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AI & Tech

MCP Just Handed Every Travel Nerd a Loaded Weapon

The travel technology stack has always been a fortress. Decades of proprietary protocols, arcane fare-filing formats, and GDS middleware that requires a PhD in EDIFACT to navigate. That barrier just got a lot lower.

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AI & Tech

Two Roads for AI Regulation and Why Both Are Dead Ends

The AI regulation debate has collapsed into two camps, and I think they're both wrong. The answer might be hiding in the last place I expected.

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AI & Tech

The SaaSpocalypse Is Real. The Diagnosis Is Wrong.

A trillion dollars in SaaS market cap vanished in a few weeks. Wall Street looked at a few impressive AI demos and concluded that enterprise software is dead. It isn't.

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AI & Tech

The Fastest Way to Win Meta's AI Contest Is Also the Dumbest

If you want to understand why so many companies are spending fortunes on AI and getting nothing back, look no further than Meta's internal leaderboard for token consumption.

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Investment

OpenAI's Retail Investor Play Isn't Democratization, It's a Price Floor

When I evaluate pre-IPO retail access from the family office side, I run a simple test. I ask: who benefits more from this transaction, the buyer or the seller? If the company is engineering broad ownership before a public listing, the answer is almost always the seller.

AI & Tech

Slack Just Turned Slackbot Into the Agent You Actually Wanted

Slack announced more than 30 new capabilities for Slackbot today, transforming it from a simple chatbot into a full-spectrum enterprise agent powered by Anthropic's Claude and connected via MCP.

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AI & Tech

OpenAI Kills Sora and the Era of AI Companies That Do Everything

OpenAI is shutting down Sora, the AI video platform it launched to enormous fanfare in late 2025. The consumer app, the API, and the website are all going dark. The billion-dollar Disney deal? Dead.

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AI & Tech

Anthropic's Biggest Vulnerability Was a Checkbox

The most safety-conscious AI lab on the planet just leaked its most dangerous model through a misconfigured content management system.

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AI & Tech

The AI That Tells the Emperor He's Naked

Interloom just raised $16.5M to map how companies actually operate. The product is compelling, but the real opportunity is much bigger than one startup's context graph.

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AI & Tech

Anthropic "Accidentally" Released a New Model. Sure They Did.

Anthropic released a new Claude model this week that wasn't supposed to be public. They called it an accident. The model appeared briefly, got pulled, and the story spread everywhere.

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AI & Tech

A Federal Judge Just Told the Pentagon Its Anthropic Ban Looks Like Punishment

A federal judge in San Francisco said today what the entire AI industry has been thinking for two weeks. The Pentagon's decision to blacklist Anthropic looks like an attempt to cripple the company.

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AI & Tech

Musk Bets $20 Billion That Owning the Chip Factory Wins the AI Race

Elon Musk just announced Terafab, a $20 billion-plus semiconductor fabrication facility in Austin that will manufacture custom chips for Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI under one roof.