Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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Walmart Tried AI Checkout Inside ChatGPT. It Converted 3x Worse Than Their Website.
Walmart put 200,000 products inside ChatGPT with instant checkout. The conversion rate was one-third of their regular website. The first real data point that agentic commerce is not ready.
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GitHub Will Train AI on Your Code Starting April 24. You Have to Opt Out.
Starting April 24, GitHub will use your Copilot interactions to train AI models. Free, Pro, and Pro+ users are enrolled by default. You have to actively opt out. Most people will not.
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OpenAI Raised $110 Billion. Read That Number Again.
Amazon put in $50 billion. NVIDIA put in $30 billion. SoftBank put in $30 billion. The largest private funding round in history values OpenAI at $840 billion. More than most countries. What could possibly justify this?
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ElevenLabs Hit $11 Billion in Three Years. Two Founders. Voice AI.
From a 2-person startup to an $11 billion valuation in roughly three years. ElevenLabs raised $500 million from Sequoia to build the future of synthetic voice. The speed is almost absurd.
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Unsung Hero: The Man Who Built the Invisible Machine That Compiles All Your Code
Chris Lattner's master's thesis became LLVM, the most widely used compiler backend on Earth. He then created Swift, MLIR, and is now building Mojo. Every time you compile code, his work is running underneath.
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Unsung Hero: The Professor Whose Free Lectures Trained a Generation of Database Engineers
Andy Pavlo runs CMU's database research group. His free YouTube lectures have trained more database engineers than most universities. His research influenced DuckDB, CockroachDB, and every modern analytical database.
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Perplexity Shipped an AI That Lives in Your House. On a Mac Mini. For $200 a Month.
Perplexity's 'Personal Computer' is an always-on AI agent running on a physical Mac mini in your home. It accesses your local files, coordinates other AI systems, and has a kill switch. This is a new product category.
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Unsung Hero: The Professor Who Open-Sourced Legged Robots for Everyone
Boston Dynamics gets the viral videos. Professor Sangbae Kim at MIT built affordable legged robots and gave the designs away for free. The entire quadruped robot industry traces back to his lab.
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Waymo Raised $16 Billion and Is Targeting 1 Million Rides a Week. This Is No Longer an Experiment.
Waymo launched its 6th-generation autonomous driver, raised the largest AV round ever at $16 billion, and is expanding to 11 cities plus Tokyo and London. The science project phase is over.
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HP Made Customers Wait 15 Minutes on Purpose. Even When Agents Were Free.
HP deliberately forced callers in five European countries to wait 15 minutes to push them toward 'digital self-service.' The recording said 'we are experiencing longer wait times.' It was a lie.