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Can Pricing Bots Learn to Collude on Their Own?
Research shows pricing algorithms can drift to high prices without being told to. What a 2026 ICML paper cites, its caveats, and the human checks to add.
· 5 min
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Practical AI for the Business That Ships
The Track A deck from the Nov 8, 2026 talk: where AI is, what agents are, and how to actually use it. Free PDF.
· 41 pages
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Use It or Lose It: Keep Your Team Sharp While AI Does the Work
Rely on AI for a task and your team can slowly lose the skill to check it. A 2026 ICML paper explains why, and how to design work that prevents it.
· 5 min
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Governance Isn't Only a Brake. It's Also a Steering Wheel.
A 2026 report by DeepMind-affiliated researchers calls governance 'not purely a brake' on AI. How operators can use guardrails to steer, not just stop.
· 6 min
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"If It's Illegal Without AI, It's Illegal With It"
Google's 2026 policy paper says existing rules still apply to AI. Here's why I'd start an AI policy from the compliance you already have.
· 5 min
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Where AI Is Now: The State of Intelligence in 2026
AI has crossed from novelty to infrastructure. Here's what that actually means for your business.
· 5 min
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The AI Factory: We've Entered the Era of Digital Industrialization
How agentic AI is transforming the speed of creation — and what it means for the future of work.
· 10 min
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Inside Claude Opus 4.6: What Reasoning Models Actually Mean
A technical deep-dive for executives who want to understand what's under the hood.
· 8 min
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Phase 2: When AI Enters the Physical World
The digital factory is learning to build atoms, not just bits.
· 9 min
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Welcome to the Multi-Agent Era
How Manus, Claude, and orchestrated AI systems are reshaping what's possible.
· 8 min
Playbook
The Human-AI Partnership Model That Actually Works
How to pair with AI assistants for results that neither could achieve alone.
· 6 min
Playbook
Getting Started with AI: A Guide for the Skeptical and Sensible
You've heard the hype. You've seen the fear. Here's what actually makes sense.
· 9 min
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The Next 12-24 Months: Where AI Is Actually Heading
Forget the hype cycles. Here's what's coming and why it matters for your business.
· 6 min
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The 5+ Year Horizon: Where AI Is Really Going
Beyond the hype, beyond the fear—a systems thinker's view of what's coming.
· 7 min
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The AI Job Tsunami That Isn't Coming
Why the 'AI will take all jobs' narrative is wrong—and what's actually happening.
· 7 min