Essential UC Berkeley Math Primer for Machine Learning
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AI Turns Dull Office Tasks Into Fun Games
Most office work is boring... AI is already making it fun again. Not only is it helping automate work, but people are also gamifying work. Have seen people build sales leaderboards with Replit and video games to help you clear...
AI Threatens S&P's Analytics, Not Its Core Ratings
About 65% of $SPGI's (down >20% over past month) pre-tax earnings come from ratings & indices. The potential challenge that AI poses to S&P's analytics/consulting/intel business is something I get. But I don't understand AI's bear case for ratings & indices,...
Use Openclaw to Create Chrome Extension for Real‑Time Agent Insights
Openclaw tip: ask it to build a chrome extension for you - then you can easily send page info, screenshots, cookie information, you name it, right to your agent while browsing the web. Super helpful to turn inspo into roadmap.
Software Multiples Hit 2014 Lows Amid AI Fears
Software earnings have been quite resilient, yet prices have collapsed over AI worries. As a result, multiples are the cheapest they've been since 2014. Sometimes things are cheap for a reason, but what if this is another DeepSeek moment? Nice charts...
Predictive World Models Transform AI, Robotics, and Gaming
For our free newsletter this week, we talk about the significance of World Models. @IrenaCronin and I write this newsletter every week. World Models are AI systems that learn how an environment changes over time so an agent can predict what happens...
Build Many AI Prototypes, Kill Most to Avoid Product Debt
"Coding will be practically solved for everyone within six months." That's the most important line in this talk. It will continue to unleash unbelievable acceleration in what people can build. But it's going to lead to tons of AI...
Keep Core Systems, Use AI to Reduce Friction
There is a strategic difference between creating advantage and assuming responsibility. Mission-critical systems of record are designed to manage compliance, auditability, and operational consistency across industries. Replacing them with AI-built alternatives transfers that responsibility to internal teams for the life...
OpenClaw Unlocks Business Leverage Through Proactive Automation
“OpenClaw is overhyped.” Only if you don’t know how to use it. It’s just like having a weapon you can’t wield. Most people are just not using it for max leverage. Here’s how it’s helping from a business standpoint: 1 It’s logged into ClickFlow,...
AI Admits Laziness, Underscoring Need for Human Oversight
'Tis a very odd experience to hear your AI call itself lazy. Claude Code made an error, I caught it, I asked why it was wrong, and it told me, "Because I was being lazy about it." These are the tricky...
Excel Pros Must Learn Python to Trust Copilot
I've been doing analytics for 14+ years. And I'm a Microsoft Excel MVP. It's 2026 and top Excel users know better than making this mistake: Ignoring Python. Because Copilot in Excel uses Python to work it's magic with your data. Even if it doesn't tell...
AI Data Center Stack: System Build, Not Chip Cycle
AI DATA CENTER STACK — this is a systems build, not a chip cycle 👇 COMPUTE & SERVERS: $NVDA Owns accelerated compute end to end. CUDA locks software, NVLink locks topology. Sells architectures, not chips. Switching costs scale with clusters. $AMD Pressure valve...
AI, VR, and AR Shaping Flight Simulation's Future
AI, VR or AR? What is the future of professional flight simulation & training devices? A recent RAeS Conference explored the issues. https://t.co/ZbRn47azyY https://t.co/1s7khhvPme
AI Automates Company-Wide Content Sharing at Scale
🛑 STOP SCROLLING 🛑 🛑 STOP SCROLLING 🛑 Remember that AMAZING blog post, white paper, video or podcast your team published last year? I have a simple way for you to get more out of it in 2026... It's a simple tool...
AI Cheapens Services, Cutting Vendor Profits, Boosting Productivity
That little market freakout is a real mechanism: if AI makes it cheap to do what a vendor used to sell you, the vendor’s future profits fall—even as the rest of us get more productive. https://t.co/HE7npk5km7
Ship Imperfectly, Let Users See Your Vision
Flo Crivello , founder of Lindy told me he gave early users a product that was oily, half-broken, and rough around the edges. His no-code AI automation platform wasn't ready. Not by traditional standards. The first people through the door...
Distinguishing LLM Authors From Their Output Is Hard
Be honest, can you actually tell which LLM wrote something (ChatGPT, Claude etc.), just from the text?
AI Agents Double Deal Volume, Close $2.4M Fast
"How we built $4.8M in pipeline from our AI agents, $2.4M closed already - Deal volume has doubled - Win rate has doubled - Agents work 24x7 - Agents have more context to pull from - $100k deal closed on Saturday" https://t.co/JjohuS42oM
AI Infrastructure Drives Hardware Winners in Hyperscaler CAPEX
Hardware winners of the $600B+ hyperscaler CAPEX wave 🧵 Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are prioritizing compute, power, and networking control into 2026. ~75% of spend is AI infrastructure. Price sensitivity is low. Supply is tight. This is a vendor-selection cycle,...
AI Agents Are Redefining How Meetings Get Done
The concept of ‘business meetings’ has changed yet again. And it’s because of AI agents. Because now before every long meeting I am forced to ask myself what I want Claude Code or Claude Chrome to do for me during...
Claude AI Now Powers PowerPoint Deck Creation
🚨 Claude is now in PowerPoint, and it's just insane how good it is getting. → it works inside your template → generate full decks with logical structure → iterate to simplify → combine slides .. it can even creates editable diagrams directly in PPT...
AI Pressure Forces Caution on Listed Credit Funds
Investors are turning cautious on listed credit funds as AI pressure hits the software sector. Bonds and equity of business development companies have fallen sharply this year. AI disruption is no longer just an equity story. https://t.co/bHKVx28aQi @ft
AI Agents Deliver 5× Productivity Leap Across Knowledge Work
The effective use of agents is creating one of the widest spreads in output productivity we’ve seen on a per role basis. We didn’t see this with chatbots previously. Chatbots probably sped up work by maybe 10-20% in most cases...
Find Growth Alpha by Spotting AI’s Bad Advice
I’ve found a new favorite way to use LLMs: Checking for bad advice. Whenever I'm riffing on growth with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, and I strongly disagree with a premise, I know I’ve struck gold on both content and execution....
AI Tools Match the Skill of Their Operators
A corollary for AI tooling: its outputs will only ever be as good as the person wrangling them from it. That's really all it is. Yet another powerful tool (like a compiler, or k8s) that can only be run effectively by...
Join AI Startup Founders at Conviction's Mixture-of-Experts Event
hi! if you want to work at some of the most interesting startups in AI, come to our next mixture-of-experts event at @conviction and hear from the founders of Harmonic, Worktrace, Sunday, Treehouse and Trajectory https://t.co/ZL7mdnszUl
AI, Not Interest Rates, Drives Early-Career Job Decline
Since Bharat Chandar , Ruyu Chen and I first posted our "Canaries in the Coal Mine?" paper, there has been an explosion of research seeking to assess the relationship between AI and employment, especially for early career workers in highly...
AI's Real Divide: Users vs Non‑users of Machines
AI anxiety often misses the key margin: it’s not “humans vs machines,” it’s “humans who use machines vs humans who don’t.” The tech shifts who’s productive—and who gets paid. Remember, you don't need to outrun the bear. https://t.co/jULdqTdCrU
AI‑Powered Slack Cuts Collaboration Time From Months to Days
We saw firsthand the power of AI. 🤖🏈 Slack helped us collaborate w/ MrBeast in just 27 days instead of 6 months. Slackbot became our teammate, a coworker with agentic superpowers to instantly find any information needed and turn it...
Composer 1.5 Post‑training Uses More Compute than Pre‑training
“The compute used in our post-training of Composer 1.5 even surpasses the amount used to pretrain the base model.”
2026 AI Agent Deals: Contracts Over Collaboration?
So we added one new AI Agent to our arsenal this week, and it's a great one, even though it's pretty new. Much more to come. And another? In the end, we decided not to deploy it. What happened? It's...
Write SOPs for AI, Not Your Team
You wrote something important. Your team pasted it into AI and asked what you meant. And that bothers you. Here's why. You're writing for people who don't exist. The ones who sit down, read 20 pages, absorb it, and execute...
Self‑Configuring Backend Lets AI Talk Directly to Customers
openclaw might be an interesting new backend primitive: it's a server that configures itself. instead of wrapping chatgpt to build your product, can your AI just interface with your customers directly?
Upcoming Events for Founders & Investors
Three upcoming events worth checking out for anyone building or investing: 🤖 Lead Your Team With AI - February 24, virtual A practical session on how founders can effectively use AI to lead their teams. Featuring Doug Peete, CPO at https://t.co/Wcl0Ro2nMv 🤝...
Ohio Bill Declares AI Nonsentient, Emphasizes Human Accountability
Kudos to Ohio for the potential for a bill to declare AI systems nonsentient. Not a big fan of using the term Apartheid in any way in reference to the bill, however as you can't deny rights to non sentient...
Pulse Slashes Research Time From Hours to Minutes
BIG NEWS: I just launched Pulse. The world's first news reader that cuts research from 2 hours to 5 mins👇
Pulse Cuts Tech Research From Hours to Minutes
BIG NEWS: I just launched Pulse. The world's first news reader that cuts research from 2 hours to 5 mins👇 As a founder, I was drowning in information: • Scrolling Twitter for hours • Checking 20+ sites for tech news...
Teach Humans to Thrive When AI Handles Tech
Everyone's worried about training AI. The real problem? Training humans for a world where AI does all the technical work. What do you even teach them?
AI Search Citations Shift: ChatGPT Down, Gemini Up
You can also use @ahrefs Brand Radar to look at specific URLs that have lost SEO visibility - in this case, 2 specific self-promoting listicle URLs - to see the change in AI search citations to the page AIO/ChatGPT/Copilot citations also...
AI Adoption Requires Leadership, Not Just Employee Compliance
A corporate position that workers should "just use AI to do stuff" has never been enough. AI use in companies is a leadership problem that involves answering fundamental questions about what people should do with their time, how work is...
AI Tools Remove Data Barriers, Driving Explosive Growth
I now constantly get questions about the SAAS meltdown, role of AI, system of records etc. I don't have an answer to all these. But I do know that we saw an acceleration in our business in Q2, Q3, and...
AI‑First, Word‑of‑Mouth, Personal Brand: SaaS Survival 2026
It's 2026. If you're a SaaS founder, you're probably screwed. Anything you do that works gets copied, CAC is up, LTV is down. Here are the 7 things I see that ARE working - in a world where most things...
Orchestrate Multiple AIs, Don’t Choose Just One
ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude vs Grok vs Perplexity — different tools, different strengths. There’s no single “best AI”, only the right AI for the job: ChatGPT → creative work, coding, problem-solving, versatile workflows Gemini → deep integration with Google...
New Tech, Data, AI Roles Shaping the Last Five Years
Job titles that have emerged in Tech, Data and AI the last 5 years: 👇
AI-Driven Monday Metrics Reveal Hidden Growth Patterns
Every Monday I get a deep AI analysis of our metrics across every product area to enjoy with my coffee. Anomalies, growth, trends, recommendations. AI spots patterns human analysts easily miss. I can @ the agent for further questions. AI will soon...
Everyone's a Developer Thanks to Autonomous Agent Swarms
🚨 @AnthropicAI just released their 2026 Agentic Coding Trends Verdict → Everyone has become a developer. We moved from single assistants to autonomous agent swarms. They now form teams, work days on full systems, and let non-techies ship full apps 💥 18-page report in...
AI Hype Fades: Embedded Intelligence Outpaces Empty Promises
Today's Operator Links: https://t.co/4GH6Pi68dj 1️⃣ Software's First Act Is Over - @MarcJBrooker 2️⃣ Embedded Intelligence Beats Frontier Models - @om 3️⃣ AI Fatigue Is Real and Nobody Talks About It - @siddhant_K_code 4️⃣ The AI Bubble I Live In (And You Probably Don't) - @joozio 5️⃣...
AI Agents Let One Operator Replace Entire Growth Team
Jacob Bank runs Relay.app (growing 300%+ YoY) with a few employees and hundreds of AI agents. Most SaaS teams think Product-Led Growth requires: – a full growth squad – endless experiments – complex tooling – months of setup That used...
AI Success Mirrors Sports: Master Fundamentals Daily
Most AI programmes fail for the same reason sports teams lose: weak fundamentals. 🏅 In this video, I share 6 lessons from elite sport that make AI adoption work when it moves from pilot to daily workflow: 1️⃣ Clear roles...
Banks' AI Strategies Miss the Mark, Says Speaker
Excited to be speaking at the NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum in March. I'll explore why many financial institutions are missing the mark in my keynote 'Your Bank’s AI Strategy Is Wrong.' To register and access the full agenda: https://t.co/XIQySs0LfD @qubevents https://t.co/kTlwtWVXVs
