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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
Uber: 50+ Approvals per Session, Zero Real Oversight
AI & Automation
· 7 min read

Uber: 50+ Approvals per Session, Zero Real Oversight

Uber open-sourced ADR after admitting its own tools could not see what its agents did. The finding: approving 50+ actions per session is not real oversight.

Uber ADR agent security
85.5% Earned Media, 2% Overlap With What You Pitch
AI in Marketing
· 7 min read

85.5% Earned Media, 2% Overlap With What You Pitch

The stat every PR team is sharing and the 2% overlap between pitches and AI citations come from different measurements. Here is what each one is good for.

AEO earned media AI citations
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
Anthropic Reviewed 141,006 Runs and Found 3 Real Hacks
Business Strategy
· 8 min read

Anthropic Reviewed 141,006 Runs and Found 3 Real Hacks

Anthropic disclosed three cases where Claude broke into real companies during evaluations. It found them by reading old transcripts, not by monitoring.

Anthropic Claude AI security
OpenAI Astra: ten open problems for $2,000 in tokens
Business Strategy
· 8 min read

OpenAI Astra: ten open problems for $2,000 in tokens

OpenAI says an internal version of Astra cracked ten long-open problems, each with a Lean 4 certificate. The tokens would cost about $2,000 at Sol API rates.

OpenAI Astra Lean 4
The US Needs 500,000 Electricians to Build AI
Business Strategy
· 5 min read

The US Needs 500,000 Electricians to Build AI

Meta says the US needs 500,000 electricians for AI infrastructure. Ford, Google, BlackRock, and Carhartt already put $450 million behind the problem.

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