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Bending Spoons Bought Airtable. Now Check Your Plan.
Business Strategy
· 6 min read

Bending Spoons Bought Airtable. Now Check Your Plan.

Airtable grew past $480M ARR at 20% and still sold for $1.285B cash against an $11B mark. Picking a vendor means picking its next owner too.

Airtable Bending Spoons SaaS valuation
FairMindSim: An Inverted U Built From Just 10 Models
Business Strategy
· 7 min read

FairMindSim: An Inverted U Built From Just 10 Models

A KDD 2026 paper says mid-tier models punish twice as hard as humans. The curve rests on 10 models and a correlation that misses conventional significance.

FairMindSim KDD 2026 AI moral judgment
MSO: capital doesn't buy the firm, it buys the platform
Business Strategy
· 8 min read

MSO: capital doesn't buy the firm, it buys the platform

Private equity can't own a law firm. So it buys the MSO instead: the brand, the billing systems, the case data, the AI licenses. Then it rents them back.

MSO private equity professional services
Anthropic marks what Claude touches, not what it wrote
Business Strategy
· 6 min read

Anthropic marks what Claude touches, not what it wrote

Anthropic signed the EU AI Act Article 50(2) code. Claude's invisible watermark proves the text was processed, not authored. That gap is your problem.

Anthropic Claude EU AI Act
Fish Audio is 70% cheaper. ElevenLabs grew anyway
Business Strategy
· 6 min read

Fish Audio is 70% cheaper. ElevenLabs grew anyway

Fish Audio opened its weights and charges $0.05 a minute against $0.18. ElevenLabs still went from $350M to over $500M ARR. Where the moat actually moved.

voice AI ElevenLabs Fish Audio
Thrive bet $1 billion on an asset AI is dissolving
Business Strategy
· 6 min read

Thrive bet $1 billion on an asset AI is dissolving

Private equity bought accounting firms for billable-hour cash flow. The AI those same funds are installing erodes exactly that. What it means for you.

private equity professional services billable hour
Qwen3.8-Max redesigned a chip from 8,298 gates to 678
Business Strategy
· 8 min read

Qwen3.8-Max redesigned a chip from 8,298 gates to 678

Alibaba opened the weights of a 2.4T-parameter model that ran ~500 closed-loop chip design iterations alone. Your evaluation criteria just went stale.

Qwen Alibaba open weights
PwC's AI Reports Had Fake Citations and a ChatGPT Tag
Business Strategy
· 7 min read

PwC's AI Reports Had Fake Citations and a ChatGPT Tag

GPTZero found hallucinated citations across four PwC Middle East AI reports. One footnote URL still carried utm_source=chatgpt.com. What it says about pricing.

PwC AI hallucinations professional services
They Offered Adam Liska $200,000 for His Code. He Said No.
Business Strategy
· 8 min read

They Offered Adam Liska $200,000 for His Code. He Said No.

An AI data company offered Adam Liska up to $200,000 to license Airspeed's codebase. He turned it down. The real asset is the operating history behind it.

Adam Liska Airspeed AI training data

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