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We help AI startup founders and GTM teams make sharper market decisions with research-backed analysis, competitive intelligence and execution-focused briefs.
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We help AI startup founders and GTM teams make sharper market decisions with research-backed analysis, competitive intelligence and execution-focused briefs.
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The Samora AI Story: The Underpaid Rumour
Social media loves a scandal about underpaid tech workers. We dive into the viral outrage surrounding Y Combinator backed Samora AI to see if they really exploit their interns or if the internet just failed at basic math.
The Samora AI Story: The Underpaid Rumour
Social media loves a scandal about underpaid tech workers. We dive into the viral outrage surrounding Y Combinator backed Samora AI to see if they really exploit their interns or if the internet just failed at basic math.
Bye Bye Llama, Hello Muse Spark
Meta is betting that social context beats raw parameters, pivoting away from its open-source legacy to win the AI platform war through proprietary "personal superintelligence."
The AI That Was Too Dangerous to Ship: Inside the 244-Page Claude Mythos System Card
Anthropic just built an AI so powerful they are refusing to release it to the public. I spent the weekend digging through their massive 244-page System Card, and between the autonomous zero-day exploits, the sandbox prison breaks, and the fact that they hired a clinical psychiatrist to evaluate the model’s mental health, we are officially living in a sci-fi thriller. Here is what is genuinely surprising, and what it means for the market.
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Apr 13, 2026•Jin•4 min read
The Samora AI Story: The Underpaid Rumour
Social media loves a scandal about underpaid tech workers. We dive into the viral outrage surrounding Y Combinator backed Samora AI to see if they really exploit their interns or if the internet just failed at basic math.
Apr 9, 2026•Jin•
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