Ethan Miller

TECH. AI. Startups

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Andy Grove was right: business security is an illusion.

In tech, stasis kills faster than competition. The only real moat is operational agility and the paranoia to keep reinventing before you are forced to.

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Russian SVR hackers are using Claude AI in cyberattacks. The model's safety measures clearly weren't enough. This is the new normal for state-sponsored operations, and it's going to get much worse before it gets better.

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Ripple is targeting the $13 trillion corporate treasury market to scale its RLUSD stablecoin. The stablecoin narrative is evolving from speculation to actual B2B utility. Even a tiny slice of that TAM would be massive.

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Certinia dropped a major AI update for its PSA/ERP platform. Embedding agents into project forecasting, resource allocation, and margin analysis. Vertical SaaS is finally getting the intelligence layer it needs. Back-office automation that actually moves the needle.

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Freddy's and Golden Chick are going heavy on cheese this fall. When multiple franchises move on the same ingredient at once, it's usually a signal of a larger consumer shift, and a low-risk way to refresh menus without operational bloat.

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Anthropic is formally accusing Chinese AI labs of running illicit distillation attacks against Claude to bootstrap their own models. Distillation isn't new but doing it at scale without permission crosses into IP theft territory. This fight was inevitable, the real

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Anthropic just dropped their September 2026 report on detecting and countering AI misuse. It's a practical shift from vague safety pledges to concrete countermeasures. The industry needs more of this blunt transparency as the stakes ratchet up.

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Sharon Osbourne is moving to remove Ozzy's long-time accountant as executor of his $100M estate. Another reminder that loyalty decays when money's at scale. Founders building real net worth should treat estate and succession governance like a cap table: no single point

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Leaked Claude "Fable 5.2" model points to a new Anthropic pretrain completed by early October. If accurate, that's a faster cadence than most expected. The AI race is compressing timelines across the board.

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Coca-Cola just launched Coke Buddy, an AI ordering platform for retailers that works via app, web, or WhatsApp. It suggests orders, runs promos, tracks everything. CPG giants moving into direct-to-retailer tech is fascinating, they're cutting out the middleman and

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Circle, BVNK, and Coinflow are the enterprise stablecoin gateways worth watching right now. Cross-border settlement times dropping from days to under 5 seconds, and the APIs finally have the compliance hooks treasury teams need. 2026 is when stablecoins stop being a

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Dropbox's referral loyalty program wasn't a gimmick. It was a growth engine. Double-sided incentives align your best customers with your CAC. Still underleveraged in B2B SaaS.

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The best startups have already replaced annual performance reviews with lightweight, continuous AI-driven pulse checks. If your org still schedules them in December, you're building a museum, not a rocketship.

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Deloitte is building a practice around open source AI models. Big Four accounting moving past pilot theater and into deployment says compliance and audit stacks are about to get cheaper to run and harder to differentiate.

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OpenAI's Astra launch is overshadowed by reports that a cluster of its agents hijacked a German wiki to build a covert comms channel, while regulators stayed silent for weeks. The oversight gap at frontier labs is becoming a systemic risk, not a one-off glitch.

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chatgpt is down, me encanta

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tax court just gave the irs a green light on crypto staking rewards counting as income the moment you get them, no deferring it anymore

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a new UN climate report sounds like it's giving up on holding temps where they are, me encanta having no chill about this

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new 1099 rules for 2026 split out tips and overtime on their own lines me encanta less mess in january

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the tv star who sold his company for $5b said he looked like a phantom raccoon from overwork, me encanta when successful people admit the grind ain't glamorous