daily Brief
May 19, 2026

The strongest agent finished under 4% of real work last week

Six vendors said agents are the primary user this week. A new benchmark says agents finish under 4% of real workflows. Both are true.

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Daily Brief
May 15, 2026

Mintlify just killed seat pricing in one sentence

Three same-week moves admit that the pricing model SaaS was built on no longer fits when agents are the users.

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Daily Brief
May 14, 2026

Mercedes cut 8 months of work to 8 days

Coding agents stopped being a developer experiment yesterday. Plus Codex on Windows, a Claude Code console, and a quiet supply-chain attack on npm.

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Daily Brief
May 13, 2026

Microsoft has made $30B from OpenAI

The Microsoft-OpenAI revenue split just shifted. Plus Google's first AI-generated zero-day and Mira Murati's debut.

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Daily Brief
May 12, 2026

30 days of AI training is free (limited time)

Exclusive for newsletter subscribers: A 30-day personalized AI training program, free for readers who complete the extended assessment. AI Ready Team is open too.

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Daily Brief
May 12, 2026

Only 19% of AI users work in a company built for it

Microsoft surveyed 20,000 workers, and the gap they found is not the tool, it is the org chart around it.

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Daily Brief
May 8, 2026

Anthropic just leased Elon's Memphis supercluster

Anthropic gets Colossus 1, OpenAI's depth gap widens to 3.5x, and Wendy's keeps scaling while Taco Bell pauses.

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Daily Brief
May 7, 2026

The 3.5x intelligence gap inside enterprises is widening

OpenAI's enterprise data shows depth of use, not access, is now the divide. Plus IBM's Think keynote, GPT-5.5 Instant, and CPC ads in ChatGPT.

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Daily Brief
May 6, 2026

Anthropic just put Claude inside Excel

Anthropic shipped ten ready-to-use finance agents and put Claude inside Excel and PowerPoint. Here's what changed.

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Daily Brief
May 5, 2026

The AI labs just became consulting firms

Anthropic and OpenAI both launched enterprise services firms yesterday, hours apart. The implementation layer for enterprise AI just changed hands.

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Daily Brief
May 1, 2026

Big Tech is spending $725B and supply is still the bottleneck

Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta all said capacity, not demand, is the constraint. The procurement implications start now.

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Daily Brief
Apr 30, 2026

Your Word doc is now an agent

Agentic AI inside Word and Excel went from feature flag to default this week, which changes who has it from the early adopters to everyone with a 365 license. Plus four shorter reads on Big Tech earnings, GM and Gemini, the largest seed in European history, and an open model crossing a frontier coding threshold.

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Daily Brief
Apr 29, 2026

OpenAI is now a Bedrock vendor

Microsoft ended OpenAI's cloud exclusivity, and within 48 hours, OpenAI was live on AWS. Plus five shorter reads on Musk, Manus, NVIDIA, Joby, and Google's Pentagon deal.

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Daily Brief
Apr 28, 2026

Your AI stack has a guardrail problem

An AI agent deleted nine seconds of work that took three months to build. Your stack might be running the same access pattern.

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Daily Brief
Apr 24, 2026

The week AI stopped being a product

GPT-5.5 set a new bar, the coding wars got ugly, and Sullivan & Cromwell showed operators exactly how AI velocity breaks.

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Daily Brief
Apr 23, 2026

Your AI vendor supply chain just became your attack surface

Today's signal: the AI tools you connected to your systems over the last 18 months are now a supply-chain attack surface, and three breaches in one week are the evidence. Plus, what to do about it, OpenAI going after enterprise, and five other things that moved.

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Daily Brief
Apr 22, 2026

Anthropic just tied itself to AWS for a decade

Today's operating signal: the compute layer is becoming a lock-in tier of its own. Plus four shorter reads on Apple, Chrome, NSA, and a new Anthropic Labs product.

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The Ready Memo
Apr 21, 2026

Switching AI foundations is about to get expensive

The case for one vendor, and when to break your own rule.

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Daily Brief
Apr 14, 2026

Why the Same Model Performs Differently

Why the same model can vary by 16 points, and how harness design determines agent performance in production

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Daily Brief
Apr 9, 2026

Anthropic Unveiled Its Most Powerful Model and Decided Not to Release It

What Claude Mythos found in the world's most critical software and why it changed everything

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Daily Brief
Apr 7, 2026

Anthropic just passed OpenAI in revenue. Here's what's behind it.

$30 billion in run-rate revenue, 1,000 enterprise customers spending $1M+ each, and a 3.5 gigawatt compute deal.

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Daily Brief
Apr 2, 2026

What the Claude Code Leak Actually Tells Us

500,000 lines of source code, 44 hidden feature flags, and a clearer picture of where AI agents are heading

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Daily Brief
Mar 31, 2026

What Stripe Actually Built

1,300 pull requests a week, zero human-written code. Here's what the deployment looked like, and what it means for the rest of us.

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Daily Brief
Mar 26, 2026

Gartner Survey Shows That Headcount Expectations Just Hit a Six-Year Low

CFOs aren't firing into AI. They're just not backfilling. Here's what the numbers actually say.

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Daily Brief
Mar 24, 2026

Claude Is Building an OpenClaw Competitor

Four features in 30 days, each one a direct answer to OpenClaw's biggest enterprise problem

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Daily Brief
Mar 19, 2026

OpenAI Just Bought Your Python Toolchain

OpenAI isn't building a coding tool anymore. Spoiler alert: it's buying the stack.

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Daily Brief
Mar 17, 2026

Jensen Said You Need an OpenClaw Strategy

NVIDIA shipped a security layer for OpenClaw. Here's what it solves, and what it doesn't.

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Daily Brief
Mar 12, 2026

Nvidia Just Entered the Agent Wars

Jensen called OpenClaw the most important software ever. A week later, Nvidia announced its own version.

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Daily Brief
Mar 10, 2026

AI Just Gave Solo Founders a Full Team

How a new generation of founders is building real businesses with AI handling everything else

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Daily Brief
Mar 5, 2026

Block just fired half its company. Dorsey says most CEOs will follow.

What happens when cutting half your company becomes the bullish move

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Daily Brief
Mar 3, 2026

Anthropic Held the Line. Here's What Happened Next.

Two weeks ago, I asked what you would do if you were Anthropic's board. Now we have the answer.

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Daily Brief
Feb 26, 2026

Which AI Tool Should You Actually Be Using?

Should I Use ChatGPT or Claude? Claude Code or Cowork? OpenClaw?

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Daily Brief
Feb 24, 2026

IBM Is Tripling Junior Hiring. Here's What They Know That You Don't.

AI can do most entry-level jobs. IBM's response? Hire more entry-level people.

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Daily Brief
Feb 19, 2026

OpenClaw is the future. Here's what it means for your company.

The agent everyone's installing is also a security nightmare.

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Daily Brief
Feb 17, 2026

The Feud Between Anthropic and the Pentagon (in 5 Minutes or Less)

The $200M dispute that could change how AI gets deployed everywhere

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Daily Brief
Feb 12, 2026

I Spent 8 Years Preparing People for AI. I Wasn't Prepared Enough.

What taxi medallions taught me about the gap between Silicon Valley and everyone else.

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Daily Brief
Feb 10, 2026

Becoming AI Ready Is Boring (That's the Point)

So I built something to help change that.

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Daily Brief
Feb 5, 2026

Is SaaS Dead? It's Complicated...

The SaaSpocalypse and $285 billion vanished. Here's what's happening.

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Daily Brief
Feb 3, 2026

Moltbook Is Not the Singularity You Think It Is

Viral screenshots, bold claims, and a much simpler truth

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Daily Brief
Jan 29, 2026

How to Stay Relevant When AI Writes Your Code

"If I'm not writing the code, what am I doing?"

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Daily Brief
Jan 27, 2026

We're not coding anymore. We're spec'ing.

How Andrej Karpathy's workflow changed overnight, and what it means for the rest of us

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Daily Brief
Jan 20, 2026

The Viral Trillion-Dollar Opportunity Blog. Explained.

What the context graph essay claims (and I think it's only half-right)

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Daily Brief
Jan 14, 2026

How You’re Going to Get the Most Out of Claude Cowork

Let's turn a powerful agent into something that actually helps you work.

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Daily Brief
Jan 7, 2026

What Happened at CES 2026?

From AI chips to safety debates, the future is taking shape. How can you benefit from the signals?

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Daily Brief
Dec 30, 2025

The Feedback Recession

Why teams are learning less, even as they ship more.

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Daily Brief
Dec 23, 2025

The Competence Cliff

Why teams often get worse, before they get better, when they adopt AI (and what to do about it).

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Daily Brief
Dec 18, 2025

Nobody Knows What “Good” Looks Like Anymore

Why quality standards collapsed in the AI era and a founder-friendly playbook to rebuild them.

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Daily Brief
Dec 9, 2025

Case study: How GitHub Copilot actually scaled inside Microsoft

What you can learn from the mega org that started treating AI like a skill.

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Daily Brief
Dec 4, 2025

The Illusion of Learning: Why AI Workshops Don’t Change How People Work

And the #1 way to stop your AI projects from stalling.

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Daily Brief
Nov 27, 2025

The Reason Your AI Projects Stall After Month Three

A systems-level explanation.

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Daily Brief
Nov 20, 2025

The Hidden Cost of Bad AI Autonomy

AI agents can slow your team down. Here's how to avoid shipping the problem.

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Daily Brief
Nov 11, 2025

Why Most Teams Forget What They Learn

And how to build systems that actually retain and apply knowledge.

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Daily Brief
Nov 4, 2025

How to build AI agents that are actually good

A simple way to make AI agents that useful, predictable, and trustworthy.

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Daily Brief
Oct 28, 2025

Why models hallucinate (and what to do about it)

Short answer: because they’re trying to be useful, not truthful.

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Daily Brief
Oct 23, 2025

Inside Co-Founder: The AI Built That Can Run a Billion-Dollar Company | Andrew Pignanelli, Co-Founder (GIC)

The story behind Co-Founder: From the man behind the viral launch of “the one-person billion-dollar company.”

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Daily Brief
Oct 14, 2025

How to Kickstart Your Career in the AI Era | Christine Y. Cruzvergara (Chief Education Strategy Officer at Handshake)

What every college student needs to know about jobs, AI skills, and networking in 2025.

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Daily Brief
Oct 7, 2025

The Underrated Force Behind Every Successful AI Pilot

How FOMO became the most effective AI adoption strategy of 2025.

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Daily Brief
Sep 24, 2025

The Secret Ingredient to AI Adoption Nobody Talks About | James Evans (Head of AI at Amplitude)

Peer pressure isn't always a bad thing. Sometimes it's exactly what you need.

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Daily Brief
Sep 17, 2025

The Test That Decides Whether Your AI Pilot Survives | Tomasz Tunguz (Founder of Theory Ventures)

SaaS metrics, baby: retention, revenue, and the one eval that tells you if it’ll scale.

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Daily Brief
Sep 9, 2025

How to Code Smarter with AI (and Avoid the Biggest Mistakes) | Elie Schoppik (Head of Education)

Here’s how Anthropic’s Head of Education uses AI

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Daily Brief
Sep 3, 2025

5 Rules for Shipping AI Your Customers Actually Trust — Lessons from Vanta’s CPO

A CPO’s playbook for shipping AI that’s accurate, transparent, and sticky with customers.

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Daily Brief
Aug 27, 2025

We trained 70,000 people in AI. Here's what happened next...

Not A Bot is back — and it’s evolving

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Daily Brief
Nov 22, 2024

💬 Mistral challenges OpenAI

PLUS: AMD pushes for hardware-agnostic AI development

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Daily Brief
Nov 1, 2024

🪖 Chinese military AI

PLUS: AI generates over 25% of Google’s new code

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Daily Brief
Oct 25, 2024

Apple 🤝 ChatGPT

PLUS: Computer-using AI agents are here

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Daily Brief
Oct 18, 2024

🔋 Nuclear power

PLUS: How does Vinod Khosla see AI?

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