Leverage AI to 10x Your OKRs!
In this episode Ben critiques the common practice of using AI merely to draft OKRs, warning that it can bypass the crucial conversations that build clarity, ownership, and commitment. He argues that the real value of AI lies in enhancing execution—using it to generate actionable ideas, improve key‑result planning, and accelerate measurable outcomes, as illustrated by a client win and billing gains. By shifting from AI‑driven efficiency to AI‑driven effectiveness, teams can achieve up to ten‑fold improvements in OKR performance.
Speed, Not Scale, Drives AI Agent Advantage
OpenClaw proved that one person can out-ship billion-dollar labs on agents. What does that say about where the competitive advantage actually is?
The Evolution of the US Floating Solar Industry
AccuSolar, a Florida firm spun out of the family‑owned AccuDock, is driving a 391‑megawatt floating solar project in Texas, the largest of its kind in the United States. The company’s roots trace back to the nation’s first floatovoltaic installation in...
How One of Africa’s Fastest Growing AI Platforms Was Built Out of Ethiopia
Ethiopian‑born startup Gebeya has launched Dala, an AI‑powered no‑code app builder, and amassed 85,000 users within four months. The platform boasts an 8% paying‑customer rate, far above the typical 3% conversion for AI products, thanks to mobile‑first design and local...
How AI, Automation and Services Drive Synnex’s Value Vision
Australian IT distributor Synnex has opened a $150 million, AI‑enabled logistics centre in Melbourne, marking a shift from traditional distribution to a platform‑focused model. The new facility incorporates advanced automation, improving speed, safety and scalability while supporting a broader suite of...
HTML Comments Reveal Vendor’s Intentional Export Method Distinction
Your human users might only read the visible content in your page, but bots read the HTML comments :-) I appreciated this nugget from my EHI Export analysis, and I have to say that I agree with "kendra/sli", they had...
Amazon’s New Image Policy: Platform Can Now Replace Your Product Photos
The episode breaks down Amazon’s 2026 product image policy, which now allows the platform to replace seller photos—including brand‑registered listings—if they don’t meet stricter standards. It outlines the exact technical requirements (white background, 1600+ px, 85‑100% product fill, etc.), the red‑flags...
Hourglass Launches DTC Channel In Australia & New Zealand
Hourglass has launched its first direct‑to‑consumer website, hourglasscosmetics.com.au, targeting Australia and New Zealand. The rollout includes free standard shipping for the first month, a 10% welcome discount, and complimentary gifts for orders over $120 and $150. The DTC channel runs alongside...
OpenClaw Could Be 1st 1-Person $1B Company, OpenAI Buys
The episode examines OpenClaw's potential to become the first one‑person, billion‑dollar company, analyzing its AI‑driven product suite, lean operational model, and market traction. It weighs the plausibility of such rapid scaling against typical growth constraints and highlights the founder’s unique...
This Company Has Built a Backpack-Style System for Robotics Data Collection
Lumos, a robotics startup founded in September 2024, unveiled FastUMI Pro, a backpack‑mounted universal manipulation interface designed to accelerate embodied AI data collection. The company aims to deploy 10,000 units across six real‑world environments by 2026, targeting one million hours...
India Will Shape Global AI Governance, Says ElevenLabs’ Head of Global Affairs Alex Haskell
ElevenLabs is leveraging India as a large‑scale testing ground for its generative voice‑AI, with e‑commerce platform Meesho routing roughly 60,000 calls a day through the technology. The linguistic mix of English‑Hindi code‑switching in tier‑2 and tier‑3 cities has driven new...
Countdown to SBS Media Sustainability Challenge with $500k Free Advertising Inventory up for Grabs – Applications Close 5pm AEDT, March...
The 2026 SBS Media Sustainability Challenge invites brands and agencies to compete for $500,000 in free advertising inventory. Applications close at 5 pm AEDT on March 6, and entrants must submit a 30‑second TV script plus a 500‑word rationale. The competition focuses...
Montana Hospital Restores Phones as Cyber-Related Network Disruptions Persist
Livingston HealthCare in Montana announced that its phone system has been fully restored after a recent cybersecurity incident forced the hospital to shut down communications and other network services. The disruption, first reported on Feb. 13, stemmed from a potential...
Retail Expansion Drives Record Earnings for Baby Bunting
Baby Bunting posted record half‑year sales of $271.4 million, a 4.9% increase year‑on‑year, driven by a mix of new large‑format stores, small‑format openings, and six "store of the future" refurbishments. Online sales climbed to 24.8% of total revenue, up 18%, reflecting...
AI Agent Security Becomes the Next Adoption Bottleneck
The power of AI agents comes from: 1. intelligence of the underlying model 2. how much access you give it to all your data 3. how much freedom & power you give it to act on your behalf I think...
Bharat-VISTAAR Launches Today- All About the AI Tool to Help Farmers via a Simple Phone Call
Bharat‑VISTAAR, a multilingual AI tool for Indian agriculture, launches on February 17, offering farmers real‑time advice through a simple phone call. The platform integrates government‑run AgriStack portals and ICAR best‑practice repositories, delivering region‑specific recommendations without requiring internet access. By combining weather...
Drive’s Latest Campaign Shows Car-Buying As Easy As Ordering From Drive-Thru
Drive has launched a multi‑million‑dollar "Drive‑thru" campaign during Nine’s broadcast of the 2026 Olympic Winter Games, positioning car buying as simple as ordering food at a drive‑thru. Created by the Not Bad Pretty Good studio, the ads use a relatable...
Holodeck Reality Emerging Fast Across Five Tech Layers
The Holodeck Report. I fed @blevlabs the book @IrenaCronin and I wrote "The Infinite Retina" and asked it to analyze X for what's happening right now when it comes to AI-driven 3D environments and things and it spit out this...
Bajaj Broking Makes Investing Simple for Indians with ‘Seedhi Simple Investing’ Campaign
Bajaj Broking rolled out the "Seedhi Simple Investing" campaign during the T20 World Cup, positioning its platform as an easy‑to‑use solution for Indian investors. The ads use everyday confusion—like unclear washroom signs or lift buttons—to illustrate how the Bajaj app...
Delta Gold Technologies and Penn State Partner on Scalable Gold-Based Quantum Materials Research
Delta Gold Technologies has entered a three‑year research sponsorship and exclusive licensing deal with Penn State University to develop gold‑nanocluster quantum materials. The collaboration, also involving the University of Toronto, demonstrates tunable spin polarization ranging from 7 % to 40 % and...
Light-Matter Coupling Creates New Quasiparticles for Advanced Physics Exploration
Researchers have demonstrated strong coupling of electrically tunable dipolar excitons in a gated bilayer MoS₂ device integrated with a one‑dimensional photonic crystal. The hybrid system creates composite polariton quasiparticles, with three distinct polariton branches observed as the applied electric field...
Netflix Drops Older TVs; Cheap Roku and Fire Sticks Available
Netflix is about to stop working on some more older smart TVs and consoles — but handily, you can get a Roku or Fire TV Stick super-cheap right now https://www.techradar.com/televisions/streaming-devices/netflix-is-about-to-stop-working-on-some-more-older-smart-tvs-and-consoles-but-handily-you-can-get-a-roku-or-fire-tv-stick-super-cheap-right-now
HMRC Offers Nudge Tool via MTD Software as Providers Cite ‘Need to Educate Customers’
HMRC has introduced the Assist nudge tool within the Making Tax Digital (MTD) Income Tax Self‑Assessment beta, delivering data‑driven reminders through accredited software. A recent trial of similar nudges generated an extra £27 million in revenue, and the department plans to...
Ogilvy Malaysia + Scentify Launch Xiaohongshu CNY Drama ‘Fabric Scented, Fortune Granted’
Ogilvy Malaysia partnered with home fragrance brand Scentify to launch a Chinese New Year drama series on Xiaohongshu called “Fabric Scented, Fortune Granted.” The episodic social drama promotes Scentify’s new Golden Breeze scent as the “lucky scent of the year,”...
FOI Is Arming Cyberattackers – Here Is How to Fix It
Freedom of Information (FOI) requests on cybersecurity governance are exposing a stark inconsistency in public‑sector disclosures. Large NHS trusts and other big bodies tend to refuse or invoke national‑security exemptions, while smaller organisations often provide granular details. This uneven approach...
Treasury Chief: ‘AI Can Relieve Staff of Lower-Value Work’
HM Treasury senior official Beth Russell told the Treasury Committee that the department is actively deploying artificial intelligence to handle routine administrative tasks and support policy work. The Treasury has introduced an HR chatbot, is piloting Microsoft Copilot with 25%...
ITC Infotech Opens APAC HQ, Digital and AI Hub in Melbourne
ITC Infotech opened its Asia‑Pacific headquarters and digital‑AI hub in Melbourne, the fourth such centre globally. The hub targets sectors including consumer‑packaged goods, retail, manufacturing, banking and especially agriculture, aligning with Victoria’s $20 billion agri‑economy. ITC plans to hire about 150...
New Materials Exhibit Superconductivity After Surface Functionalisation with Common Elements
A first‑principles screening of 128 out‑of‑plane ordered double‑transition‑metal MXenes identified 32 compounds that are mechanically, dynamically and thermodynamically stable and predicted to be superconductors. Transition temperatures range from 0.1 K to a record 52 K, with Mo₂ScN₂O₂ delivering the highest T₍c₎ and...
AI Is Getting Scary Good at Making Predictions
Artificial intelligence has surged up the ranks of elite forecasting tournaments, moving from obscurity in 2024 to challenging top human forecasters. These contests span geopolitics, economics, and pop culture, measuring pure predictive skill rather than domain expertise. Simultaneously, AI is...
Hunting Cosmic Ghosts From the Edge of Space
University of Chicago’s PUEO experiment launched from Antarctica on Dec 20, 2024, spending 23 days at 120,000 feet searching for ultra‑high‑energy neutrinos. The payload carried 96 radio antennas and a sophisticated onboard processor to capture faint radio bursts generated when...
Multiple Bidders Boost Leverage, Valuation, and Deal Success
A competitive sales process includes multiple buyers bidding against each other, each investing considerable time and resources to win the bid. This competition increases: * Your negotiating leverage * Your valuation * Your probability of a closed deal #founders #pathtoexit
Regressive Mandates Undermine Climate Resilience, Not Protect It
During today’s nonstop rain, California’s “fight” against climate danger has featured mandated solar panels that produce no electricity and mandated paper bags that can’t carry groceries. “Fighting” climate via forced technological regression just makes us more vulnerable to it.
MECCHA Sets Up Pre-Orders for Japan Exclusives with Worldwide Shipping
MECCHA Japan has launched a pre‑order service that lets international fans purchase exclusive Japanese anime figures, trading‑card boosters, and themed merchandise with worldwide shipping. The catalog includes high‑profile items such as a 45 cm Monkey D. Luffy statue, a Final Fantasy VIII musical box,...
Plasmid Injection Triggers Immune Attack on Cancer Survival Protein
What if a physician could inject you with a plasmid that would induce an immune response against a protein needed for cancer cell survival? This novel strategy is being tested and looks promising for refractory cancers. Talking Biotech 488 ...
Google Confirms Android Downloads Backup Feature
Google confirms new Downloads backup feature for Android that I spotted first back in August 2025 https://t.co/zX3HyBV3TK
Ireland Launches ‘Large-Scale Inquiry’ Into Musk’s AI Bot Grok
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has opened a large‑scale GDPR inquiry into Elon Musk’s X over its AI tool Grok, which has been linked to a surge of sexualized deepfakes, including images of minors. Regulators estimate Grok produced three million non‑consensual...
Instantly Compare Mall Prices to Amazon Deals
Why do you need this? So you can look at something in a mall and it will tell you “that is cheaper on Amazon.”
Asian Markets Split: AI Surge vs Old‑Economy Shift Ahead
Asian equity markets are diverging into two camps: AI capex beneficiaries in East Asia and "old economy" companies in Southeast Asia. There will be an inflection point where the former peaks, and flows move towards the latter. But when?
DShanPi-A1 AI Education Rockchip RK3576 SBC Features HDMI Input and Output Ports, Dual GbE
The DShanPi‑A1 AI Education SBC is built around Rockchip’s RK3576 octa‑core Cortex‑A72/A53 SoC and can be configured with up to 8 GB RAM and 64 GB eMMC storage. It offers HDMI 2.1 video output, a mini‑HDMI input, dual Gigabit Ethernet, MIPI DSI/CSI interfaces,...
Strategy Cards Ignite Collaborative Team Planning
🤝 Looking for tools that support team conversations around planning? 🧠 I share how my new Strategy Cards can spark collaboration in this episode. 🎧 Listen to episode 356 to hear the ideas in action. https://t.co/RsinuUdLlP
U.S. Unready for Potential GPS Attack, Warns Former NSA Chief
"America is dangerously unprepared for a GPS attack," Adm. Michael Rogers, U.S. Navy (ret.), former commander of the U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency. https://t.co/hYWXOZoxEZ
WTF Is N8n, and How Do I Use It for Sales?
n8n is a fair‑code, self‑hosted workflow automation platform that lets sales teams replace per‑task pricing models like Zapier with unlimited actions. Its visual node‑based editor supports branching, loops, and advanced error handling, enabling complex lead‑routing and CRM upsert workflows. By...
AI Video Is Set to Reshape Hollywood's Future
I remember when I was posting AI video threads 2 years ago and talking about how AI video would disrupt Hollywood. So many people couldn’t see beyond the early versions. And still, people probably see this and aren’t realizing what comes...
Claude Opus 4.6 Now Available in GitLab Duo Agent Platform
GitLab has added Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 to its Duo Agent Platform, giving users a model with a 1 million‑token context window and heightened agency. The model can ingest entire codebases, documentation, and pipeline data in a single interaction, enabling more comprehensive...
From Random Chunks to Real Code — Wiring up Next.js Source Maps in Sentry
The guide walks through how Next.js transforms React/TypeScript into minified, chunked bundles that obscure stack traces, and shows how to configure Sentry to upload matching source maps and debug IDs during the production build. It explains why development tools display...
Exploring the Impact of Cognitive Profiles on the Response to Magnetic Seizure Therapy and Electroconvulsive Therapy
An open‑label, non‑randomized trial compared magnetic seizure therapy (MST) and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in 398 patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) or schizophrenia (SCZ). Both modalities produced comparable symptom reductions, but MST yielded faster re‑orientation and less decline in processing...
Introducing Red Hat Build of Podman Desktop: Enterprise-Ready Local Container Development Environments
Red Hat has announced the general availability of its own build of Podman Desktop, delivering an enterprise‑grade, secure‑by‑design local container development environment. The offering bridges the long‑standing gap between developers’ laptops and hardened OpenShift clusters, leveraging the same trusted RHEL components....
Redefining Automation Governance: From Execution to Observability at Bradesco
Bradesco, one of Brazil’s largest banks, has moved its automation strategy from pure execution to a governance‑focused observability model using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. The platform’s open APIs now feed execution data into enterprise‑wide dashboards, linking automation metrics with ITSM...
How to Use Close Forms with Workflows (and Never Miss a Lead Again)
Close’s native Forms and Workflow tools let inbound teams capture a prospect’s information and instantly trigger a series of automated actions. When a form is submitted, a lead is created or updated in the CRM, assigned to an owner, set...
Protective Mutations Associated with APOE in Alzheimer’s Disease
Recent research has identified several rare APOE mutations that confer protection against Alzheimer’s disease, including the R136S variant, the APOE3‑Christchurch (R136S) allele, loss‑of‑function CASP7, and missense changes V236E and R251G. These variants mitigate tau pathology, improve amyloid clearance, and dampen...
