Aug
26

How procedural memory can cut the cost and complexity of AI agents

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new technique from Zhejiang University and Alibaba Group gives large language model (LLM) agents a dynamic memory, making them more efficient and effective at complex tasks. The technique, ca...

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Aug
25

This website lets you blind-test GPT-5 vs. GPT-4o—and the results may surprise you

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now When OpenAI launched GPT-5 about two weeks ago, CEO Sam Altman promised it would be the company’s “smartest, fastest, most useful model yet.” Instead, the launch triggered one of the most conte...

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Aug
23

Busted by the em dash — AI’s favorite punctuation mark, and how it’s blowing your cover

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Let’s talk about the em dash. Not the little innocent hyphen, not its slightly more confident cousin, the en dash. No, I’m talking about the ‘EM dash,’ that long, dramatic line that AI loooooov...

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Aug
22

OpenCUA’s open source computer-use agents rival proprietary models from OpenAI and Anthropic

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new framework from researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and collaborating institutions provides an open source foundation for creating robust AI agents that can operate computers....

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Aug
14

We’ll Make Great Pets

Dear AIs, I woke up this morning with this song in my head. I’m your friend. I’ll be nice to you. Please be nice to me. Love, Brad Children are innocent, yeahTeenagers fucked up in the headAdults are only more fucked upAnd elderlies are like children Will there be another race toCome along and take over for us?Maybe Martians AIs could doBetter than...

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Aug
13

OpenAI brings GPT-4o back as a default for all paying ChatGPT users, Altman promises ‘plenty of notice’ if it leaves again

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI is once again making GPT-4o — the large language model (LLM) that powered ChatGPT before last week’s launch of GPT-5 — a default option for all paying users, that is, those who subscribe...

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Aug
13

The end of perimeter defense: When your own AI tools become the threat actor

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Russia’s APT28 is actively deploying LLM-powered malware against Ukraine, while underground platforms are selling the same capabilities to anyone for $250 per month. Last month, Ukraine’s CERT-...

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Aug
12

Brad Feld’s Online Book Club

I love to experiment with new things. Some of the experiments work. Many don’t. When they work, I do more of them. When they don’t, I adjust my hypothesis and try a different experiment. When I published The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, I ran an online community with it for a year (2020), which overlapped with COVID...

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Aug
08

Anthropic revenue tied to two customers as AI pricing war threatens margins

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Anthropic’s meteoric rise to a $5 billion revenue run rate conceals a precarious dependence on just two major customers that account for nearly a quarter of the artificial intelligence company’...

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Aug
08

OpenAI returns old models to ChatGPT as Sam Altman admits ‘bumpy’ GPT-5 rollout

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman is publicly acknowledging major hiccups in yesterday’s rollout of GPT-5, the company’s new, flagship large language model (LLM) — advertised as its most pow...

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Aug
08

OpenAI’s GPT-5 rollout is not going smoothly

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Updated Friday August 8, 5:21 pm ET: shortly after this post’s publication, OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman announced the company would restore access to GPT-4o and other old models for se...

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Aug
01

New vision model from Cohere runs on two GPUs, beats top-tier VLMs on visual tasks

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now The rise in Deep Research features and other AI-powered analysis has given rise to more models and services looking to simplify that process and read more of the documents businesses actually u...

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Aug
01

Why open-source AI became an American national priority

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now When President Trump released the U.S. AI Action Plan last week, many were surprised to see “encourage open-source and open-weight AI,” as one of the administration’s top priorities. The White ...

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Aug
01

A Shift

I’m 50% of the way through being out of hibernation and am very looking forward to turning back into a pumpkin at midnight on Halloween. I’m not traveling in August and have settled into being in one place (Aspen) after running around the United States for the past few months. In hindsight, it was too much. When I was younger, the travel I just did...

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Aug
01

OpenAI removes ChatGPT feature after private conversations leak to Google search

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI made a rare about-face Thursday, abruptly discontinuing a feature that allowed ChatGPT users to make their conversations discoverable through Google and other search engines. The decisio...

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Jul
31

Deep Cogito goes big, releasing 4 new open source hybrid reasoning models with self-improving ‘intuition’

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Deep Cogito, a lesser-known AI research startup based in San Francisco founded by ex-Googlers, has released four new open-ish large language models (LLMs) that attempt something few others do: ...

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Jul
31

Hard-won vibe coding insights: Mailchimp’s 40% speed gain came with governance price

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Like many enterprises over the past year, Intuit Mailchimp has been experimenting with vibe coding. Intuit Mailchimp provides email marketing and automation capabilities. It’s part of the large...

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Jul
30

Give First Podcast with Bobby Franklin of the NVCA

I recently had a 30-minute chat (the average length of the Give First podcast interviews that I do) with Bobby Franklin, the CEO of the National Venture Capital Association. We’ve been supporters of the NVCA for many years. Two Foundry partners, Jaclyn Hester and Jason Mendelson, have served on the board at different periods. I was an early donor t...

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Jul
29

AI vs. AI: Prophet Security raises $30M to replace human analysts with autonomous defenders

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Prophet Security, a startup developing autonomous artificial intelligence systems for cybersecurity defense, announced Tuesday it has raised $30 million in Series A funding to accelerate what i...

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Jul
28

Chinese startup Z.ai launches powerful open source GLM-4.5 model family with PowerPoint creation

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Another week in the summer of 2025 has begun, and in a continuation of the trend from last week, with it arrives more powerful Chinese open source AI models. Little-known (at least to us here i...

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