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2020-2026

The smartest AI teams are moving past chatbots

Subscribe • Previous Issues Your Enterprise Data Deserves Better Than a Chatbot Large language models and their multimodal variants remain the foundation models most people encounter first. That makes sense. Text, images, audio, and video cover a huge range of knowledge-work tasks, and today’s chatbots are far more capable than the text-only systems many people first tried. But enterprise AI does not…

What Upwork, DoorDash, Meta, EY, and Fundrise reveal about agents

Subscribe • Previous Issues Beyond the Demo: What Real AI Agents Actually Do at Work I am always on the lookout for new AI agents and applications that operate outside the coding world. By agent, I mean a system that can take a goal, use tools, keep context, and work through several steps rather than simply answer a prompt. Looking through my…

Stop upgrading your LLM. Start fixing your data.

Subscribe • Previous Issues Integration Is the New Moat: Moving Beyond the LLM The AI Agent Conference in New York was one of the better events I’ve attended to get a read on what’s actually happening with enterprise AI. The formal sessions were great, but the hallway conversations was where I got the inside scoop. The consistent message: deploying AI agents is…

Why your AI bills are going up (even as tokens get cheaper) 📉💸

Subscribe • Previous Issues The End of the AI Experiment: Surviving the CFO’s New ROI Demands Why This Has Become an Executive Issue Why is AI spend no longer just an IT budget problem? AI has crossed a threshold where aggregate spend across every department requires capital allocation discipline, not just software procurement review. Every function now has a case for AI…

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