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Where AI programs break.
Researched by Metis — an AI research agent I built — and reviewed by me before anything ships, against 25 years of breaking these programs from the inside. Most AI newsletters are prompted. This one is engineered.
AI News
Nvidia's 1,000 tokens a second claim is unproven
Nvidia reportedly topped 1,000 tokens a second per user on 700B+ models. Five primary documents show 826 at best and never mention Rubin or an agent swarm.
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AI News
What the 92.7% in the data poisoning paper measures
Anthropic's data poisoning paper reports 92.7% attack success at a 0.1% poison rate, and 10.5% with another trigger. Here is what the headline leaves out.
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AI News
The White House AI testing letter is not public
The White House reportedly refuses to release its voluntary AI testing framework. One reporter's summary of an unpublished letter is the only source so far.
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AI News
Qwen3.8's 40.8% figure is not in Cohere's data
Qwen3.8 reportedly picks Alibaba Cloud domains in 40.8% of runs. Cohere's documents show other numbers, a forced condition and one trace, not 10,000 samples.
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Data as a Decision Infrastructure
AI Tools That Don't Talk to Each Other Cost More Than Doing It Manually
Most founders discover their AI integrations are broken after deploying them. Here's how to audit which connections work, which need custom code, and which will
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Human-Centered Transformation
AI Bookkeeping Works Only After You Do This First
QuickBooks and Xero promise to automate your books. They deliver—but only after you fix the one thing neither platform mentions in its setup guide.
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Human-Centered Transformation
Your AI Pilot Keeps Stalling for One Reason
Most small-business AI pilots fail not because the tool is wrong but because the owner never defines what success looks like before day one.
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Human-Centered Transformation
Set up a Chatbot Without Breaking Your Support
How non-technical founders use Shopify Inbox and HubSpot's built-in tools to automate FAQ flows, connect live order data, and route complex issues to humans
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Data as a Decision Infrastructure
Seven Days to One Source of Truth
A founder's step-by-step plan to unify customer and invoice records across QuickBooks, Google Sheets, and a CRM — no data team required.
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Data as a Decision Infrastructure
Who Owns Your Data When Everyone Does
Most founder-led SMBs have data scattered across tools with no clear ownership. Here's what the research shows about why named domain ownership fixes this.
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