499: The Event ROI Reality Check
The episode explores how B2B marketers can make events a strategic, ROI‑driven investment by selecting the right mix, designing memorable experiences, and aligning sales and marketing. Charles Groome explains a three‑bucket framework and the value of smaller listening events, Jamie Gier emphasizes discovery, customer‑on‑stage storytelling, and account‑focused pods, while Lorie Coulombe stresses clear goals, audience research, and rigorous sales pre‑work and follow‑up. Together they share practical tactics—event portfolios, thematic hooks, shared KPIs, and regional/co‑hosted spend controls—to turn field time into measurable pipeline.
NyRAG Boosts Retrieval Accuracy with Multi‑Query LLM Expansion
NyRAG (pronounced as knee-RAG) is a simple tool for building RAG applications by crawling websites or processing documents, then deploying to Vespa for hybrid search with an integrated chat UI. When a user asks a question, NyRAG performs a multi-stage retrieval...
2025 EBA-ECB Payment Fraud Report: Key Insights and Takeaways for Fintechs and PSPs
The 2025 EBA‑ECB report shows European payment fraud losses jumped to €4.2 billion in 2024, a 17 % increase despite a stable fraud‑rate of 0.002 % of transaction value. Remote, digital channels drove the surge, with credit‑transfer fraud reaching €2.5 billion and APP scams...
True Luxury Is Time, Health, and Peace, Not Wealth
What if you hit your income goal this year? And still feel empty... That's how I felt on Jan. 1st, 2022. Still stressed. Still exhausted. Still missing my life. So I decided to redefine luxury: - Good sleep. - Time...
AI Factory Blueprint to Modernize Government and Boost Security
NVIDIA and US Technology Leaders Unveil AI Factory Design to Modernize Government and Secure the Nation https://t.co/L2laH0K1Y3 #AI #IoT #CES2026 @nvidia @PalantirTech @CrowdStrike @ServiceNow @LockheedMartin @northropgrumman @dataiku @DataRobot @DominoDataLab @h2oai @EnterpriseDB @Dynatrace @fiddler_ai @jfrog @protopia_ai @TrendMicro @wandb @Canonical @MirantisIT @nutanix @RedHat @spectrocloudinc...
Currys Upgrades Payment Tech
UK retailer Currys announced a partnership with payment processor Stripe to overhaul its checkout infrastructure. The integration will replace legacy systems with Stripe's unified payments platform, enabling faster, more secure transactions across online and in‑store channels. Currys expects the upgrade...
One in Five New YouTube Videos Are AI Slop
More than 20% of #videos shown to new #YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian https://t.co/6dnTR24LNl #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #AI #YouTuber #Technology @SpirosMargaris @PawlowskiMario @mvollmer1 @gvalan @ipfconline1 @LaurentAlaus @Shi4Tech @Fisher85M @kalydeoo @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 @chboursin @3itcom...
Setbacks Shape Founders by Their Meaning, Not Reality
Most first-time founders believe the hardest part is the situation they’re in. A missed deadline. An investor who passed. A launch that didn’t move numbers. A hire that didn’t work out. In the early days, progress gets interrupted in small, unglamorous ways...
European Banks Plan to Cut 200,000 Jobs as AI Takes Hold
European banks could eliminate more than 200,000 jobs by 2030 as AI reshapes operations, representing roughly 10% of staff across 35 major institutions. The cuts will focus on back‑office, risk management and compliance functions, where algorithms promise up to 30%...
Your Offer Is the #1 Business Growth Lever
The biggest lever you have to improve your business as a whole is your offer. What value are you providing potential customers to get you their time, dollars, experience. Improve your offer and the rest of your funnel will fundamentally change.
Hallmark Movies Boost Calm Focus for Reluctant Deep‑workers
I don't know how to describe it, but the greatest vibe coding hack for people who hate deep work is to turn on a Hallmark holiday movie in the background. There's something about the movie pacing that makes hammering 3...
How Is GovSat Supporting Secure Connectivity for European Governments?
In this episode, Tamara Bond‑Williams interviews Josef Nemec, Technical Director of GovSat, about the GovSat‑1 satellite’s role in delivering secure, non‑preemptible X‑band and military Ka‑band communications for European governments and NATO allies across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Nemec...
Iterative Prompting: Review, Update, Then Re‑ask Codex
How I use codex (mega thread 🧵) First I tell it to do something. Now this part is really important. I look at the response. Then, finally, after updating no markdown files: I tell it to do something else. (this works fine and...
Waymo and Zoox Will Decide Self‑Driving Car Future
Rodney Brooks has just published his annual predictions scorecard about AI, robotics, and technology more broadly. The best part is that he's been doing this for 8 years and scrupulously checks on the accuracy of his past predictions. One small...
Rare Saturn-Sized Rogue Planet Is First to Have Its Mass Measured
Researchers have measured the mass of a free‑floating, Saturn‑sized planet—KMT‑2024‑BLG‑0792/OGLE‑2024‑BLG‑0516—using a rare combination of ground‑based microlensing observations and Gaia space‑telescope data. The planet’s mass, about one‑fifth that of Jupiter, makes it the first rogue exoplanet with a confirmed mass measurement....
Elon Should Invest in xAI, Not Acquire—Optimus Justifies Purchase
Grok is going to be the AI that runs Tesla cars, xAI, Neuralink, and Optimus, among other things. It makes a lot of sense for Tesla to invest in xAI, but I'm not so sure it makes sense to put...
Instagram’s Memo Signals Shift From Growth to Control
Adam Mosseri just shared a twenty-slide year-end memo on Instagram. If you skim it, it sounds like familiar talk about AI, authenticity, and creators. If you read it closely, it lands very differently. This isn’t really about growth. It’s about control. The memo...
HITL and HOTL: An Air Traffic Control Analogy for Agentic AI
ArisGlobal’s senior VP Jason Bryant argues that both human‑in‑the‑loop (HITL) and human‑on‑the‑loop (HOTL) remain essential for deploying agentic AI in pharma. He uses an air‑traffic‑control analogy, portraying AI agents as aircraft and the orchestration layer as air‑traffic management. Bryant stresses...
Stop Predicting, Start Acting: Build, Write, Think Publicly
I keep seeing people try to predict their way out of uncertainty. That instinct is understandable. It’s also misplaced. What landed for me here is the shift away from prediction theater toward agency, intuition, and learning through action. When speed is...
Ask AI Tough Questions, Not Simple Tasks
You might be asking AI all the wrong questions. “Write me an email.” “Give me ideas.” “Help me with this task.” If you prompt like this, AI will do exactly what you ask. It’ll give slightly better versions of things...
OpenAI Merges Internal Teams to Fix Audio AI Accuracy Gap Ahead of ChatGPT Hardware Push
OpenAI has consolidated several internal audio teams to accelerate the development of next‑generation speech models, aiming to narrow the accuracy and latency gap with its text‑based systems. A new architecture under construction promises more natural, emotional, and real‑time conversational capabilities,...
AI-Powered Restaurant SaaS Hits 3x YoY Growth
Nothing like epic investor updates on 1/1/26. First up is @owner: 👩🍳 One of the best companies I've ever invested in is @owner — AI for restaurants. A great example of AI Vertical B2B. They dramatically accelerated in 2025: • Growing almost...
Constraints, Not Model Choice, Drive Real-World AI Success
Do you still care about picking the right model? GPT. Gemini. Claude. Bigger models. Bigger context windows. But when you actually work on real projects, you quickly realize something else. Most decisions aren’t driven by models. They’re governed by constraints. Cost Latency Quality Data privacy Every model call has a...
LLMs Could Serve as World Models for Training AI Agents, Study Finds
A multi‑institution study demonstrates that large language models can be fine‑tuned to act as world models, accurately simulating environment dynamics for AI agents. In structured text‑based tasks such as ALFWorld and SciWorld, models like Qwen2.5‑7B and Llama‑3.1‑8B achieved over 99%...
OpenWorkers: Self-Hosted Cloudflare Workers in Rust
OpenWorkers is an open‑source runtime that lets developers execute Cloudflare Workers‑compatible JavaScript on their own servers using Rust’s rusty_v8 V8 isolates. The platform provides familiar bindings such as KV storage, PostgreSQL, S3/R2, and full fetch/Web API support, along with built‑in...
Six Dimensions Align Data Science Teams, Methods, Outcomes
Six dimensions of Data Science — a simple framework to align teams, methods, and outcomes. 1. Goals (Why?) Data Science exists to drive insights, predictions, automation, and optimization — ultimately value creation and better decisions. 2. Methods (How?) Statistics, ML/DL,...
Hyper‑connections Residuals Boost Transformer Stability and Performance
Efficiency and performance tweaks in the transformer architecture usually focus(ed) on the normalization, attention, and FFN modules. For instance: Normalization: LayerNorm -> RMSNorm -> Dynamic TanH Attention: Grouped-query attention, sliding window, multi-head latent attention, sparse attention FFN: GeLU -> SiLU,...
Document Your SOPs Now, Or Lose Premium Sale
When the buyer asks for the SOPs and the founder realizes the "manual" is just their brain. Every founder reaches a point where they feel ready to exit. The growth is there, the product is solid, and they’re already eyeing the next...
Early Adoption Beats Watching: AI Advances Faster Than Expected
The pace of AI progress is easy to underestimate. Models are now outperforming experts across a wide range of knowledge tasks from analysis to application. What’s striking is how quickly this happened. Just a few years ago, this wasn’t even in the...
Meet the New Tech Laws of 2026
A cascade of state tech statutes will take effect in 2026, covering AI transparency, right‑to‑repair, cryptocurrency‑ATM safeguards, child‑focused privacy, and age‑verification mechanisms. California’s SB 53 mandates AI safety disclosures, while Colorado enforces comprehensive repair obligations and limits on crypto‑ATM transactions. The...
True Success: 15‑20 Years Building Iconic Ventures
Serial entrepeneur is good Even better is putting in the 15-20 years it likely takes to build something iconic that lasts
Leverage the Fresh Start Effect for Immediate Success
Happy 2026! Today is a great day to harness what behavioral scientists call The Fresh Start Effect. “The fresh start effect works because it aligns with human psychology. This is about working with, rather than against, our basic tendencies. We...
Bootstrapped $10M ARR: The SaaS Freedom Milestone
$10M ARR is the FU MONEY of SaaS. At $10M ARR bootstrapped, you and your co-founder clear $1M+/year in salary and dividends easily. You can sell instantly for $30-40M. There are hundreds of EBITDA buyers at this level vs. a handful...
How To Overcome Survey Fatigue: Latest Research and Proven Tips for 2026
Survey fatigue is eroding the reliability of customer feedback as marketers flood respondents with frequent, lengthy surveys. Recent data shows response rates have fallen 15‑30% in the past five years, with surveys longer than 10‑15 minutes driving up to 40%...
AI Hires Need Operators, Not Traditional Leaders
In order to run a company, you HAVE to be an outstanding leader. At least according to conventional wisdom. But as it turns out - if you want to make an AI agent your next "employee" - classical leadership skills become...
It’s Time To Write Your First Business Book
The business book market remains robust, with U.S. publishing revenue reaching $32.5 billion in 2024 and print titles still accounting for the bulk of sales. Audiobooks are the fastest‑growing format, expanding 22.2 percent to $2.4 billion last year, adding a new consumption channel...
AI Browsers Won’t Overtake Chrome Amid Trust Concerns
Everyone keeps asking if AI browsers are about to replace Chrome. I don’t see it happening anytime soon. We already have browsers people trust. Unless someone builds something truly new and wild, most users aren’t switching. Google will just absorb...
Trump Proposes $100B AI Fund in Austin
trump should set up a $100b ai startup fund via us treasury based in austin tx
Control Your Dials, Forecast Growth, Shape Results
Start forecasting your growth based on inputs. • Emails sent • Ad tests deployed • Creatives produced • Campaigns launched • Spend velocity by channel Those are the dials you control. You can’t force results, but you can shape what leads to them.
System Prompts Echo 1980s Expert Systems
2020s: AI "System Prompts": lengthy, carefully constructed sets of expert rules for a particular domain, created by "prompt engineers" 1980s: AI "Expert Systems": lengthy, carefully constructed sets of expert rules for a particular domain, created by "knowledge...
Cool AI Computer on Your Face Outshines Meta Displays
Finally, an AI computer that looks cool. On your face. It will be interesting to see if they can get any decent amount of market share. This looks completely better than the Meta displays.
Your Personal Brand Fuels Business Success
It’s officially 2026. Do I need to keep shouting this message and waving this sign around? Or are you finally convinced that building your personal brand will help build your business? (Please say you get it. My arms are getting tired.) https://t.co/XWnLFjtb6G
Master Agentic AI: From Foundations to Deployment
Roadmap to master Agentic AI 🧠🤖 Foundations → LLMs → Agent architectures Memory & planning → RAG → Tool use Multi-agent systems → Safety → Deployment → Automation Agentic AI = systems, not prompts. #AgenticAI #AIAgents #GenAI #LLMs #AI https://t.co/BfodYaoFz6
Botslab's G980H Dashcam Wins 2026 CES Innovation Award
Botslab Wins 2026 CES Innovation Award for its G980H Multi-Channel Dashcam https://t.co/Pqkzl1T8AN #ai #ces2026 #iot #5g https://t.co/IVE56tiKfS
Rising Ad Costs Force Companies to Prioritize UX and CRO
UX and CRO aren't a sexy topic. Most companies underinvest in these areas, even though they deliver massive ROI. With ad costs continually rising, companies are spending more on CRO in 2026. They have no choice... you have no choice. https://t.co/nz7KCfDB86
StreamUnlimited Debuts Custom Voice LLM at CES 2026
StreamUnlimited Launches Customizable Voice LLM Reference Integration for Audio Agent Products at CES 2026 https://t.co/00kzTGyfLX @CES #AI #IoT #CES2026 https://t.co/7YZG5k58q1
AGI Is an End‑to‑end Self‑improving Process, Not
AGI isn’t a model. It’s all about the end to end process. From pre training, to training, to RL, to scaffolding. The self/improving system is AGI.
AI Art Contest Offers $18K in ETH Prizes
🌹AI CONTEST 9🌹 Awarding ~18,000 in prizes for AI art. Contest open to anyone, including anti-ai accounts. Theme: WE Medium: AI/Mixed Media Deadline: 2/1/26 Prizes: 1st: 3 ETH (~$9000) 2nd: 1.5 ETH (~$4500) 3rd: 1 ETH (~$3000) 4th & 5th: .5 ETH (~$1500) Theme in next post👇 https://t.co/6rMc5v9WBo
Master AI Stacking, Not Just Tool Collection
110 AI tools 🤯 But the edge isn’t knowing them all. It’s knowing: • which ones to stack • where they fit in workflows • how they drive outcomes From tool chasing → system building. #AI #GenAI #Automation #Productivity #AIStack https://t.co/VIEK4qz5DX
DeepSeek Introduces Residual Path Enhancements for Transformers
Efficiency and performance tweaks in the transformer architecture usually focus(ed) on the normalization, attention, and FFN modules. Well, here is a holiday gift from DeepSeek (https://t.co/ow1RpEG2Bv). Finally some improvements of the residual path as well. https://t.co/XhnZwfL5of