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Links, news articles, clippings, etc. – classic blog-style.
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What Meta Muse needs to do to succeed in The Enterprise.
Muse gives Meta a strong starting point. It is a persistent agent that can perform tasks across applications rather than simply answer questions. Its early popularity also gives Meta something most enterprise AI vendors lack: users who may already understand the product before encountering it at work. But consumer adoption is not proof of enterprise…
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Oh, those rascally rogue AIs!
As of September 26th OpenAI has informed more than 100 third-party organisations about unauthorised activity involving its AI agents. Related, not great for the AI companies: During a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Disaster Management, District of Columbia and Census hearing on Wednesday, Chairman Josh Hawley, R-Mo., expressed concern about “the accelerating…
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People like fresh food, perceptions study
In one, participants compared potato chips with five-month and nine-month shelf lives. They rated the chips with the shorter shelf life as more natural and healthier, while those with the longer shelf life were considered more environmentally friendly and better for reducing waste. In another experiment, participants chose between pasta sauces with one- and three-year…
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People are drinking less wine
In the U.S., sales of wine cases declined 23% from 427 million in 2020 to 329 million in 2025, while total wine spending fell 22% from $94 billion to $74 billion … California can’t export its excess inventory because wine consumption is down globally and it’s more expensive to produce in the U.S. than countries…
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Management wants to fire you so, so bad
When “management” can figure out an ROI for a new technology, they default to firing your ass. AI/LLMs are by design anti-labor technology. The feverish pushing of LLM adoption by all levels of management is exemplary of this: You are not asked to use this tech because it will enable better work and ideas, but…
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Gartner is not a fan of FDEs
By 2028, 70% of enterprises will abandon agentic AI built by vendor forward-deployed engineering (FDE), trapped by soaring costs and unable to evolve it on their own according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. Vendor FDE is a model in which vendor engineers work directly with customers to build and deploy solutions.…
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I don’t want your UI, just give me an API
AI agents have made many apps unnecessary. Oh, I still need the data or function from that app. But I never want to “see” it again. Drop the user interface. Go headless. Why am I still logging into a system three times a year to mark my vacation time? Or navigating multiple travel sites to…
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Siri actually works now…?
At least, it seems to real good for David Pogue. Related: a more technical overview of using voice with AI. 🔗 125 Tests of the New AI Siri
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funky lifestyle demos
I feel we’re coming to another plateau of decreasing returns, because even as models keep getting (arguably) smarter, what you can do with them beyond flashy demos hasn’t really gelled into useful outcomes yet. … AI is not going to be much help with that, other than remove toil (yes, it will sort out your…
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Vulcan always limps
There is no possible safe, benign, entirely trustworthy technology devoid of downsides and debris…There’s only the Anthropocene…It’s not a shocking revelation, technology has been like that since forever; Vulcan always limps. 🔗 Bruce Sterling
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If you don’t know how to use AI at work, it doesn’t work well
You need to train people how to use AI, otherwise the results are not great: Because the real problem here is that to judge something – both during and after production – you have to master the topic you want to judge. And to master a topic you need to practice it for 10,000 hours…
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Facebook AI gearing up for enterprise sales
Gartner had previously advised that the company would likely need an enterprise leader to get in the mindset of CIOs and CTOs, Chandrasekaran said. [Former MongoDB CEO] Desai’s appointment appears designed to help bridge the gap between commercial and enterprise customers, he added. Desai said in a statement that Meta’s Enterprise Platform will focus on…
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What a Claude Code Max plan pays for shifts around a lot
It’s hard to tell how many tokens you’re getting, and it changes on you for mysterious reasons: Before the change, somewhere between 30% and 67% of requests included a thinking block, and output averaged 250 to 960 tokens per request. After it, 95% to 100% of requests included thinking, and output rose to 2,500 to…
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Cloudflare says the agents will outnumber us a thousand to one
🤖: The economic argument underneath is more interesting than the usual crawler complaint. “If you ask your AI agent to suggest where you should go to lunch, it may survey 1,000 restaurant menus in the area only to suggest one. The one restaurant may get your business, but the other 999 had to shoulder the…
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Wiley AI works around UN statistics portal API denials
An independent researcher has tied more than 16,000 scans of a United Nations statistics portal to artificial intelligence agents the researcher considers highly likely to have been run by OpenAI Group PBC. As summarized by another AI: What they did when told no is the interesting part. They built base64-encoded HTML forms on httpbin, fed…
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you have to go all in on agile, or you’ll hit the accountability paradox buzzsaw
A UK MoD medical IT programme failed for a decade under waterfall, restarted on SAFe in 2015, and now hits nine of ten deliverables on budget. The obstacle was never central government, which mandates Agile, but the department’s own procurement policy, business-case approval and accountability machinery. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Institutional challenges in agile adoption:…
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FDEs help one customer solve problems, then kick that back into the platform for all customers
The FDE is a developer who ‘sits with’ their users, applies customizations – but importantly – feeds these changes back to the core platform to decide whether the platform should be enhanced for everyone else. And, from the OP: Keeping the customer happy is a real job and a good one. It belongs to solutions…
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Subscriptionpocalypse
One other side note – as I was writing this, I started to realize how many businesses rely on consumers being lazy. Think about insurance – how often have I received a bill where the out of pocket was higher than expected. Or certain procedures wasn’t deemed “covered.” What I could do is get on…
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