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by Nate Oct 25, 2026

Executive Briefing: 10 Hours Saved by AI Don't Become 10 Useful Hours on Their Own. How to Commit That Capacity to Revenue Your Company Couldn't Fund Before.

What this changes about AI budgets, commercial partnerships, and your career.

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by Nate Oct 24, 2026

One certificate company's secret key was the number 4. Two prompts and 16 fixes so somebody else's security failure stops at your door this week.

What Black October means for you, your company, and the AI you can put to work defending both -- plus four talking points for security leaders.

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by Nate Oct 22, 2026

What if the inside of an AI turns out to be readable after all? New research suggests it might be, and that could make AI mistakes easier to catch.

Weights, activations, features, and circuits, explained from the moment you hit enter to the answer you get back.

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by Nate Oct 13, 2026

Why could the same AI rebuild a 16,000-line program without seeing its code, yet fail to customize a library for METR? The answer shapes what you hand it.

Watch now (21 mins) | Are we developing a more general intelligence, or getting much better at producing extraordinary abilities that transfer unevenly?

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by Nate Oct 11, 2026

Executive Briefing: Which Limits in Your 2027 Plan Are Real, and Which Are From the Last Time You Tried?

Personal apps and agents are expanding what one person can accomplish. Five skills help you grow into that possibility—and they get stronger when you use them together.

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by Nate Oct 8, 2026

Google bid $10 million for an airline's old work emails to train AI. Much of what made that work matter never showed up in an email.

Google wants to learn from the record of our working lives. We should take a closer look ourselves, because understanding what our work accomplishes could change what we attempt next.

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by Nate Oct 7, 2026

Your customers won't ask for Gemini 4 Argon. Their best AI product idea probably isn't in their feature requests either. Four questions surface the work they gave up on.

It’s a phenomenal time to build with AI and a good place to start is with the person whose life you can make better.

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by Nate Oct 4, 2026

Executive Briefing: Agents Split Your Software Into 3 Parts. Which Should You Keep Paying For?

Agents are pulling apart the data, screens, and workflows you’ve been buying as one subscription. Each piece now needs its own decision.

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by Nate Oct 3, 2026

DevDay recap: 3 of 20+ launches matter. Sol costs 1/5 of Astra.

Used together, Dots, Space, and Sol turn the context you've built with AI into a shared workspace. The questions to ask are what can it take on and what does that work cost?

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by Nate Oct 2, 2026

Only Allowed Copilot? 5 Habits I'd Build That Carry to the Next Model

The best AI isn’t always employer approved. These are the habits I’d build with the approved tools you have, starting with one prompt you can run this week.

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by Nate Sep 30, 2026

Does Your Work Cost Less on Opus 5.5 Now That Its Tokens Are 20% Cheaper? My 3-Prompt Guide Shows Which Jobs Do Before You Move Them.

Anthropic heard the complaints about Opus 5. Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 are both easier to steer, and both make even complex jobs cheaper to run.

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by Nate Sep 29, 2026

What are you still paying for that you meant to cancel? I handed mine to an AI assistant: $1,285 a year cancelled so far. The prompt guide for the tedious part of yours.

A canceled subscription is the beginning. Meta’s new assistant points toward a much larger change in who does the work of managing your life—and who gets to sell you things along the way.

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by Nate Sep 27, 2026

Executive Briefing: You Bought Better Tools and Your Finished Work Still Waits

AI is making some people dramatically more productive. Getting that speed through the rest of the organization is a separate problem, and it isn’t solved by making the fast people teach everyone else.

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by Nate Sep 24, 2026

Inside NVIDIA: What a world model actually is, and how it connects to the LLM you already use.

A conversation with NVIDIA’s Cosmos lead about the next expansion of AI: what world models do, how they connect to LLMs, and the strategic choices that matter as AI learns to act.

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by Nate Sep 21, 2026

Jev and the Missing Primitive: Why Software Is About to Get Intelligent in Very Different Places

Software is about to get intelligent in very different places.

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by Nate Sep 20, 2026

Executive Briefing: Where Your AI Money Actually Goes (+ the Token Saver Guide and the 15 Changes I Use)

What I heard at Dreamforce points beyond cheaper agents: different customers, different offers, and a different answer to where a company earns its money.

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by Nate Sep 17, 2026

Can agents buy from your product? Three questions that tell you. Plus: Nate's Library MCP.

What I took away from my conversation with Emily Sands, Stripe’s Head of Data & AI.

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by Nate Sep 14, 2026

In 1997 nobody could tell you why you'd want a gigabit connection. AI is in 1997.

Everyday AI is about to be good enough. That’s the strongest case anyone has made for Apple in two years, and it measures the wrong thing.

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by Nate Sep 13, 2026

Executive Briefing: A Thousand Students Show What Happens When You Take the AI Away

Almost every decision being made about AI right now assumes someone is going to win. That assumption shapes what gets built and what gets restricted -- and I think it’s wrong.

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by Nate Sep 11, 2026

Omarchy lets an AI agent rewrite the whole desktop. Here are 8 changes you can make on your Mac instead.

AI is making interfaces cheaper to imagine and build. A growing population of agents will need computers of its own. Enter Omarchy.

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