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Block (Square, Cash App) just rolled out BuilderBot — an AI agent that autonomously writes code, opens pull requests, and monitors CI across Block’s entire codebase. It’s already responsible for 15% of all production code changes. This isn’t a demo. It’s Harness Theory in production at enterprise scale. Business Engineer My Life in the Harness […]

OpenAI shared Q1 2026 financials with shareholders. The headline: $5.7 billion in revenue. The fine print: $3.7 billion burned. Revenue tripled year-over-year. Cash burn tripled too. The math hasn’t changed — it’s just gotten bigger. OpenAI Q1 2026 $5.7B Revenue (3x YoY) $3.7B Cash burn (3x YoY) $73B Cash on hand (end Q1) 65% Revenue

Databricks launched Genie One — an agentic co-worker for finance, marketing, and sales teams. But the real product isn’t the agent. It’s the Genie Ontology: a real-time knowledge graph of an organization’s data, documents, apps, and people. CEO Ali Ghodsi calls it the “secret sauce.” Business Engineer from SaaS to AgaaS — the shift to

Allbirds — the sustainable shoe company — just renamed itself Smartbird, hired a former AWS executive as CEO, doubled its funding to $100M, and pivoted to AI GPU infrastructure. A shoe company. To AI data centers. The Pivot Before Allbirds — sustainable footwear. Merino wool sneakers. DTC brand. First rename Sold shoe assets. Announced AI

The lunch is over. The CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Mistral, Cohere, Salesforce, and Meta sat with G7 leaders in Evian for two hours. No regulatory announcements. No policy outcomes. But the power map of frontier AI just became visible — and it confirms everything the Geopolitical Fencing framework predicted. What Happened The G7’s AI

Pinterest launched “Ask Pinterest” — an experimental AI shopping app that turns the platform’s visual discovery engine into a conversational agent. This isn’t a chatbot feature. It’s the beginning of the distribution layer rebuild the AI Supercycle predicts. What Ask Pinterest Is A standalone app (US-only, limited access) where users have conversations with an AI

Microsoft launched Copilot Cowork globally — an agentic AI that independently drafts documents, builds spreadsheets, and sends emails. Pay-per-task at $0.01/credit. And Gartner just published the IT 2030 archetypes showing what happens to IT teams when this scales. Business Engineer Microsoft’s frontier tuning play — entering the model race Read → Business Engineer from SaaS

The CEOs of the four most important AI labs on Earth are sitting down for a 2-hour lunch with G7 political leaders in Evian, France — today. The agenda: AI infrastructure, sovereignty, and regulation. The subtext: the Permission Layer is being negotiated in real time. The Table — G7 AI Working Lunch AI Lab CEOs:

Three moves from Microsoft that tell you exactly where enterprise AI economics are heading: Copilot Cowork goes usage-based. DeepSeek explored as a cheaper model. And Nadella says “we do a lot of tokenmaxxing internally — it’s almost addictive.” Business Engineer Microsoft’s frontier tuning play — entering the model race Read → Three Moves, One Signal

A chart from Epoch AI just revealed the most important inflection point in AI infrastructure: hyperscaler capex is on trend to exceed their operating cash flow by the end of 2026. The five largest cloud companies will soon be spending more on AI infrastructure than they earn. Business Engineer the AI capex map — where

Anthropic just published research analyzing 400,000 Claude Code sessions. The finding that matters most: humans make 70% of planning decisions. Claude handles 80% of execution. Anthropic’s own data just validated the exact division of labor that Harness Theory describes. Business Engineer My Life in the Harness — one person, an agent swarm, a department Read

Snap launched consumer AR glasses at $2,195 — and CEO Evan Spiegel called them “the next computer.” This isn’t a gadget launch. It’s a bet on the Thin Surface thesis: the computer is becoming something you wear, not something you sit at. Snap Specs — The Hardware $2,195 Consumer price 132g Weight 51° Field of

Four days after going public at $1.77 trillion, SpaceX is spending $60 billion to acquire Cursor — the AI coding agent used by millions of developers. This isn’t a space deal. This is Musk building the harness layer of the AI stack. Business Engineer the AI value chain — a multi-layered analysis Read → The

Everyone has a narrative about AI and jobs. The panic camp says AI is destroying employment. The executive camp says don’t worry. Gartner’s data says both are wrong — and the real story is more structural than either side admits. What Actually Caused Layoffs in 2025 1H 2025 241K jobs lost 2H 2025 1.15M jobs

France’s domestic intelligence agency is replacing Palantir with French-built software. Germany already did the same. All French civil servants are getting Mistral AI. And the Prime Minister just committed €655 million to sovereign AI. The Geopolitical Fencing thesis just went from framework to government procurement. The Moves DGSI (French intelligence) → replacing Palantir with ChapsVision

Similarweb’s May 2026 data on the top 10 websites in the world just dropped. The numbers challenge almost every narrative about where the internet is heading — especially the “AI is eating everything” story. YoY Growth — Top 10 Websites (May 2026 vs May 2025) TikTok+36.03% Reddit+14.88% Instagram+14.29% Google+4.42% ChatGPT+1.33% Bing+0.26% YouTube-0.80% Facebook-1.41% X.com-4.19% WhatsApp-14.50%

First the government pulled Anthropic’s best model. Now a consumer is suing over its paid plans. A lawsuit filed in federal court alleges Anthropic oversold the usage allowances on its $100 and $200/month Claude Max plans — and the company keeps changing the limits without clear notice. Business Engineer the Permission Layer — who controls

For a decade, enterprise software moved to the cloud. Now the Fable 5 recall is reversing that gravity for AI. When a government can revoke your cloud-hosted model overnight, on-premise stops being a legacy architecture and becomes a strategic necessity. Why On-Premise Is Back The cloud value proposition was simple: someone else manages the infrastructure,

According to Bloomberg, Cohere is seeing a surge of inbound interest from organizations re-evaluating their AI providers after the US government blocked Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The Fable 5 recall isn’t just hurting Anthropic — it’s reshaping the competitive landscape in real time. The Redistribution When the world’s most capable model goes dark

Everyone expected custom chips to erode Nvidia’s position. Instead, Nvidia’s share of the AI inference chip market grew from 66% to 74% in one year — while inference became the dominant AI workload. The moat is widening, not shrinking. Nvidia Inference Revenue — Quarterly Q1 2025$18B (66%) Q2 2025$22B (71%) Q3 2025$23B (68%) Q4 2025$33B