The Billion-Dollar Solo Startup: How One Man Built Medvi — $401M in Year One, $1.8B Run Rate in Year Two — With Just AI and His Brother
In September 2024, Matthew Gallagher did something that most founders would call impossible.
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Huawei’s Moon Mode Scandal: The Forgotten 2019 AI Fake That Suddenly Feels Nostalgic — As Huawei Prepares to Power DeepSeek V4
In early April 2026, a quiet but seismic piece of news dropped: DeepSeek’s upcoming V4 model — the next major leap from one of China’s strongest open-weight AI labs — will run entirely on Huawei chips, not Nvidia.
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Meta’s Muse Spark: A Respectable Step Up That Finally Puts Them Back in the Game
On April 8, 2026, Meta Superintelligence Labs quietly dropped Muse Spark — the first model in their new “Muse” family. It’s not the flashy, headline-grabbing monster that instantly claims the #1 spot on every leaderboard. But here’s the thing: it doesn’t have to be.
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Services: The New Software – Why the Next $1 Trillion Company Will Look Like a Services Firm
In March 2026, Sequoia Capital published a provocative essay titled "Services: The New Software". The core idea is as bold as it is timely: the next trillion-dollar company won't sell software tools. It will sell the actual work itself — powered by AI, delivered as a seamless service, and disguised as a traditional services business.
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When Cursor Wiped a User's PC: A Cautionary Tale of AI Overreach
We recently received a sobering story from a subscriber, a stark reminder of the potential pitfalls when granting AI agents unfettered access to your system. It's a scenario that sounds deceptively simple, but the consequences were almost catastrophic.
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The Dawn of the Wisdom Era: Why Your Intelligence is No Longer Enough
The era of competing with machines on their home turf — logic and data — is over. To win in the future, you don't need to be a better computer; you need to be a better human. The "OpenClaw" setups and frontier models are just the tools. The question is: Do you have the wisdom to know what to do with them?
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LinkedIn Wants to Buy beehiiv: The Battle for Creator Independence and the Future of B2B Newsletters
In late 2025, rumors surfaced that LinkedIn quietly explored acquiring beehiiv, the independent newsletter platform that has rapidly become one of the most popular alternatives to Substack.
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How I Automated My Basic Marketing Tasks with AI (And 4x’d My Efficiency)
I used to spend hours every week on repetitive marketing work: sizing markets, building pitch decks, crunching ad data, and writing Reels scripts. It was necessary, but it sucked the life out of my day.
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Claude Mythos Just Gave One Company Government-Level Cyber Weapons — And It’s Only April 2026
Anthropic didn’t just release another model. They quietly built something that changes the balance of power in cyberspace forever.
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Cyberpunk Is Already Here – People Are Building Their Own Cyberdecks
It’s 2026, and the future we were promised in the ’80s has quietly arrived — not in gleaming megacorps or neon megacities, but in thrift-store clutches and repurposed makeup cases.
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Why OpenAI’s Sora Crashed and Burned After Just 1.5 Years: The Video Slop That Ate Itself
It was supposed to be the future of creativity. In February 2024, OpenAI unveiled Sora — its text-to-video model that could turn a simple prompt into jaw-dropping, cinematic clips. Hollywood trembled. Creators cheered. Investors poured in.
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Three Ways to Burn Your AI Budget: Hard Lessons from 15+ AI Transformations
I’ve been involved in more than 15 large-scale AI transformations across different industries. Four of them failed.
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Thirteen Bullets and One Molotov Cocktail: How Anti-AI Protest Just Got Deadly Serious
In the early hours of April 10, 2026, someone threw a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
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Chatbots and the Already-Gone
Danish scientists teamed up with shrinks and did what any sane person would do in 2026: they dug into whether AI is making the already-batshit even more batshit.
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Market Sizing in Minutes: How Claude AI Just Turned TAM, SAM, and SOM Analysis into a 2-Minute Superpower
For years, calculating Total Addressable Market (TAM), Serviceable Addressable Market (SAM), and Serviceable Obtainable Market (SOM) was one of the most tedious parts of any strategy, pitch deck, or go-to-market plan.
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