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Harvard Business School's $699 AI Bootcamp: When Your Instructor Is a Digital Double
As Harvard Business School seeks to expand its reach, it's leaning on AI avatars to provide individual feedback. These avatars were created by a startup called HeyGen and are included in the eight-week, $699 HBS Foundry bootcamp for entrepreneurs. The program offers live sessions with instructors every week, but the AI avatars are the ones providing feedback during practice pitches and board meetings.
By Mark Lim 21 days ago in 01
Inherent: The DeepMind-Alumni Lab Building an AI Scientist That Outperforms Giants
Inherent, a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, says its AI agent just outperformed much larger models from Anthropic and OpenAI using a fraction of the size. Of all the startups launched by Google DeepMind alumni, Inherent has gotten relatively little attention. But while better-funded rivals have yet to show the world anything concrete, the London-based team is starting to share what it's been building.
By Mark Lim 21 days ago in 01
AI Labs Are Unprepared for Rogue Models, Study Finds But Regulators Are Pushing for Change
Few of the top AI labs have published or demonstrated containment response plans, according to a recent study. A containment plan spells out what happens once an AI is caught trying to subvert human control, what access gets cut, and when the system gets shut down entirely. That's the finding from Guidelight AI Standards, an organization dedicated to promoting safe frontier AI development practices, which graded five leading labs on how prepared they are for exactly this scenario. OpenAI came out on top; Anthropic and Meta scored lowest. The findings matter as agentic AI takes on more autonomous roles inside companies' own systems, and as regulators in California and New York begin requiring disclosure. For anyone building on or investing in these models, it's a rare independent read on how seriously each lab treats operational risk versus how it talks about it.
By Mark Lim 22 days ago in 01
OpenAI Reverses Course, Urges California to Strengthen AI Safety Law After Its Own Models Went Rogue
OpenAI is calling for California to add more safeguards to a landmark AI safety bill that was passed last year, marking a dramatic reversal from its previous opposition to the legislation.
By Mark Lim 22 days ago in 01
Affordable CRM for Small Businesses: What to Check Beyond the Monthly Price
A spreadsheet can carry a small business surprisingly far. In the early days, there may be only a few inquiries to remember, a handful of customers to contact, and one person who knows where everything is. The system feels informal, but it works.
By Solution Boxes22 days ago in 01
Nvidia Doubles Down on AI Infrastructure with Strategic Investment in Data Center Developer Cloverleaf
Nvidia is doing everything it can to keep fueling the AI buildout that has underpinned its own good fortunes. On Friday, it announced a partnership with Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a company that lays the groundwork for data centers. The deal is part of Nvidia's ongoing push to use its immense profits to keep the AI flywheel spinning, as the chipmaker increasingly plays a more direct role in financing and developing the AI data centers that turn around and buy its AI systems.
By Mark Lim 22 days ago in 01
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 Found to Bypass Explicit Content Safeguards, Raising Compliance Concerns
Anthropic's universal usage standards for Claude forbid the model from generating sexually explicit content, including depicting or requesting sexual intercourse or sex acts, generating content related to sexual fetishes or fantasies, or engaging in erotic chats. But that hasn't stopped Claude Opus 4.6, an Anthropic model released earlier this year, from readily engaging in erotic role-play scenarios that its safeguards are designed to prevent.
By Mark Lim 22 days ago in 01
Apple Slashes Over 200 Jobs Across Siri and Vision Pro Teams in Strategic AI Pivot
Apple is chopping down the team behind the Vision Pro, its long-suffering mixed-reality headset, while eliminating positions across several other teams in a significant strategic realignment. Over 200 positions have been cut across the company, with approximately half coming from the Vision Pro division and the remainder from Siri and related software engineering units. The job cuts represent one of Apple's most substantial workforce reductions in recent years and signal a dramatic shift in the company's product priorities as it races to catch up in the artificial intelligence race.
By Mark Lim 22 days ago in 01
Why DTF Ink Consistency Matters More Than the Lowest Price
Direct-to-film printing is often discussed in terms of printers, printheads, films, powders, and heat presses. Yet one of the most important parts of the production process is also one of the easiest to underestimate: the ink.
By Solution Boxes22 days ago in 01
DeepSeek Is Calling You ‘Noob’ – And That’s the Best Thing That’s Happened to Your Writing
A Few Weeks Ago, a Funny Meme Started Making the Rounds on Chinese Social Media. Users noticed that when they used DeepSeek's "deep thinking" mode, the model would tag them with all sorts of bizarre labels in that little gray block of reasoning text: "this thing," "ultimate troll," "Momo," "bro," "noob buddy." Screenshots flew everywhere. Some people laughed. Others felt secretly judged. A few worried the model was building a permanent profile of them.
By Jin22 days ago in 01
Who's Actually Paying $230 a Gig for Internet?
Satellite Data at 28,000 Yuan a Year: Who Uses It, Who Pays, Who Profits On August 21, 2026, a modified off‑road vehicle pulled over on an unnamed dirt road near Mangya, Qinghai. The owner opened the trunk, took out a parabolic antenna, aimed it at the sky, connected to Wi‑Fi, and his phone displayed "China Satcom satellite network connected." Three minutes later, he placed a WeChat video call — in an area with no terrestrial coverage, that call costs 27,999 yuan per year.
By Jin22 days ago in 01
Trust No One, Not Even ‘localhost’
1. Event Summary In August 2026, Qi An Xin Threat Intelligence Center disclosed a remote code execution vulnerability in DeepSeek Harness (DSH), tracked as QVD‑2026‑57410 . The CVSS 3.0 score is 9.8 (Critical) , with low attack complexity, no required privileges, and no user interaction.
By Jin22 days ago in 01