Key Friday Reads: Cloud Capex, AI PR, Diesel Surge
🆓 Friday links: hyperscaler capex, AI's PR problem, and the impact of rising diesel prices. https://t.co/vyzAil00hZ image: https://t.co/roRgnqXJTw https://t.co/3uyUX25bxd
Expressive Robot Faces Enhance Human-Machine Interaction
Robots with expressive faces could improve human-machine interaction. What do you think? 😕😠😅 https://t.co/XUfFCrkEBV @IntEngineering https://t.co/YoSy5a2mQ2
DoD Can Outsource Custom AI, Conflict Publicized
Yes. Ultimately, DoD can pay x or Palantir or someone else to develop custom AI models for them, for example. The most important part of the Anthropic - DoD conflict was elevating some of the issues to the public, the...
Sleep While AI Builds Your App—Async Power Unleashed
Async AI at its peak. Literally going to sleep while @Anything builds my app 🦾 💥
Integrate AI Now to Halve Ecom Workload and Dominate
How to run an ecom brand in 2026 using AI for half the work: - Use AI to generate 10x more ad creatives than UGC creators can produce - Build a custom GPT trained on your customer service FAQs so new...
GPT‑5.4 Slower yet Corrects
Aligns with my experience with gpt-5.4, it is waay slower but catches up a lot of silly mistakes from Opus 4.6
Imagining an Extraordinary Future for Our Children
A filmmaker about to become a father sat down with AI leaders and asked one question: What kind of world is my child going to grow up in? My response was: What if that world could ACTUALLY be extraordinary? The AI...
China Farms Solar on Water, Mountains to Spare Farmland
China Builds Solar Farms on Water and Mountains, Preserving Land for Agriculture by @MarchUnofficial #Sustainability #RenewableEnergy #CleanEnergy https://t.co/rKBBV6eaJ8
New PV Inverter Metric Accounts for Local Solar Conditions
New PV inverter efficiency metric reflects local solar conditions #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/wtM5JHk0GQ
Kill Data Debt with Perfion PIM for 10k SKUs
Managing 10,000+ SKUs shouldn't be a horror story. Kill "Data Debt" with Perfion PIM and ditch messy spreadsheets. 📈 #PIM #Perfion #Distribution #SupplyChain #DataManagement #ERP Schedule a meeting with me: https://t.co/ZsEwnG4p2n https://t.co/tRldYvC7rO
Scion: Open‑Source Multi‑Agent Orchestration for AI Swarms
Am I supposed to talk about this yet? It's Friday, let see what happens. We quietly open sourced Scion, a new multi-agent orchestration tool for deploying and managing swarms of containerized AI agents Describe the rules, agents self-organize. All in...
IOS 26.3 Beta Adds New Live Weather Wallpapers and Lock‑screen Options
Apple keeps enhancing and expanding the live weather wallpaper and lock screen options in iOS 26. Here are some of the latest options in iOS 26.3 [release candidate beta] and how to try them... https://t.co/iwvpGclM5d #iphone #ios26 #weather https://t.co/4z5nrdTXjh
Future Silicon Will Be Built for Agentic AI
From here on out, all silicon architecture designs will be designed with agentic AI in mind. Basically, all silicon becomes agentic workload-focused.
AI Agents in Production Create New Technical Debt
The new technical debt: AI agents in prod with no clear success criteria, SLOs, or governance around their actions. #DevOps #AIOps https://t.co/tRGwCPc4Mb
Anthropic AI Lacks Open Researcher Verification, Causing Refusals
. @AnthropicAI has stated previously that they want to work with the security research community. Other than the fellow program (a paid, exclusive program), where is the sign-up to prove you are a legitimate researcher, verify your identity, and report...
Leverage Firsthand Experts When AI Strategy Relies On Them
Getting someone with first hand knowledge makes sense when part of your AI strategy depends on it
Optimize Existing Wins for Sustainable 5.4x ROI
In 2025, my clients saw an average ROI of 5.4x. And the part I know you’re going to love 👉 We didn’t throw everything out and start over. We simply focused on optimizing and refining what was already working. Because sustainable growth doesn’t...
Marketers Chase Reddit Hype, Ignore Lasting Brand Value
Marketers suddenly want to prioritize Reddit efforts because they think "it helps with LLMs" but no one cared about Reddit prior to AI search being all the rage. If this was 2016, no one would be prioritizing Reddit. And that's...
AI Augments Knowledge Workers, Preserving Human Agency
Marcus Fontoura, CTO for Microsoft Azure, author of HUMAN AGENCY IN A DIGITAL WORLD, on impact of AI on knowledge workers https://t.co/DFOk3yJikn
AI Chief of Staff Turns Chaos Into Seamless Daily Flow
Before I set up my AI chief of staff: ↓ - I'd spend 20 minutes every morning figuring out what to work on - Meeting prep meant scrambling through old emails five minutes before the call - Operational stuff like checking payments, following...
Choosing Your SaaS Agentic Interface: Which Approach Works?
If you've built (or are planning to build) an agentic interface to your SaaS, which approach did you take?
AI Takes Over Finance as UX Vanishes
Neobanks gave us better UX Agentic finance gives us no UX The AI just handles it That's the shift
AI Agents Should Simplify, Not Complicate Workflows
Everyone is overcomplicating AI agents. You don't need a Mac Mini in your closet. You don't need terminal setup. You don't need a separate machine. Claude Dispatch: message from your phone, AI does the work on your computer. Last week I ran 4 tasks from...
Prioritize New Customer Rate Over ROAS for Growth
ROAS is quietly the most deceptive metric that nobody knows how to track. The moment you push into cold audiences, ROAS can drop. And every operator trained on it pulls back exactly when they should push. Almost every account we inherit has...
Seeking AI Clone to Attend All Product Demos
Has anyone made an AI agent I can use to clone myself to be able to attend all the dozens of product demos I am pitched weekly?
Need Per‑Prompt ‘YOLO’ Mode for Claude Code
I wish Claude Code had a /yolo option for an individual prompt. Or maybe it already exists and I just don't know about it. I don't want to turn on "dangerously-skip-permissions" as a default behavior, but there are times when...
Agent-Native Payments Set to Drive 10x Transaction Surge
I basically agree. Agents are soon going to be buying services/resources online, and the world is going to need agent-native payment infra, like Sam's @agentcashdev We're probably looking at a >10x transaction increase.
Plesetsk Launch Planned Early April to 63° Inclination
Local warnings and at least one NOTAM indicate an upcoming launch from Plesetsk between April 1 and 15 to an orbit with an inclination 63 degrees toward the Equator: https://t.co/EhSC0xsQVM https://t.co/E7nBV3xpBV
Compute Gap Vast; AMD Poised to Fill It
The compute gap is very large. I'd love to come up with an estimate of how large, will try, but its large. NVIDIA alone can't fill the gap, not sure even TPU scale can help fill the gap at...
AI Becomes Strategic Driver of 2026 Enterprise Innovation
Use of AI Triples for Product and Enterprise Innovation in 2026 https://t.co/3CNiNbURdd From my latest global CIO survey. The use of AI gets far more strategic this year. https://t.co/3xIOumQeI3
AI‑Built Healthcare Platform Wins Real Paying Users
A founder shipped a healthcare platform - 400 users, 50 paying customers, 100% built with AI. Engineers keep telling her it's not possible. I've heard this one before. Four times, actually. https://t.co/M3jJ1HZ9e6
Boom Engine Stands Out Amid Claims of Uniqueness
Boom engine review today. Surprised how often I hear “we just did something no one has done before.” Remarkable engine, designed in a remarkable fashion. https://t.co/0cVuJ4YIFk
Gleamer AI Outperforms Clinical Validation in Real-World Use
An AI delivering more in the messy real world, than on the (already outstanding) original clinical validation publication … that’s the power of @gleamer_ai , now part of @RadNetImaging DeepHealth 🚀 #radiology #AI @BIR_News 2026 London https://t.co/PhFjveXqWQ
Frontier Robotics Are Arriving—Invest Now, Timing Irrelevant
Melania Trump walking the red carpet with Figure 03 was the third step forward for bots this week. We also saw $UBER commit $1.25B to robotaxis and Google DeepMind sign its third robotics hardware partnership in six months. Bottom line: We...
California’s Grid Generates Double Renewable Power, Cuts Gas 60%
WindWaterSolar has produced TWICE the electricity as the SUM of fossil gas, nuclear, and bioenergy on the @CaliforniaISO grid in 2026. Gas is down 59.4%; WWS is up 24.1%; batteries up 335% in '26 v '23. 35 straight and 62 of 85...
Walmart's OpenAI Exit Signals AI Model Battle for Finance
Walmart dropping OpenAI is hitting the headlines. What does this reveals about Agentic Commerce and what every Bank, Insurer, and Fintech should take from it? Which model will financial institutions choose when AI agents start selecting and purchasing financial products on...
AI Will Reshape Healthcare; Leaders Must Drive New Thinking
Everyone agrees AI will change healthcare, but institutional momentum hasn't shifted to redeploy people. The question isn't "who gets left behind?" It's: Who leads the thinking? https://t.co/AyFMFqXwyL
AI Boosts Recruiter Efficiency: Real-World Workflow Hacks
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep369 - Optimising Your Recruiter Workflow with AI - Real Examples https://t.co/9PGKK22Tex
AI Documentary Strives for Balance, Risks Over‑Forgiveness
A new AI documentary is trying to find a middle ground between fear and optimism. Instead of taking a hard stance, it explores both sides of the debate, but some argue it ends up being too forgiving toward the people building...
Iran-Linked Hackers Breach FBI Director Kash Patel's Email
FBI Director Kash Patel's email breached by hackers linked to Iran, sour... https://t.co/CmeuUp2yiA via @YouTube
Microsoft Highlights AI Datacenter Demand's Fungibility, Market Mismatch
$MSFT showing just how fungible AI Datacenter demand is... the market and "the market" are wildly disconnected.
Ad‑Supported AI Tool Wins Doctor’s Praise for Free Access
Advertising in AI gets a BAD rep. But at least one AI service provider seems to be handling it well. Spoke last week with a cancer doctor about AI and specifically about the “ChatGPT for doctors” tool, Open Evidence - he...
Anthropic Tests Next‑gen AI that Outpaces Security Defenses
Exclusive: Anthropic acknowledges testing new AI model representing ‘step change’ in capabilities, after accidental data leak reveals its existence Get ready for "upcoming wave[s] of models that can exploit vulnerabilities in ways that far outpace the efforts of defender..." https://t.co/dMiDv9KoV3
BART Hides Equity Consultant Fees Behind Fare Enforcement Claims
BART is claims they always took fare enforcement seriously. Why won't they respond to kane's public records request asking them how much they paid equity consultants to argue it didn't matter (and had "detrimental effects on the community")? https://t.co/wAHE5AYPf5
Heat Pumps Slashed Russian Gas Use by Half
When the Ukraine war broke out, the NSC was only talking about LNG. I pushed for heat pumps. They said "cute idea, not gonna happen." Europe proved them wrong — 45-50% reduction in Russian gas through efficiency and heat pumps alone. https://t.co/PmB3c97oaf
Smart Money Backs Infrastructure, Not Shiny Model Hype
Databricks keeps growing while everyone chases the shiny model release. That's not boring. That's a pattern. The infrastructure layer consolidates quietly. The application layer gets all the noise. DJ take: the crowd watches the lights. The smart money builds the sound system.
Structured Pilot-to-Paid Framework Drives 80% Conversion
Founders: Pilot-to-paid conversion framework: 1. Weekly success metric reviews 2. Bi-weekly stakeholder updates 3. End-user feedback collection 4. ROI calculation at day 20 5. Transition meeting day 25 Structure = 80% conversion.
GLP-1 Drugs: Brain‑targeted Cure for Obesity and Addictions
In 1992, scientists discovered a chemical in Gila monster venom that mimicked GLP-1, the hormone your gut releases to signal fullness. By tinkering with its structure, pharma companies extended its duration from two hours (the Gila monster version) to one...
Oman Leases Astranis Satellite to Avoid Costly Del
'It's extremely expensive to wait,' Oman's #MBGroup says, explaining its lease of @Astranis satellite, to launch this year. Omani government meanwhile struggles to retain rights to its GEO slot. @ITUradiocomms @AirbusSpace.https://t.co/PAHVXkavCl https://t.co/v1KIYhPa33
Flexpa Powers the Emerging AI-Driven Healthcare System
.@flexpa is integral to enabling the AI-powered healthcare system currently being built. and we're ready for all of it.