Do rooms have coffee machines? That is a quick heuristic for picking hotels for work travel, probably any travel. When the answer is no, the rest of the hotel experience is more likely to be a let down. (Germany is an exception. They seem to be really into tea.)
“a giant turd of text” Oracle - ‘Generic AI stops at 60%, industry expertise is the missing 40%’
AI chatbots at the municipal level
Using an AI chat desk to augment the support desk for a Us county. This seems like a basic packaging of AI stuff that you could sell to thousands of places. It probably also exposes the redundancy and waste on the US Federalist system. E.g., does every county and city need different bulk trash pickup processes and PDF overviews?
🔗 Dreamforce 25 - how AI voice technology will give City of Kyle residents 24/7 phone support
“the flying car of the mind” AI is the flying car of the mind: Irresistible, impractical
AI agents as skills.
🔗 The Right Mental Model For Agentic AI
Buy things that have low competetive advantage
This is good framing and wording: “Reexamine your ecosystem and identify where ‘buy’ delivers scale and where selective ‘build’ unlocks advantage.”
🔗 Build Vs. Buy: Regaining Control To Deliver Digital Workplace Value
Survey on what people value for sponsorint B2B conferences
“What drives investment in third-party events: High-quality lead generation (67%) Credibility through association with analysts or peers (63%) Expansion into new accounts or buying centers (47%)”
🔗 Why B2B marketers are doubling down on events in 2026
Weird
Every culture with a weird thing thinks they’re the only one with the weird thing.
Defining slop
“It is generic and all the same personalized, the Big Mac without the onions.” defining slop
🤖 AI Answers Barely Shift Across Languages, Study Suggests
Even when asked in Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, or Spanish, modern AI chatbots like ChatGPT deliver answers aligned with secular, center-left, Western liberal values. Language introduces minor stylistic variations, but the core worldview remains strikingly consistent.
Summarized by AI.
Source summarized:
Do AIs think differently in different languages?
Key Points AI responses remain largely uniform across languages, with only slight variation in tone and emphasis. Modern LLMs exhibit center-left, secular, liberal values, regardless of the language used to prompt them.