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The agent gets $10 billion. You get the liability. (opens the original)
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A month ago, Instinct, the viral AI agent, was worth $2.5 billion.This week, it raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation. If you are wondering what Instinct is, let me back up. It is an invite-only AI agent that you can text or call. It reads your email, books your appointments, buys things for you, and fills out the pages of forms for your kids’ social activities. Sounds lovely, right?Meanwhile, Meta’s AI agent, Muse, hit the top of the App Store. And just yesterday, OpenAI launched Dots to
Droid Workshop — Episode 9: Whose voice is it? (opens the original)
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Right after summer break, I posted a sneak preview of the Dell Pro Max Tower T2, my new work companion to the Dell Pro Max Plus 18 (aka BB8).We hit a little snag with the cabling. But I’m super happy to share that we are now back in business!So, first things first. The specs for my fellow nerds:Intel Core Ultra 9 285K (36 MB cache, 24 cores, 24 threads, 3.2 GHz to 5.7 GHz, 125W)128GB: 4 x 32 GB, DDR5, 4400 MT/sTwo 4TB SSD TLC with DRAM M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 SED ReadyNVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Wo
The Arts Are for Everyone (opens the original)
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Some buildings are just ... buildings. You walk in. You do what you came to do. And you leave.The Kennedy Center was never one of those.The news that its doors are closed, and not for the right reasons, is hard to bear. Especially for those of us living in the DMV area.I remember the first time I walked into the Grand Foyer. I remember the scale and how grand it was. I remember the Hall of Nations, with flags of countries hanging overhead, each one a reminder of the beautiful and diverse world t
Trust is the new frontier (opens the original)
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What earns trust? And what does it take to keep it?Technology is evolving at a pace faster than ever. AI is changing the game, both for consumers and the services that they consume. And trust matters now, more than ever, especially when it comes to heavily regulated industries with high complexity and zero room for error, such as banking.As consumers’ expectations increase, however, banks are struggling to keep up. And they are finding out that structuring products around constraints of internal
Connecting the dots (opens the original)
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It started more than two years ago. Looking back, I should have seen the signs. But I didn’t know. It didn’t make a grand announcement. And it started as just a series of small things. The weight gain came first. Unglamorous, I know. I attributed it to stress and jet setting. Too many timezone changes. Irregular sleep schedules. Not enough running. Poor time management, I thought.Then the sleep problem started. Not just a bad night here and there. Almost a full year, with only two hours of sleep
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