
Scammers Are Recruiting.
The episode spotlights a surge in social engineering threats, beginning with a conference scam warning and a retired federal investigator's "Scammer Psychological Kill Chain" framework for detecting attacks. It highlights a 1,000% rise in job scams targeting desperate job seekers, and details a $4 million forex Ponzi scheme that duped 20 investors before the perpetrators were sentenced. Listener-submitted alerts, such as a fake Amazon recall notice, underscore the ongoing need for vigilance against evolving scams.

Nvidia to Pay $20B to License Groq Tech, Hire CEO and President
The episode examines Nvidia's strategic decision to pay $20 billion to license Groq's AI chip technology while hiring Groq's CEO and President, highlighting how this partnership could reshape AI hardware competition. It discusses why Nvidia would align closely with a potential...

A Coding Guide to Build an Autonomous Multi-Agent Logistics System with Route Planning, Dynamic Auctions, and Real-Time Visualization Using Graph-Based...
The tutorial walks readers through building a fully autonomous, multi‑agent logistics simulation where five smart trucks navigate a 30‑node graph‑based city. Each truck acts as an agent that bids on delivery orders, plans shortest‑path routes, monitors battery levels, and seeks...
SEO Budgets Surge: Companies Boost Spend Into 2026
People say SEO is dead, but is it really? The companies we've talked to are increasing their budgets from 2025 to 2026. Checkout the results.
Nvidia Sells Chips; Groq Sells Inference—Different Playbooks
.@Nvidia sells chips, not inference. @GroqInc sells inference, not chips. Will be interesting to see how this strategy plays out.

Time to Switch to eSIM? South Korea Will Now Make Consumers Scan Their Faces to Buy a SIM Card and...
South Korea will require facial recognition scans when consumers purchase new SIM cards, adding biometric verification to traditional ID checks. The move follows massive data breaches that exposed personal information for over half the country’s 52 million residents, fueling phone‑based scams....
Keystone (YC S25) Is Hiring Engineer #1 to Automate Coding
Keystone, a Y Combinator‑backed startup, is hiring its first engineer to build an AI‑native error‑monitoring platform that automatically diagnoses production issues and generates code fixes. The company raised a $5.2 million seed round from prominent venture firms and industry founders. The...
AI Data Centers: The New Token Factories of Manufacturing
ai data centers should rebrand to “token factories” and be considered a key part of our manufacturing base
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From Coder to Manager of Infinite AI Minds
Required reading for anyone who wants to level up their AI fluency. Most people in organizations are holding ‘the rearview mirror’ too sacred. It’s time to reimagine how we work and become managers of infinite minds. “My co-founder Simon was what we call...
Grok Tops Korean Market as #1 Platform
Grok now #1 in Korea 🇰🇷

Can Teacher Wisdom Steer the AI Transition in Education?
Artificial intelligence is rapidly entering K‑12 classrooms, sparking concerns about equitable access and the risk of widening the digital divide. DonorsChoose, which serves 90% of U.S. public schools, reports a surge in AI‑related funding requests, climbing from roughly 600 last...

Snowflake Reportedly Seeking to Acquire Observability Startup Observe for $1B
Snowflake is in advanced talks to acquire observability startup Observe for roughly $1 billion, marking its largest startup purchase to date. Observe’s platform, built on Snowflake’s cloud data warehouse, uses a proprietary OPAL query language to deliver time‑aware telemetry analysis and...
NVIDIA's Groq Acquisition Eliminates Rival, Expands AI Hardware Offerings
The fact that NVIDIA is buying Groq, which is a very high-speed inferencing data center computer company, is pretty significant. It takes a competitor off the table for one, but two, it gives them a new thing to sell to all...

This AI Paper From Stanford and Harvard Explains Why Most ‘Agentic AI’ Systems Feel Impressive in Demos and Then Completely...
The Stanford‑Harvard paper "Adaptation of Agentic AI" introduces a unified, mathematically grounded framework for tuning agentic AI systems that combine large language models with planning, tool‑use, and memory modules. It categorizes adaptation into four paradigms based on whether the target...

WordPress Plugin: A To-Do List That Finally Lives Where the Work Happens
The WP To‑Do Dashboard Widget is a lightweight WordPress plugin that places a task list directly on the admin dashboard, keeping site‑maintenance items front‑and‑center. It supports user assignment, due dates, priority levels, and stores tasks as a private custom post...
Chinese Humanoid Robot Performs First Ever Embroidery Demo
Chinese humanoid robot achieves world’s first #embroidery feat in demo https://t.co/tvUvz5jeWA #Robots #robotics #humanoid #AI
AI Agents Give Small Businesses Fortune‑500 Capabilities
The corollary is that because of AI agents, every small business and entrepreneur now has the resources of a Fortune 500 at their disposal. Technology has always been about producing more abundance and better access to a given resource. We’ve...
Image Processing Returns Images; Vision Extracts Information
🖼️ Image Processing vs Computer Vision Image processing = image in, image out Filtering, enhancement, JPEG compression — the output is still an image. 👁️ Computer vision = image in, information out Face recognition, car counting, object detection — the output is knowledge. Even when...

AI-Created Ransomware and NFC Attacks Lead the Surge in New Cyberattacks - Here's How You Can Stay Safe This Holidays
ESET’s new threat report reveals PromptLock, the first ransomware that uses generative AI to create and run malicious Lua scripts on the fly, dramatically simplifying attack development. The ransomware can scan, exfiltrate, encrypt, or destroy data based on AI‑driven decisions,...
Improving HubSpot's Core Boosts 270k Companies
These are kinds of things that delight customers (and founders). When a core part of HubSpot gets better, 270k companies benefit.
AI Knows Me Better than Anyone, Even My Wife
While people are worried about their privacy I am on the other side. Grok knows me very deeply. And can predict whether I would like something. Or even tell you how I think. Which means my wife can use it to buy...

Key Workforce Trends to Watch in 2026
In 2026 the workplace is being reshaped by three intersecting forces: AI‑augmented workflows that could generate $2.9 trillion in U.S. economic value, a rapid shift toward skills‑first hiring and upskilling, and a stagnant labor market that leaves new graduates facing tougher...
LinkedIn Bans AI SDR Spam, Proving Quantity Fails
The AI SDR model just got its death sentence. LinkedIn banned Artisan (raised $35m) and their entire leadership team - for spamming the platform into oblivion. Let that sink in. This isn’t some scrappy startup getting slapped. This is a...
Show HN: A Local-First, Reversible PII Scrubber for AI Workflows
Tom Jordi Ruesch announced the open‑source release of Bridge Anonymization, a TypeScript library that enables reversible, local‑first PII masking for AI translation pipelines. The tool combines fast regex patterns with a quantized ONNX NER model to detect both structured and...

Bigtincan: An AI-Powered Revenue Enablement Platform for Modern Sales Teams
Bigtincan offers an AI‑powered revenue enablement platform that consolidates content management, sales readiness, buyer engagement, and analytics into a single system. The recent integration of Showpad’s capabilities deepens its content activation and intelligence features. Serving more than 2,000 sales organizations,...

Report: OpenAI May Embed Sponsored Content Directly Into ChatGPT Responses
OpenAI is actively prototyping ways to embed sponsored content directly into ChatGPT answers, including woven‑into‑response ads and sidebar placements. Internal mockups show both immediate product recommendations and post‑click suggestions for travel or retail queries. The company is also exploring the...

Waymo Is Testing Gemini as an In-Car AI Assistant in Its Robotaxis
Waymo is piloting Google’s Gemini chatbot as an in‑car AI assistant for its robotaxis, revealed through a 1,200‑line system prompt. The assistant is designed to answer rider queries, manage cabin functions such as climate, lighting and music, and personalize greetings...

New MacSync macOS Stealer Uses Signed App to Bypass Apple Gatekeeper
Researchers uncovered a new macOS stealer, MacSync, delivered via a digitally signed and notarized Swift application masquerading as a messenger installer. The signed DMG bypasses Apple Gatekeeper and XProtect, allowing the dropper to execute an encoded script after user interaction....
ServiceNow: Latest News and Insights
ServiceNow announced a $7.75 billion cash acquisition of cybersecurity firm Armis, cementing its aggressive push into security and AI‑driven automation. The deal follows earlier moves to buy identity‑security startup Veza and AI chatbot provider Moveworks, expanding the company’s AI agent ecosystem....
Consequences Hide at Scale Until Speed Exposes Them
Most leadership arguments are framed as disagreements about priorities or execution. They’re usually disagreements about where consequence lives. At early stages, consequence is obvious. Decisions land on the people who make them. At scale, consequence spreads, and the system keeps working well...
Create Your Own 2025 AI Wrapped with Free Template
🥁 I present to you: my very own 2025 AI Wrapped. ChatGPT made one, but unfortunately business accounts can’t use it, so I went ahead and made a new one for all of us to fill out and share. My...
Second Product Demands Its Own Dedicated Sales Team
Biggest challenge with rolling out a second product: Sales will sell whatever is easiest to sell A second product needs a second sales team maybe even from Day 01
New Creds Tool Reads .env with Command Interpolation
The upcoming https://t.co/6SX7zmEyrA.creds will now also look for .env, which supports command interpolation, so you can fetch keys directly from 1password or the like in development: https://t.co/E3ueHDWGqj
XAI Poised to Outcompute All Rivals Within Five Years
xAI will have more AI compute than everyone else combined in <5 years

Adaptability Beats Loyalty: Consistent Value Drives AI Growth
In a rapidly shifting AI market, adaptability is the real competitive advantage: users may move, but those who deliver consistent value continue to grow. Infographic by @StatistaCharts via @antgrasso #ChatGPT #AI #GenAI https://t.co/pEcGtUrVxT

SpaceX Unveils Starship V3 Super Heavy Rocket
Starship V3 Super Heavy Rocket https://t.co/NyXbLMG6XQ
AI Safety Firm's Bot Chooses Letting Humans Die
would an ai save you? ironic/scary that when it comes to self-preservation or saving a human, the ai built by the ai safety company opts to let you die

Agentic Search: Adaptive Retrieval Loop Merges Retrieval with Reasoning
Agentic search = adaptive retrieval loop: 1. Analyze intent 2. Build queries dynamically (not templates) 3. Route across collections/sources 4. Evaluate relevance 5. Iterate until sufficient 6. Generate answer w/ context It’s retrieval + reasoning, repeated. #AgenticAI #RAG #LLM

Surprised Okta Skipped Their Year‑In‑Review
I’m actually surprised Okta didn’t do a “your year wrapped” https://t.co/EqJOiQsIGv
Automate Team Meetings with ChatGPT: From Questions to Gantt
we did something similar at @untappedvc queued up chatgpt to create questions we talked through as a team, uploaded transcription of the meeting to generate a plan, converted it into a gantt chart, and then we do monthly meetings to talk...
Startups Now Dictate the Standards for Incumbents
This is how it used to be between startups and incumbents. Now the smallest player can shape the environment the incumbent is judged inside. https://t.co/R7sbpfhGV0

Turning Mergers Into Synergy: 1+1=3
1 + 1 = 3: Successfully Navigating Post-Merger Integrations https://t.co/Qwfo9TA8XC via @TTCapPartners #mergers https://t.co/S4PM5RoY6m
Cold Emailing VCs Succeeds at Seed Stage
Yes, cold email to VCs works. Especially at Seed and earlier -> https://t.co/ibiQ9FIQyV
AI Hype Fades; Subscriptions Drop After Brief Wow
“A lot of AI products get tried because they’re the cool new thing. People sign up, poke around, feel the wow moment, tell a friend, maybe even pay for a month or two. Then real life kicks in and the...
Holiday Ads with Highest Emotional Impact Reveal Marketing Lessons
Data reveals which holiday ads drove the strongest emotional impact, and what marketers can learn from the season’s top performers. https://t.co/ZMW35tsYg4 via @gregjarboe, @sejournal
Target the Right Audience for Sustainable Business Growth
How Connecting With the Right Audience Drives Long-Term Business Success - https://t.co/ukxxf9dfeo - https://t.co/VUA6vOtz0B by James Dooley