Every frontier AI lab is now using its own models to build the next version of itself. The bootstrapping of the self improvement loop has begun and is likely to accelerate. In March 2026, three things happened within the same two-week window. Chinese AI lab MiniMax released M2.7, which they described as "our first model...
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The Jobs AI Will Hit First: What Karpathy’s New Data Tells Us About $3.7 Trillion in Exposed Wages
Andrej Karpathy, the former Tesla AI chief and OpenAI co-founder, just released an open-source tool that scores every major U.S. occupation on its estimated exposure to current AI capabilities. The project pulls 2024 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook — covering 342 job types, roughly 143 million workers, and every sector...
Departments Are Albums: Agentic AI and the Coming Corporate Unbundling
In 2000, the music industry had a problem it misdiagnosed. Napster was stealing albums. The fix was obvious: stop the theft, protect the bundle. The album — twelve songs, a cover, a price — had structured the industry for fifty years. Labels, distributors, retailers, and artists all organized themselves around it. By 2003, iTunes had...
The AI Paradox at Work: Why LLMs Don’t Just Automate Tasks — They Undermine the Job Map
In early 2024, McDonald's made a quiet announcement: after three years of testing AI-powered drive-through ordering across more than 100 U.S. restaurants, the company was pulling the plug on its partnership with IBM. The technology would be removed by July 26. The official explanation was polished corporate-speak about "exploring voice ordering solutions more broadly."...
The Agentic Loop, Explained: What Every PM Should Know About How AI Agents Actually Work
If you've heard the term "agentic AI" in the past year, you're not alone. It's become the buzzword of choice for everything from coding assistants to customer service bots to—inevitably—project management tools. Vendors promise agents that will "autonomously manage your workflows" and "proactively handle tasks." Before dismissing this as hype (tempting) or buying in...
The Enterprise AI Shift: How Chinese Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Dominance
When Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky told Bloomberg in October that his company relies heavily on Alibaba's Qwen model for AI-powered customer service, calling it "very good, fast, and cheap," he offered a rare glimpse into a trend that's quietly reshaping enterprise AI adoption. While Silicon Valley giants battle over who can build the most powerful—and...
The AI slop bucket overflow: “Workslop” is the hidden productivity drain no one’s measuring
There's a new term making the rounds in corporate America, and it perfectly captures a frustration that's been building since ChatGPT entered the workplace: workslop. It's the AI-generated equivalent of that colleague who forwards you a 47-slide PowerPoint deck that somehow says nothing at all, except now it's happening at machine speed, in every department,...
AI Can Write Cost Sheets in Minutes. Accurate Ones? That’s Harder.
The promise is clear: Feed an AI your project description, employee data, and supplier catalog, and it will generate a detailed cost sheet in minutes instead of weeks. No more spreadsheet archaeology. No more chasing down procurement for vendor quotes. In theory. Several research teams and startups are already building this future. Early results suggest...
The Web’s Old Guard Isn’t Chasing AGI—They’re Building the New Infrastructure
Christina Wodtke, veteran product designer and Stanford lecturer, captured something profound recently: "The old timers who built the early web are coding with AI like it's 1995. They gave blockchain the sniff test and walked away. Ignored crypto. NFTs got a collective eye roll. But AI? Different story. The same folks who hand-coded HTML while...
The AI Job Apocalypse Is Already Here—But It’s Not What You Think
Simon Willison has a problem. As co-creator of Django and a veteran software engineer with 25 years of experience, he's watching his own profession get disrupted by the very technology he's helping to advance. However, in his recent conversation with journalist Natasha Zubes, what emerges isn't the typical doom-and-gloom narrative about AI replacing everyone. Instead,...
