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A Company Spent Half a Billion Dollars on Claude and Forgot to Check the Bill
While some tech leaders started to see the reality of AI, Jensen Huang doubled down.
Jun 4
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Jing Hu
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May 2026
AI Didn’t Take Your Job. Your Boss Did.
A first-principles test for spotting hype in the automation debate
May 31
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Jing Hu
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5
14:19
Any Sign of SaaS dying in 2026?
This week: Robinhood hands AI your portfolio, China bets on token futures, and OpenAI puts a number on humanity.
May 28
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Jing Hu
10
1
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Why AI's Best Hackathon Demos Are Built on Workarounds
The fix that got three products to the top of latest Google Hackathon leaderboard also created the jobs every CEO swore AI would eliminate.
May 25
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Jing Hu
7
1
15:30
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
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Jing Hu
7
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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
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Jing Hu
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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
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Jing Hu
13
2
1
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
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Jing Hu
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Klaas Ardinois
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8
4
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
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Jing Hu
4
6
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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
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Jing Hu
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Klaas Ardinois
9
2
4
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
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Jing Hu
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3
1
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
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Jing Hu
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15
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