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AI is not the reason for massive layoffs
In January, AI was blamed for roughly 7% of announced US job cuts. By May, about 40%.The technology did not get 5 times better in four months. You already know…
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Hawaii's Big Island under rare hurricane landfall threat as Tropical Storm Lala strengthens
HONOLULU (AP) — Tropical Storm Lala is expected to strengthen to a hurricane before reaching…
What to know about Luigi Mangione's guilty plea in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
NEW YORK (AP) — Luigi Mangione’s guilty plea on Friday to federal stalking-to-kill charges raised…
Judge refuses to block Trump administration from building border wall along tribe's reservation
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge refused on Friday to block the Trump administration from…
Shootings in Michigan leave 5 people plus suspect dead following large-scale search
A series of shootings in Michigan left five people plus a suspect dead Friday, police…
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Anthropic shipped 10 finance agents. I installed and tested them for CFOs
Anthropic changed how CFOs build financial models.They shipped 10 ready-to-run agent templates for finance. Pitch builder. Meeting preparer. Model builder.…
Four eras of San Francisco tech culture
Photo by Jack Dorsey via Wikimedia.orgThe other day I went on the Monitoring the Situation livestream, and we talked about…
CFOs can install an Annual Budget Skill and build next year’s plan with Claude in 15 minutes
It is late September, and your board wants next year’s plan on the calendar before Thanksgiving. So FP&A opens the…
No, you are not on Indigenous land
I’ve been dealing with more rabbit problems today, so here’s a repost to tide you over til tomorrow.The Republican party…
NVIDIA Cut AI Agent Costs in Half Without Touching the Model. Your Margins Live in the Harness
TL;DRThe paper: NVIDIA pointed a research AI at the harness, the machinery around the model, and let it hunt for…
BREAKING: Claude Opus 5.5 Just Made Frontier AI 40% Cheaper. Here Is the Fundraising Playbook
TL;DRThe model: Opus 5.5 performs at Fable 5.1 level on most work and costs 40% less to run than Opus…
I just built a 13-week cash flow forecast with Claude
Cash flow forecasting is the one thing your board trusts least and needs most.Your CFO team understands cash, and yet…
The problem(s) with utilitarianism
Much to my amusement, the world seems to have discovered Effective Altruism. As the debate over AI safety and AI…