NSS Applauds New Executive Order Advancing American Space Leadership
The White House issued the *Ensuring American Space Superiority* executive order, reaffirming U.S. leadership across exploration, science, commercial development, and sustainability. It sets a timeline to return humans to the Moon by 2028, build a permanent lunar outpost by 2030, and lay groundwork for Mars missions. The order accelerates the commercial space economy, calls for a commercial replacement of the ISS, and endorses nuclear power systems for lunar and orbital use. It also mandates stronger space traffic management, debris mitigation, and cislunar navigation standards.
December Global Regulatory Brief: Digital Finance
In December 2025, regulators across the UK, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia unveiled coordinated steps to shape digital finance. The FCA emphasized that AI advances must be paired with human judgement and announced a forthcoming consultation on transaction reporting. Singapore’s MAS...
December Global Regulatory Brief: Green Finance
In December 2025 regulators across four jurisdictions unveiled major green‑finance initiatives. South Africa’s Treasury proposed classifying carbon credits as unlisted securities and linking its registry to the UN‑Article 6 framework to scale the domestic market. The European Commission introduced a streamlined...
AI-Authored Bills Threaten Transparency, Concentrate Power
When the AI haters get laws written to regulate AI it probably will be an AI that writes them. Irony of all ironies. At @hf0 in San Francisco I saw a company that does exactly that, and already has been...
December Global Regulatory Brief: Risk, Capital and Financial Stability
The December Global Regulatory Brief highlights four major developments: the UK PRA confirmed Basel 3.1 market‑risk rules will take effect in January 2027 with the Internal Model Approach delayed to January 2028; Australia’s APRA announced a phased removal of Additional Tier 1 capital instruments...
Revive Email Lists with Personal, Status‑Driven Sequences
Email lists die when they don’t get what they need in right now. Your current buyers want to: • Understand what else you offer • Get recognized for buying early • Feel like they’re part of what’s next So here’s...
December Global Regulatory Brief: Trading and Markets
The EU Commission unveiled a sweeping market‑integration package that revamps MiFID‑R, UCITS, EMIR and other rules, introducing a pan‑European market operator and expanding ESMA’s supervisory remit. In the United States, SEC Chair Paul Atkins announced a reform agenda to scale...
AI Strategy Boosts SaaStr Growth From -19% to +47%
From -19% to +47% growth over the course of 2025. Here's how we turned SaaStr's traffic (and SaaStr itself) around in 12 months: 📉Through April 2025, we were down 19% in active users, 22% in views. The slow bleed every B2B...
Gemini vs ChatGPT: Platform Power Trumps Copy Quality
Most marketers think the Gemini vs ChatGPT debate is about which AI writes better copy. It’s not. This is a platform war, not a chatbot comparison—and the decision you make now affects cost, speed, leverage, and long-term growth. In...
RealMan Robotics Launches Next-Generation High-Power-Density Joint Modules for High-Performance Robotics
RealMan Robotics unveiled three next‑generation high‑power‑density joint modules—the ultra‑compact WHJ03, the high‑torque hollow‑core WHJ120, and the wide‑voltage WHJ48V series. Each module delivers a blend of higher torque, reduced size, and broader voltage tolerance, targeting applications from desktop manipulators to heavy‑duty...
AI Boosts PM Output, Not Strategic Thinking
What exactly AI is doing for people, function by function Results from a large-scale AI productivity survey of my 1m+ newsletter subscribers (with @noamseg) 1. PMs are seeing the most value from AI tools to (1) write PRDs, (2) create mockups/prototypes, and...
Opendoor Acquires Mortgage Firm, Hires Dan Green
We’re going to fix homeownership and that includes mortgage. To that end, I’m happy to announce our acquisition of https://t.co/9haOZ3n5dZ. Dan Green is joining Opendoor as Director of Mortgage Growth. Dan founded https://t.co/RaKWs0xGGf, and now he’s bringing that expertise in-house to...
'Fragmented' Microsoft Tools Undercut Efficiency at Amazon and Whole Foods, Internal Deloitte Review Finds
A Deloitte review of Whole Foods’ Microsoft 365 usage uncovered fragmented toolsets, lax security, and a convoluted user‑management system that hinder collaboration with Amazon staff. The report recommends a 24‑month, phased migration that first moves Whole Foods corporate employees onto...
Space Is Booming, and Occasionally Exploding.
The episode examines the rapid growth and volatility of the space sector, highlighting CACI International’s acquisition of ARKA Group to boost space‑based sensing capabilities, and reviewing recent launch mishaps—from the SpaceX Starship explosion that raised FAA aviation safety concerns to...
How Publishers Can Regain Control with an Ad Server
Publishers are confronting shrinking CPMs and thin margins, prompting a shift toward owning their own ad‑server infrastructure. By taking control of the decisioning layer, they gain full visibility into auctions, can set dynamic floor prices, and produce verifiable placement logs....
Industry Continues to Push Back on HIPAA Security Rule Overhaul
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services unveiled a sweeping update to the HIPAA Security Rule in January 2025, aiming to tighten cybersecurity across hospitals and clinics. A coalition of 100 health‑care groups led by CHIME has called for...
Europe's Public Institutions Are Quietly Ditching US Cloud Providers
European public institutions are accelerating migrations away from U.S. cloud and office suites, driven primarily by GDPR‑mandated risk assessments that flag the U.S. CLOUD Act as a data‑security threat. Austria’s Federal Ministry for Economy, Energy and Tourism shifted 1,200 employees...
🎙️ Ep 13: How Stablecoins Scaled Cross-Border Payments to $80B W/ Daniel Vogel (Bitso)
Bitso, the leading Latin American crypto platform, now handles over $80 billion in annualized transaction volume, with roughly 10 % of U.S.–Mexico remittances and the bulk coming from enterprise payment flows. CEO Daniel Vogel explains that stablecoins achieve scale not by cheapening...
'Stingraybot' Uses Microbubble Muscles Controlled by Ultrasound
ETH Zurich researchers unveiled a 4 cm "stingraybot" that swims by flexing silicone membranes embedded with micro‑bubbles, all controlled wirelessly via ultrasound. The micro‑bubble muscles respond within milliseconds, enabling both simple curvature and complex undulatory motions depending on bubble size distribution....
HTTP Caching, a Refresher
The 2022 RFC 9111 update codifies Cache‑Control as the central mechanism for directing browsers, proxy caches, and CDNs on how to store and reuse HTTP responses. It defines freshness calculations via max‑age, s‑maxage, Expires and heuristic methods, and outlines validation using...
Creativity Dies From ROI Obsession, Not AI
I'm taking this to my marketing grave... Creativity won’t die in 2026 because of AI. It will die because we love talking about ROI a little tooooo much. When the first question asked of an idea is how it will...
FIS Agrees to Pay $210M Settlement
Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) agreed to a $210 million settlement with investors alleging misleading statements about its 2019 $35 billion Worldpay acquisition. The deal offers roughly 42 cents per damaged share, reduced to about 32 cents after legal fees and expenses. Executives, including...
MSP Breakfast Showcases Full‑Spectrum Marketing Case Studies
Attended another fantastic MSP Social Media Breakfast last Friday. Mykl Roventine and Jen Roventine always draw a great crowd to these events, especially for case studies. If you're in the Twin Cities and you marketing or PR, I'd highly recommend...
Technology that Helps Robots Read Human Intentions Could Lead to Safer, Smarter, More Trustworthy Machines
Researchers at the University of Manchester’s PRIMI project are teaching robots a rudimentary theory of mind, enabling them to infer human beliefs, preferences, and intentions. By merging motor intelligence with cognitive reasoning, the system aims to anticipate assistance needs and...
AI SaaS Lifts TAM by Cutting Implementation Overhead
Is AI constrained by software TAMs? When people think about the TAM for AI B2B software, a common refrain is "it's so much bigger because AI will automate services and labor." I think this will happen long-term, but it requires a...
Japan’s H3 Rocket Suffers Major Setback in Latest Launch Failure
Japan’s next‑generation H3 launch vehicle suffered a critical failure on Dec. 22, 2025 when its second‑stage engine shut down early, preventing the Michibiki 5 navigation satellite from reaching orbit. The anomaly left the satellite’s whereabouts unknown, effectively delaying the expansion of the Quasi‑Zenith...
Accuracy Isn’t Enough: Reliability Drives AI’s Economic Success
This post by Kushal Chakrabarti opened my eyes to why AI adoption has been so slow, and why I've often sided with the naysayers: "Accuracy is hitting the bullseye on average but reliability is hitting the same spot repeatably. You...
Transformers Need Internal Scratchpad for Sequential Reasoning
The Transformer architecture is fundamentally a parallel processor of context, but reasoning is a sequential, iterative process. To solve complex problems, a model needs a "scratchpad" not just in its output CoT, but in its internal state. A differentiable way to...
How to Build a Proactive Pre-Emptive Churn Prevention Agent with Intelligent Observation and Strategy Formation
The tutorial walks through building a Pre‑Emptive Churn Prevention Agent that automatically spots inactive users, evaluates their churn risk, and drafts personalized re‑engagement emails using Google Gemini. It creates a mock customer database, defines a risk‑analysis prompt, and generates incentive‑driven...
Standardize PIPs to Preserve Culture While Removing Underperformers
As founders enter the scale stage, there is a lot of talk about on-boarding talent, but very little talk about off-boarding talent. When scaling a sales team, if you get the new hires right 90% of the time, you are...
AI Boosts Tech Workers' Productivity, Saves Half-Day Weekly
Is AI delivering real productivity gains? What's the ROI so far? Hot takes abound, but data have been scarce. Noam Segal and I took it upon ourselves to find out what’s actually happening on the ground by running one of...
Sprawling 'Operation Sentinel' Neutralizes African Cybercrime Syndicates
Operation Sentinel, a 19‑nation Interpol‑led effort, dismantled multiple African cybercrime syndicates, arresting 574 suspects and seizing roughly $3 million in assets. The investigation neutralized over 6,000 malicious links and decrypted six ransomware strains, uncovering $21 million in losses from BEC, extortion and...
Gemini vs ChatGPT: Platform War Drives Growth Advantage
Most marketers think the Gemini vs ChatGPT debate is about which AI writes better copy. It’s not. This is a platform war, not a chatbot comparison—and the decision you make now affects cost, speed, leverage, and long-term growth. In this...
US Insurance Giant Aflac Says Hackers Stole Personal and Health Data of 22.6 Million People
Aflac announced that hackers accessed personal and health information of 22.65 million customers, including Social Security numbers, medical records, and government IDs. The breach, disclosed in June, is linked to the Scattered Spider cyber‑criminal collective, which has been targeting insurers. Aflac’s...
Meta Is Using the Linux Scheduler Designed for Valve's Steam Deck on Its Servers
Meta engineers revealed that they have adopted the SCX‑LAVD Linux scheduler, originally created for Valve’s Steam Deck handheld, as the default scheduler for their large‑scale server fleet. The scheduler, developed by Igalia, delivers latency‑aware virtual deadline scheduling and matches or exceeds...
Felony Charges Against 3 in Utah Related to Stem Cells, Undercover Agents Visited Clinic
Utah authorities have filed felony charges against Dr. Paul William Winterton, Randall Matthew Relyea, and Jenny Astrid Fraizer for a pattern of unlawful activity at the Precision Pointe Regenerative Health clinic. The indictments include second‑degree felonies for communications fraud, third‑degree...
Democratic AGs Sue Trump Administration over CFPB Funding
Nearly two dozen Democratic state attorneys general, led by New York AG Letitia James, have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding shutdown. Acting CFPB Director Russ Vought refused to request money from...
Consuming News From AI Shifts Our Opinions and Reality. Here’s How
Meta's decision to end its professional fact‑checking program sparked criticism over trust and reliability. Meanwhile, AI large language models are increasingly used to generate news summaries, headlines, and content across platforms. New research reveals these models exhibit communication bias and...
From Reactive to Predictive: The Future of Embedded Accounting
The fintech sector is shifting small‑business finance from reactive bookkeeping to embedded accounting, where the ledger lives inside everyday banking apps. By linking real‑time transaction data with accounting platforms, solutions like the Xero‑Bluevine partnership give owners a unified dashboard and...
Redefining AI Leadership in Healthcare and High-Stakes Industries
Ali Altaf is steering AI adoption in U.S. healthcare by embedding governance, explainability, and compliance into enterprise‑scale platforms. His work tackles the $1 trillion annual administrative waste and rising cyber threats that consume 25‑30% of hospital budgets. Platforms like CrediSync automate...
Zhipu AI Challenges Western Rivals with Low-Cost GLM-4.7
Zhipu AI unveiled GLM-4.7, a large language model tuned for autonomous programming and "vibe coding" website creation. The model introduces Preserved Thinking to maintain reasoning across extended dialogs and builds on Interleaved Thinking from GLM-4.5. It achieved a 73.8% score...
2025 Predictions: Strong IPO Surge, Google Leads AI
Every year I make a list of predictions & score the previous year’s. You can find my 10 Predictions for 2026 here. 2025 was a good year : I scored 7.85 out of 10. 1. The IPO market rips. Score...
Will Journals Reject Papers Using Real Code Variable Names?
Would papers get rejected if they used legal code with variable names instead of Greek laden pseudo code?
Shopify Fuels Agentic Commerce's Creative Shopping Explosion
I'm really really excited about Agentic Commerce. There is so much amazing stuff being built. Everything I test just feels delightful and right. Shopify is building all the layers of infrastructure to power a new cambrian explosion of creativity in...
Alignment Doesn't Guarantee Shared Understanding
“Alignment” usually means everyone saw the same slide. It almost never means everyone understands the same thing. https://t.co/YICBdph7Fb
Debating NVIDIA's Chip Sales to China Amid Tensions
Should NVIDIA sell chips to CHINA?
AI Demystified: From Neural Networks to Deep Learning
Peeling back the layers of AI! This infographic unravels the complex world from Neural Networks to Deep Learning. Dive deeper into AI with the insights from @ingliguori's 'The Digital Edge' 👉 https://t.co/Nrh6BBTRcF #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #DeepLearning https://t.co/8mNht9QunA
Few Paying Customers Beat 99% of Startups
Friendly reminder that if you have just a few paying customers, you’re doing better than 99% of startups.
