AI & Tech - JW Block

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Entrepreneurship

The Reason You Haven't Automated That Job Is Sitting a Few Feet Away

What stalls small-business automation is usually the person a few feet away whose job the tool would absorb, not the technology. Automate the task, redeploy the person.

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AI & Tech

I'm Running All Four Loops

Aparna Dhinakaran mapped four distinct loop architectures in AI engineering. I know the taxonomy is right because I'm running all four with a personal AI agent system — and the constraint at every level converges to the same bottleneck.

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AI & Tech

How to Become AI Fluent

Most AI adoption advice stops at automation. The highest expression of AI fluency is using the technology to create capabilities and growth opportunities that didn't exist before.

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Investment

The Smartest Money in the Room Just Bet Against Software

Apollo just called private equity's software concentration a systemic failure of risk management. Their HALO thesis tells founders what AI actually makes more valuable.

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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.

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.