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Uber's Agentic Pods: 16 Teams, 10 Days, One Playbook
Business Strategy
· 4 min read

Uber's Agentic Pods: 16 Teams, 10 Days, One Playbook

Uber's CTO published the exact 10-day method behind Agentic Pods, which took agentic AI beyond engineering into 16 different business functions.

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21 Free Skills Turn Claude Into an MBB-Style Strategist
AI in Marketing
· 4 min read

21 Free Skills Turn Claude Into an MBB-Style Strategist

Oria published 21 free Claude skills for market mapping, competitive intel, and pricing. What it means for a marketing team with no in-house strategist.

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Anthropic Admits Its Own AI Erodes Human Skills
Business Strategy
· 5 min read

Anthropic Admits Its Own AI Erodes Human Skills

Anthropic's January 2026 Economic Index found a net deskilling effect from Claude. The empathy research shows the mechanism, and the fix isn't dropping AI.

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Anthropic gave Figma three days' notice before competing
AI & Automation
· 5 min read

Anthropic gave Figma three days' notice before competing

Anthropic's chief product officer resigned from Figma's board on April 14. Three days later, Anthropic launched Claude Design, its direct competitor.

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Blackstone bet on Norm AI. The market just agreed.
Business Strategy
· 7 min read

Blackstone bet on Norm AI. The market just agreed.

Blackstone put $50M into Norm AI in November and started using it inside its own legal function. Eight months later, a Series C valued the company at $1.2B.

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Amodei Told the Senate to Audit AI Before It Turns Lethal
Business Strategy
· 5 min read

Amodei Told the Senate to Audit AI Before It Turns Lethal

Dario Amodei asked the Senate for mandatory testing of frontier AI models, comparing them to airplanes. Your company should be demanding the same thing

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AI Doesn't Make You Better. It Amplifies What You Are
AI & Automation
· 5 min read

AI Doesn't Make You Better. It Amplifies What You Are

An engineer with Claude closes in an afternoon what used to take a week. The same tool, in careless hands, wipes a production database instead.

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Marketing Doesn't Need More AI. It Needs Less Sediment.
AI in Marketing
· 6 min read

Marketing Doesn't Need More AI. It Needs Less Sediment.

Before you automate a marketing workflow with AI, ask if you'd design it the same way today. If the answer is no, AI just gives you faster sediment

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