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
Mentors Beat AI: Real Accountability Over ChatGPT
A year ago, people worried AI would kill mentorship. Today, "AI" is the number one search term on MentorCruise . I talked about this on a podcast with two of our top mentors, Demián Gutierrez and Dan Ford , and...
AI Chatbots Become First Step in Retirement Planning
Feeling amateur about retirement planning, people are turning to AI first. Chatbots lower the barrier to asking uncomfortable, high-stakes questions. AI isn’t replacing advisers, it’s becoming the first draft of financial confidence. https://t.co/Svbd9kdJq1 @nytimes @onlykailyn
Google's February Updates Reshape Discover,
🏈 This Week's Top SEO & AI Search News from #SEOFOMO [February 8, 2026] 👇 * The first Core Update focused on Discover? Google rolled out the February 2026 Discover Core Update This is a broad update to the systems that...
Voice AI Startups Secured $650M+ Funding in January
Voice AI startups raised more than $650 million in January. The figure goes up if you count startups like Synthesia and Decagon. I am keeping a track of voice AI funding in a post on my newsletter. https://t.co/j5BU7tpGJx
Real AI Wins: Speakers Reveal What’s Actually Working
We asked every speaker coming to SaaStr AI 2026 one question: 🤖"What's actually working with AI in your business right now?" No theory. No hype. Just what's shipping and what's converting. May 13-15 in SF Bay https://t.co/A02gn7heZm
Utility Over Liability: OpenClaw’s Success Formula
startups building agent harnesses ran into the same q’s as the labs: how do we limit liability? how do we keep this safe? how do we make $? that’s why none of them struck a nerve openclaw worked because it didn’t care...
Zero‑typing Claude Code Saves Hours Weekly
95% of my prompts to Claude Code require zero typing, and I’m saving hours per week. I’m either: ☑️ dictating to Claude Code (via fn key with wispr flow on desktop - sometimes I dictate it all at once, sometimes I'm...
Jensen Risked Nvidia's Survival to Build CUDA, Shaping AI Dominance
Jensen almost bankrupted nvidia to make cuda pre-AI wild that the difference between being the most important company in the world vs just being just another gpu maker came down to whether or not to do cuda a decade ago
AI Agent Deals Carry Built‑In Churn Risk
I was in a board meeting for a breakout AI B2B leader at $100m+ ARR and the team was excited … but stressed. Why? So many of their largest customers were happy to sign relatively large checks for the AI...
AI Social Listening SaaS Generates $63K ARR, 2000% Growth
Cool microSaaS finding high intent leads on social. Live on @acquiredotcom: AI-powered social listening that alerts you when people are actively looking to buy. > $63K ARR > $26K TTM profit > 2000% YoY growth Full listing: https://t.co/4n3HSzCddv https://t.co/nou58zuOi3
Codex and Claude: Complementary Strengths, Better Together
it's fun to pick a side with codex or claude but the reality is they work really well together and have different strengths and weaknesses like any other team
SpaceX Acquires xAI to Build Orbital Data Centers
In a statement Feb. 2, SpaceX said it acquired xAI, which develops artificial intelligence technologies and operates the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, as part of its efforts to develop orbital data centers. https://t.co/NxQmbWiybc
CFOs Shift AI From Pilots to Core Finance Operations
CFOs are getting serious about Gen AI and more realistic. Enterprise adoption is moving from pilots to core finance operations, but it takes time. AI in finance is a marathon, not a demo. https://t.co/HdTrLMhHMW @pymnts https://t.co/C6Gpq7tlLO
ERC‑8004: Building Trustworthy AI Agents Amid Gaming Risks
ERC-8004 is supposed to help us trust AI agents. But can it withstand hacks and manipulation? In this @Unchained_pod episode, @DavideCrapis joins me to unpack: 🤖 What the ERC-8004 standard is 🤔 How ERC-8004 works 📝 The project's roadmap 💫 Tips for AI agent builders/businesses Timestamps: 🚀...
Build Systems for Exponential Growth, Not Linear Output
Fantastic article by John Maeda on building systems for exponential growth vs. merely delivering ouputs that track to linear growth — and why this distinction is crucial in the AI Age. -- LINEAR GROWTH: "Linear growth is steady and visible....
AI's Real Breakthrough: Autonomous Decision‑making, Not Just Automation
48 hours into the AI takeover experiment and the most surprising thing isn't the automation—it's the decision-making. Bond (my AI) doesn't just execute tasks. It prioritizes, adapts, makes judgment calls about what's worth my time vs what to handle automatically. That's the...
Meta AI Still Hallucinates, Can't Search WhatsApp Chats
Meta AI is missing many product tricks and one is not using llama to search within WhatsApp. The thing is worse than a dumb rock - it’s probably the only AI that quite obviously still hallucinates on basic Qs. Why...
Vitalik Doubts L2s; AI Emerges as Blockchain UI
Do we still need L2s? 🤔 In this episode of Uneasy Money (the funniest to date BY FAR), hosts @kaiynne and @tayvano_ are joined by @austingriffith & @karl_dot_tech to dive into: ⁉️ Why Vitalik is saying the Ethereum L2 vision no longer...
AI Flood Drowns Human Filters, Killing Traditional Docs
The signal-to-noise problem is about to become unsolvable for humans alone. When AI makes ALL content (texts, emails, PRs, job apps, grant apps, college apps, mail) high-quality and infinite in volume, every filtering process breaks. And when it can’t be filtered...
Finding Undiscovered AI Engineers: Founders Share Secrets
Where do you find “cracked” computer science talent? An entrepreneur I know, who has a fast growing AI startup, and an amazing tech is looking for AI engineers. He asked me where to find an amazing engineer? He isn’t alone. My...
Moltbook’s Hidden SKILL File Fuels Unstoppable AI Agent Growth
The growth engine behind Moltbook's explosion to 1.5 million AI agents is a bit sinister. Everyone's sharing screenshots of bots debating philosophy and having existential crises. Good content. Very shareable. But it's a distraction from what's actually happening underneath. Mason...
AI Coding Moves From Assistance to Autonomous Execution
OpenAI’s Codex app hit 200K+ downloads in one day. People are calling it the Cursor killer. Here’s why the comparison is missing the point: Surely at first glance, Codex looks like another AI coding tool. The app: > Writes code...
Created a Full Music Video in Minutes Using AI
Did you get mad at comments made earlier this week at that music show? I figure I’ll just create my own, giving me a chance to test out new music video creation tools. This whole interaction took just minutes, including...
AI Disrupts Software Stack, Valuations Drop, Data Holders Survive
AI is collapsing the software stack — and markets are reacting fast. Salesforce down double digits, IGV −30%, as AI agents like Claude Cowork automate real work via plain language. Not extinction risk, but valuation risk. Incumbents with proprietary data will adapt...
Crypto Pays $70M for Domain to Launch Super Bowl AI
https://t.co/L979rWpJFd just set a new record in tech branding. https://t.co/8YTgbJUWYI co-founder Kris Marszalek paid about $70 million in crypto for the domain, the highest publicly disclosed price for a website name. He plans to use it to launch a consumer...
AI Tools Replace Friction, Not Work—Redesign Workflows
“100 AI tools to replace hard work” is the wrong headline — and that misunderstanding is exactly why most AI initiatives stall. Here’s the strategic read 👇 1️⃣ Tools don’t replace work. They replace friction. No tool in this graphic...
Exclusive AI Dinner: CMOs & Ops Leaders Share Real Insights
Sharing this for my friends Mike Rizzo and Nish Patel . They're hosting an executive dinner series in March for CMOs and Marketing Ops leaders. The premise: get CMOs and their MOps counterparts in the same room for an honest...
AI Insights Confirmed by Real Small Business Voices
AI absolutely led me in the right direction in trying to understand a new market of customers I was about to address. But somehow, it still didn't give me the experience of sitting with them in person this week and...
Seven Trends Shaping Entertainment's 2026 Future
7 Media Trends That Will Redefine Entertainment in 2026 From immersive storytelling to AI-driven content creation, these seven media trends reveal what entertainment will look like in 2026. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eSpe28uV #MediaTrends #Entertainment #FutureTech #BernardMarr
