Archive - 2nd Order Thinkers

Altman Wants to IPO Before Anyone Can Price Him Against Anthropic

Seven stories this week, a booing, a self-destruction, a free video model, and a visit to the Vatican among them.

May 21 • Jing Hu

Why I Stopped Chasing Every New AI Tool Release To Protect My Sanity

Years of obsessive tracking, and a single realization that keeps the brain fry from relapsing.

May 17 • Jing Hu

11:44

AI Runs Half Your Ops but Feels Stressed When Asked To Do Repetitive Work.

The perfect worker, it turns out, has preferences.

May 14 • Jing Hu

Private Equity's AI Locked In

The pitch has all the keywords you need: forward-deployed engineers, democratizing AI, and the end of consulting. It's however, about exploring new…

May 10 • Jing Hu and Klaas Ardinois

19:00

When OpenAI and Anthropic Walked Into a PE Firm; Musk Found a New Toy.

This week, the business models shifted. So did the goalposts.

May 7 • Jing Hu

5:40

Kidnapped by Anthropic

You don't want to only find out that your whole company's Claude account is banned the next day morning. Risks and counter measures

May 3 • Jing Hu and Klaas Ardinois

16:11

April 2026

AIs Are Protecting Each Other, AI Widens the Economic Gap

Anthropic's experiment proved your instructions matter less than your subscription tier... so are you now forced to the most pricy model?

Apr 30 • Jing Hu

5:56

I Read All 414 Pages of Stanford's AI Index. The Summary Misleads.

You'll stop quoting three of the most repeated AI stats after this.

Apr 26 • Jing Hu

There's Now an AI That Extracts You Before You Leave

A GitHub project called “Colleague.skill“ hit 12k+ stars.

Apr 19 • Jing Hu

A Shoe Company Became an AI One; The Trap No CEO Can Escape

Two researchers found the math behind why no CEO can stop firing. It's proven again that the market rewards you for pretending.

Apr 17 • Jing Hu

What Apple's AI Crackdown Got Right

Apple didn't create the problem. They just refused to take responsibility for it.

Apr 10 • Jing Hu

Google Gave Away Frontier AI. Anthropic Hid Theirs.

One put it on the internet for free. The other said the world wasn't ready.

Apr 9 • Jing Hu

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