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Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B matches December's frontier models & runs locally on 12GB RAM. A $5K laptop pays for itself in weeks at heavy usage.

The more I use AI, the more I return to paper. Strategic planning upstream unlocks autonomous execution downstream.

DeepSeek V3 matches GPT-5.2 on most benchmarks. It costs 90% less. AI has its generic drug moment.

Databricks has overtaken Snowflake in revenue. AI turned unstructured data from liability to asset, flipping the data warehouse market.

What happens when an AI agent gets stuck in an infinite loop--and how do you fix it without waking up the on-call pager? The 3 AM Call That Wasn't Last week, I was reviewing our Julius Agent monitoring dashboard when I noticed a peculiar pattern. Two ...

Block cut 40% of its workforce citing AI. The productivity game has changed, and every company needs to respond.

Analysis of 14 production agent workflows reveals the optimal balance between deterministic code & LLM inference. 65% of nodes run as pure code, saving tokens & improving reliability.

Saudi Aramco's tiny float and state control make it a poor comparison for upcoming mega-IPOs like SpaceX, OpenAI & Anthropic.

Theory Ventures leads Koah's $20.5M Series A to build the monetization layer for AI applications. Every interface shift finds its answer in advertising.

The Problem When processing tasks with the Julius Agent using Fireworks.ai (Kimi K2.5), we discovered that responses were coming back empty after tool execution completed successfully. This was a frustrating bug because: The tool loop would execute ...