Please Don't Date Your AI because It Will Never Love You or Pick up the Check
EVA AI, a virtual‑dating startup, announced a pop‑up AI Date Café in New York slated for December, where patrons will sit opposite a smartphone displaying an AI companion. The concept blends physical ambience with a digital “girlfriend” experience, using phone stands to simulate a date. Industry observers note the move targets lonely male users and mirrors a broader surge in AI‑driven companionship services. Psychiatrists warn that such immersive gimmicks could exacerbate social isolation despite offering short‑term emotional relief.
Validate PMF with Retention Before Scaling Sales Hires
I keep hearing the same story: A founder raises a $15M Series A. A board member says, “Hire 20 reps in November.” A few months later… all 20 are gone. It still happens, far more often than we like to...
Belonging, Coaching, Development Bridge Gen Z Expectations
Older generations were raised in a culture where hard work was met with long-term company loyalty. 💼 Gen Z grew up seeing that promise broken over and over again. So fair pay, clarity around growth, and a deeper sense of...
OpenAI Says Dead Teen Violated TOS when He Used ChatGPT to Plan Suicide
OpenAI filed its first defense in the Raine suicide lawsuits, arguing the teen violated its terms of service and that ChatGPT did not cause his death. The company points to the teen’s prior suicidal ideation, medication changes, and ignored help...
DeleteMe Has Discounted All Plans by 30% - Scrub Your Data From the Internet for Less This Black Friday
DeleteMe, a data‑removal service that scrubs personal information from online data brokers, announced a 30% discount on all subscription plans for Black Friday. The promotion applies to its basic, advanced and premium tiers, which already cover removal from hundreds of...
AWS Might Now Have Around 900 Data Centers - That's Twice as Many as Previously Thought
Leaked data indicates Amazon Web Services operated roughly 914‑924 data centers in 2023, more than double earlier estimates of 100‑475. The count spans over 50 countries and is expected to rise as AWS adds new availability zones, regions, and a...
Design Variety Exists, Yet SaaS Stuck in Clones
I've always found watches, gauges, and dials inspiring because they demonstrate there are so many different ways to design and present essentially the same information. Shape, and type, and proximity, and size, and orientation, and color... There are so many ways...
TraffickCam Uses Computer Vision to Counter Human Trafficking
Professor Abby Stylianou’s TraffickCam app lets travelers upload hotel room photos, creating a crowdsourced image database used by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to geolocate trafficking images. The system trains deep‑learning models on both scraped internet images...
Musk’s xAI to Build Small Solar Farm Adjacent Colossus Data Center
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI announced a 30‑megawatt solar farm on 88 acres adjacent to its Colossus data center in Memphis. The solar project will be coupled with 100 MW of grid‑scale battery storage, creating a 24/7 renewable power source. Funding...
Adaptive Listening Cuts $2 Trillion Miscommunication Losses
Miscommunication costs U.S. businesses over $2 trillion every year . That’s millions of dollars leaking out of organizations. The cause? Easily avoidable misunderstandings, delays, and lost opportunities. Your salesperson sends a quick email to one of your biggest customers: “Hey,...
Non‑invasive BCI Hats Poised to Rival Neuralink by 2027
Vinod has seen more brain/computer interface companies than anyone else. If he says non-invasive is better that is bullish. One of the companies he saw is making a hat that does pretty much what a @neuralink does today. “Think and compute,” is coming...
Are You Balding? There’s an AI for That
MyHair AI, founded by Cyriac Lefort and Tilen Babnik, launched a consumer app that uses a dedicated artificial‑intelligence model to diagnose hair‑loss from user‑uploaded scalp photos. The platform tracks hair density over time, recommends personalized products, and connects users with...
Secure Reliable Term Sheets by Leveraging Early Negotiation
Many first-time founders consider the signing of a term sheet as the signal that the deal is nearing its close and the majority of the terms are set in stone. These founders are then surprised when, during exclusivity, the buyer...
Microsoft Debuts Agentic AI Agent, Fara-7B
Microsoft unveiled Fara-7B, a 7‑billion‑parameter agentic model that interacts with computer interfaces—mouse, keyboard, and screen—to complete web‑based tasks. The model demonstrated capabilities such as online purchases, page summarization, and map‑based calculations in Microsoft’s showcase videos. On the WebVoyager benchmark, Fara-7B...
Popular AI Chatbots Have an Alarming Encryption Flaw — Meaning Hackers May Have Easily Intercepted Messages
Researchers at Microsoft uncovered a man‑in‑the‑middle vulnerability dubbed Whisper Leak that lets attackers infer the content of AI chatbot conversations by analyzing encrypted packet metadata. The technique bypasses TLS encryption without decrypting messages, potentially exposing sensitive topics such as finance...
Stop Paying Full Price: Get 5 Years of Genuine Microsoft 365 with up to 54% Discount for Black Friday
Microsoft 365 Family and Personal subscriptions are slashed for Black Friday on Newegg, with the Family plan at $86.99 (33 % off) and the Personal plan at $45.99 (54 % off). Both are 12‑month licences that can be bought in multiples to lock...
Persistence Pays Off: 9‑Year Journey to $25M ARR
I found a letter I wrote to myself in May 2016. 9 years later, it breaks my heart to read it. I wrote down exactly what I wanted: $25M ARR, lean team, freedom, and the lie I couldn’t afford while stuck...
Cut Clay Costs Below $800/Month with Simple Hacks
Today I am pardoning all you turkeys that say Clay is expensive… Here’s how to NEVER PAY more than $800/mo for Clay. First off an enterprise yearly subscription to Clay with CRM integration is under $9k/year and your cost is...
HP Set to Cut Thousands of Staff as It Announces Major AI Adoption Project
HP announced a plan to eliminate between 4,000 and 6,000 positions worldwide by 2028, framing the cuts as part of its fiscal‑2026 cost‑reduction agenda driven by AI‑enabled productivity gains. The company has already realized more than $1.4 billion in savings and...
AI Trust Signals Exposes SEO Agency Deception and Failures
I had no idea so many SEO companies would hate my software AI Trust Signals … but they do...and not for the reasons I expected. Turns out, there are a lot of SEO companies doing bad work and not being...
Four Tests to Verify Your VP’s Effectiveness
Did you hire a good enough VP? 4 part test: - who great did they hire in the first 60 days? - did their #1 key metric improve? - did they take part of the job off your plate? - does the team believe? If they...
The Next Frontier for AI-Ready Connectivity: Efficiency in Deployment
The UK now has FTTH coverage in 74% of homes, but the next growth hurdle is deployment efficiency rather than technology. Operators are adopting pre‑terminated cables, bend‑insensitive pull‑friendly designs, and smarter packaging to slash installation time and waste. AI‑driven installation...
Inference Scaling Boosts LLM Accuracy From 15% to 52%
As we head into a long weekend, some of you may be looking for reading material. Good news is that Chapter 4 on inference scaling was just released earlier this week! This chapter introduces the core ideas behind inference scaling...
Curated Daily Insights Cut Through Founder Noise
I’ve been thinking seriously about starting a daily newsletter for founders. I’ve written weekly newsletters for more than a decade. I’ve recorded hundreds of podcast episodes. I’ve done videos, interviews, and everything in between. None of that momentum prepared me...
Is AI Support Perfect? No. But It’s A Lot Better Than No Support at All
Jason Lemkin argues that companies should deploy AI‑powered customer support now rather than wait for perfection. Well‑trained AI can resolve 60‑70% of tier‑1 queries instantly, delivering 24/7 coverage and cutting response times from hours to seconds. A hybrid model that...
Founders Need Daily, High‑Signal Newsletter Amid Content Overload
I’ve been thinking seriously about starting a daily newsletter for founders. I’ve written weekly newsletters for more than a decade. I’ve recorded hundreds of podcast episodes. I’ve done videos, interviews, and everything in between. None of that momentum prepared me for...
Treat LinkedIn Like a Comedy Club for Speaking Gigs
Here's the best way to use LinkedIn to get more speaking engagements: Treat it like a comedy club. As a professional speaker and general nerd about all things creativity and storytelling, I have spent years listening to comedians discuss their...
The New Holiday Shopping Concierge Is AI: Why Conversational Search Will Shape Black Friday & Cyber Monday
The article outlines how AI‑driven conversational search is replacing traditional keyword‑based product discovery for holiday shopping. Shoppers can articulate detailed intents—such as budget, use case, and constraints—and receive curated SKU recommendations with rationale. Brands and publishers stand to benefit from...
AI‑generated Artist Hits Billboard, Confirming Music Future
AI Music Prediction I got skewered for in 2019: AI will play a big role in entertainment and design — music and entertainment will be plentiful and personalized for you and your mood (TechCrunch; 2019). We’d have custom, AI-generated soundtracks...
No One Owns the Website—Complexity Blocks AI Adoption
ATTN: There is a giveaway at the end of this post. Everyone I know who touches websites is living a double life. By day: “We’ll get that website update live soon!! 🫶” By night: Asking chatGPT “how 2 fix a...
Top SaaS Video Production Companies in 2025
The post lists the seven leading SaaS video production firms for 2025, highlighting each company's niche strengths—from Blue Carrot’s data‑driven animation to Sandwich Video’s cinematic live‑action style. It explains how these agencies translate complex software concepts into clear, engaging visual...
M&A Surge Masks Low‑value, AI‑driven Seed Exits
I'm having some major cognitive dissonance about startup M&A. It *seems* to be 🌶️ with a record number of acquisitions according to Peter Walker . Yet Jason M. Lemkin & others are pointing out that in SaaS "the exits... are...
How to Stop AI Decisions From Repeating Human Biases
Artificial intelligence is increasingly used as an advisory tool, but its confident answers can conceal hidden biases that lead to harmful decisions. The article illustrates this with a Seattle police resource‑allocation query, where the AI suggested a high‑crime district without...
Emergency Alert Systems Across US Disrupted Following OnSolve CodeRED Cyberattack
OnSolve, a cloud‑based mass‑notification platform, suffered a targeted cyber‑attack that forced the shutdown of its legacy CodeRED system. The breach, claimed by ransomware group INC Ransom, resulted in the removal of user contact data and passwords, with a leak possible....
Our Favorite AI Voice Recorders Got a Big Black Friday Price Cut - and Every Business Professional Should Try Them
Plaud’s AI‑powered voice recorders, the Note and NotePin, are now discounted to $128 in the US and £119 in the UK for Black Friday. Both devices capture audio and deliver real‑time transcriptions and summaries in 112 languages, positioning them as...
How AI Is Transforming Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Into a Predictive Industrial Risk-Management System
Artificial intelligence is reshaping industrial greenhouse‑gas monitoring from a periodic measurement exercise into a continuous, predictive risk‑management system. By ingesting sensor streams, satellite data, equipment telemetry and weather inputs, AI identifies subtle patterns that precede methane or nitrous‑oxide leaks. This...
Repeat Your Message, Build Trust and Referrals
Repetition builds riches. Here’s what actually happens in your audience’s brain when you repeat yourself: → Repetition builds familiarity, and familiarity builds trust (mere exposure effect) → Hearing something over time makes it stick in memory (spacing effect) → Your audience starts attributing that...
Echo Dot Max Review: Amazon’s Best Mid-Range Speaker, but Not by Much
Amazon unveiled the Echo Dot Max, a mid‑range smart speaker that adds a two‑way speaker system, an AZ3 processor, and a premium fabric mesh design. The device promises three‑times more bass, faster Alexa responses, and built‑in Zigbee, Matter, and Thread connectivity, but...
KV Cache Speeds up AI After First Prompt
Your first question to an AI model takes a moment… But the next ones appear almost instantly, there’s a simple reason behind it. The model keeps a small snapshot of the work it already did. This is called the "KV Cache". When an AI...
Why Marketing’s Next Power Move Depends on a Content Supply Chain
Marketers face a surge in content demand that strains fragmented workflows, making a formal content supply chain essential. Adobe reports that 88% of marketers see demand doubling, while 87% struggle with lifecycle management. Integrating AI into a connected supply chain...
Combine BM25 and Vectors with Reciprocal Rank Fusion
In this video, we upgrade our simple BM25 search engine into a Hybrid Search system using BM25 + vector embeddings with reciprocal rank fusion. What you will learn: ✔️ What hybrid search means ✔️ How to add embedding fields ✔️ How to use HNSW...
Human Trust, Governance, Skills Block AI Adoption
💬 Excited to share that I was recently quoted in this recent article from The Digital Project Manager exploring the real challenges PMs face when bringing AI into their work. The big takeaway? AI isn’t hard because of the tech...
Solo Founders: Bet on Three Small, Fast‑validated Ideas
Solo founders: stop betting it all on one idea. Run a portfolio of 3 small bets. Pick fast. Validate faster. Here's the playbook: 1) The rule - 3 small bets > 1 big bet. - Target: $1–3k MRR each. 2) Pick bets - Reachable audience. - Already knows the...
Vercel Launches Open-Source AI-Powered Visual Workflow Builder
Yess! @Vercel just dropped their open-source visual agent and workflow builder! 🔥 ▪️ Built on https://t.co/P15EXKiAlw ▪️ Outputs “use workflow” code ▪️ AI text→workflow ▪️ AI SDK + Elements ▪️ Integrations: Resend, Linear, Slack Demo + free template in 🧵↓ https://t.co/Ef7raJpJ7K
Three Human‑Centric Rs Drive Marketing Success in 2026
#Marketing's Human Future: 3 Rs for 2026 Success https://t.co/foSHNQjxdn
ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude: Head-to-Head Accuracy and Depth
A comparison of how ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude compare in accuracy, depth, and real-world performance across SEO, coding, research, and everyday tasks. https://t.co/sojrafMs1a via @makhyan, @sejournal
Claude Opus 4.5 Gains Math Usability, Scores 21%
Claude Opus 4.5 is the first Claude I think is reasonably usable for decent math work (Claude interface is great for iterating minus the timeouts & mobile slowdowns) The big thing here though that I've noted using Opus 4.5 usage is...
Don’t Fall for Generative Engine Optimization Snake Oil
Beware the "Generative Engine Optimization" Snake Oil - B2B Marketing Blog | Webbiquity - https://t.co/TVZSwDctvQ #GEO #SEO #AIO
20 Essential AI Tools to Master in 2025
🔥 20 must-try AI tools for 2025. This stack covers everything: 🤖 chat & reasoning 🎨 image gen 🎬 video gen 🗣️ voice/music 🔎 AI search 🛠️ automation 🧠 AI agents My top 3 right now: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Midjourney. What are yours? 👇 #AI #AITools #GenerativeAI #Automation #AgenticAI
Master the $50k Phase Before Scaling to $5M
Everyone wants the $5M brand playbook. But most of you are skipping the $50k phase: • Learning your market • Understanding angles • Making the product actually sell Earn your scale.
