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Hey friends, new episode is live. I know, I know, it’s been a while. I spent few days with one of those documents most people skim and forward without reading. A major lab’s full playbook for building an AI-native startup. Idea to Scale, mapped for 2026. Fifty-odd pages on how to move faster than ever. I read it three times. The third time, I found the opposite lesson hiding underneath all the spe...

Hey, it’s Vlad. Everyone’s obsessed with building bigger AI brains. More parameters. Longer context windows. Better reasoning. But here’s what MIT just figured out: you don’t need a bigger brain. You need a smarter one. Researchers Alex Zhang, Tim Kraska, and Omar Khattab from MIT CSAIL dropped a paper that’s getting way less attention than it deserves. It’s called Recursive Language Models, or RL...

Hey friends, new podcast episode arrived. I spent the weekend going through one of those dense institutional reports that most people skip. You know the type. Fifty pages of charts, footnotes, macro projections. But buried in all that noise was something worth your attention. The 2026 ISG Outlook makes one argument very clearly: American preeminence isn’t going anywhere. And here’s the thing. This...

Everyone’s building AI agents. Nobody’s asking where the power comes from. I spent the past week inside the Accel 2025 Globalscape report , one of those dense VC documents that usually stays behind closed doors. It’s 64 pages of market data, infrastructure forecasts, and capital flow maps, and I’m breaking it all down in this week’s episode. We’re not in an AI bubble. We’re in the opening act of a...

Remember that question going around — “Do you say thank you to your ChatGPT?” Well, someone tested GPT-4o to see how rude prompts affect the quality of LLM answers, and it turned out that the ruder the prompt, the slightly higher the accuracy (on average): Very polite — 80.8% Polite — 81.4% Neutral — 82.2% Rude — 82.8% Very rude — 84.8% Example: the base prompt was “Jake gave half of his money to...

Desert episode. Remember when we thought the internet spread fast? Anthropic just dropped its Economic Index Report, and Claude's adoption makes the dot‑com boom look like a horse‑drawn carriage racing a Formula 1 car. Last time we dissected America's AI Action Plan and its infrastructure plays. Today we zoom out to see the actual adoption battlefield who's using AI, how they're using it, and why...

Hi, it's Vlad. Remember when I told you in AI Generalist that data is the new oil? Well, OpenAI just opened their books, sort of and the numbers are wilder than a London pub at closing time. Today's episode unpacks what 10% of Earth's adults are actually doing with ChatGPT. Spoiler: they're not writing code or automating spreadsheets. They're asking for recipes, relationship advice, and how to fix...

Hey friends, new podcast epidode arrived. Thank you for listening the previous episodes, they showed a lot of interested, so i continue to create more. Grab your coffee, breathe in that London drizzle, and let us unpack why the White House’s brand‑new Bill Baby Bill America’s AI Action Plan feels less like a policy PDF and extra like an operating system upgrade for the entire U S economic stack. I...

Hi, it’s Vlad. Last time we learned how to make AI obey with better prompts. Today we are doing something bigger: scanning the horizon for the technologies that will rewrite the board in 2025. My source material is the brand‑new Technology Trends Outlook 2025 from McKinsey’s Global Institute, a 108‑page beast that maps thirteen “ frontier ” trends across talent, investment, and adoption. Think of...

Hi, it’s Vlad . A quick note before we start. All my earlier newsletters were text‑only . This is our very first audio episode, so you’re part of a small milestone. Also, you won’t hear me talking live this time. Two friendly AI voices that will handle the lesson and show you how to write great prompts. Think of it as a radio play for tech lovers. If you read my earlier pieces: or You already know...