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The Exploit Was the Bottleneck
On the last day of August, a single operator pointed a few hundred AI agents at a print-management server used by schools and offices around the world. The agents built a test lab, wrote exploits for 2 bugs disclosed 4 days earlier, pulled...
Is Private Equity Cooked?
Most people I talk to agree that tech buyouts are in a tough spot right now. Yet, LP $s continue to flow into re-ups with these same managers. In other words:
Tech buyouts have historically been the “safe” bet within private markets. To us...
Investing in Phaze
A major lesson in getting productivity out of agents over the last few years has been to give them computers and applications like you would a human. This wasn’t obvious at first, and we as an industry tried to create agent APIs and other a...
The State of Longevity
Make sure to also check out the companion podcast to this piece with here.
The longevity movement is here to stay (no pun intended).
Not long ago, taking care of our health largely meant following our doctor’s advice and sticking to what...
Investing in Tutor Intelligence
There is a quote from Jim Barksdale, former CEO of Netscape, that rings true for building and operating any business, and especially a robotics company: the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. The main thing in robotics is...
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