AI Builder https://teapaw.org/t.co/QdmcWeEVdO . Work for HCM, EIR in enterprise, bringing AI/HCM/HRtech/worktech expertise to VC/PE. My own opinions & random quotes
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The entire X has adopted "the most realistic outcome is the most entertaining one" attitude by Elon Musk – at Palos Verdes Estates, CA
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They are calling themselves the Intelligence Agencies yet they are using unintelligent and old methods to recruit.
#quoteserious – at Palos Verdes Estates, CA
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Seriously wondering - is Elon Musk considering cyber truck a win or loss? – at Rolling Hills Estates, CA
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Interesting observation when working on Tacit app this weekend. Substack brings Save Post button out to your feed. LinkedIn hides it behind more options menu and requires two clicks. – at Palos Verdes Estates, CA
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How did they not run Mythos on their own design flaw?
Claude Dispatch flaw left open since May — Any browser extension controlling claude.ai can make Claude Desktop run code on the computer or another machine on the same account, a researcher found. Anthropic logged it as a duplicate, paid no bounty and said it would retire Dispatch in October, yet it is still in limited beta; he says Cowork shares the weakness.
theregister.com/research/202… – at Palos Verdes Estates, CA
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66% of HR leaders expect layoffs in 2027 — LHH's survey of 600 US leaders: nearly double the 2024 share, with 80% of CEOs expecting cuts. 38% cut severance (9% in 2024), and HR now leads outplacement decisions at 30% of firms, down from 58%, as CFOs and procurement step in.
hrdive.com/news/hr-leaders-e… – at Palos Verdes Estates, CA
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AWS Kiro bots get scoped memory — The now-GA persistent agents each keep their own notes and workspace, spawn worker sessions and run jobs on plain-language schedules. Memory stays within each bot's assignment and users can view, edit or delete it; permissions are set per bot. Pro is $20/month for 1,000 credits.
venturebeat.com/technology/a… – at Palos Verdes Estates, CA
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Sierra buys Anon so agents can finish the job — Anon's browser agents log into sites without APIs, handle MFA and run single tasks for hours; it raised $13M+ and reports hundreds of thousands of production tasks. It fills the web steps of Sierra's long-running, outcome-priced Horizon agents. Price undisclosed.
unite.ai/sierra-acquires-ano… – at Palos Verdes Estates, CA
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Five9 buys Level AI for $325M cash — Level AI, a partner since 2022, runs voice and digital CX agents and agent assist on its own Latitude models, which it says cost up to 49x less than frontier models. It handles 1B+ interactions a year for Gusto, Chime and VistaPrint, and will also be sold standalone.
unite.ai/five9-agrees-to-buy… – at Palos Verdes Estates, CA
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Future Secure AI raises $80M at $1.2B — The Sydney-founded, Austin-based maker of AI "co-workers," agent teams each with a name and face and a human supervisor, raised convertible notes from Square Peg, Yarra, Macquarie and Firetrail. It expects ARR near $100M by year-end and an ASX listing in late 2027. startupdaily.net/topic/fundi… – at Palos Verdes Estates, CA
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I'm yet to see anyone having success using Grok Bot. This is one my conversations with distracted Grok bot – at Palos Verdes Estates, CA
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One of the best ways to build a startup culture or team culture is to lead or participate in the client onsite. – at Palos Verdes Estates, CA
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Damodaran is at his game - consistent and thorough – at Palos Verdes Estates, CA
My Anthropic IPO valuation got some pushback, which is what it was designed to do. I used that pushback to list out what I believe are the biggest and most fragile assumptions in my story, and examined what can go wrong. bit.ly/4AaMy0P
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More and more often I find myself wanting to delete all memory in my Claude so it stops "linking" every response to a very specific point that I randomly mentioned in an irrelevant thread 6 months ago. – at Palos Verdes Estates, CA
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There are still many decent human beings in tech, @levie @alexisohanian to name a few – at Palos Verdes Estates, CA
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These elections make your phone SMS text messaging section absolutely useless. You cant get to your family texts without scrolling through hundreds of Vote No on Prop 40 messages... – at Palos Verdes Estates, CA
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