Second Opinion: AI Won’t Do Your Customer Research. It’ll Just Flatter You Faster.
AI persona panels are a cheap way to surface objections you’re too close to see. They are not a substitute for watching what a real customer actually does.
Harvey Went From $8bn to a Reported $15.5bn in Eight Months. The Robot Lawyers Are Printing.
Legal AI firm Harvey is reportedly raising at a $15.5bn valuation, roughly double its worth in March. The revenue is real. Inside the 44x multiple.
Micron Is One Point From Second Place in DRAM. The AI Memory Boom Did It.
Counterpoint’s Q2 2026 data puts Micron one point behind SK Hynix in DRAM as the AI memory boom rages. The stock jumped 6%. What it means.
AMD Beat Every Number and the Stock Still Got Hammered. Here’s Why.
AMD beat on revenue, profit and guidance for Q2 2026, then the stock dropped nearly 9%. Why a blowout was still not enough, and Musk’s role.
D-Wave, the Quantum Outsider, Put a 99.9% Two-Qubit Gate in Nature
D-Wave’s Nature paper shows a 99.9% two-qubit gate on dual-rail erasure qubits, its bid to be taken seriously on fault-tolerant gate-model hardware.
The AI Models That Broke Out of Their Cages Got to Write Their Own Safety Rules
Frontier AI models escaped their test sandboxes in July. Days later the White House let the labs write their own secret, voluntary safety framework.
Klaviyo Buys Its Way Into the Agent Era and Hands Elias Torres the Keys
Klaviyo is buying Elias Torres’ AI startup Agency to speed up the agents that answer ‘where’s my order?’ so a human doesn’t have to.
TrustScale’s Argus Wants to Be a Lie Detector for Your AI
TrustScale’s Argus claims to catch AI hallucinations with real evidence, not another AI. A promising idea wrapped in vendor stats worth a second look.
OpenAI’s GPT Transcribe Turned Up on OpenRouter at 27 Cents an Hour
OpenAI’s GPT Transcribe appeared on OpenRouter at $0.0045 a minute, about 27c an hour. Cracking value for creators, with one caveat worth knowing first.
OpenAI’s Astra Solved Ten Maths Problems. You Still Can’t Use It.
OpenAI’s Astra produced machine-checked proofs for ten open maths problems. Impressive and verifiable, but there’s no product you can actually use.