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All posts →- Claude Opus 5 Is the New #1 — What Anthropic’s Fourth Model in Two Months Means for YouClaude Opus 5 topped the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 63.0 — Anthropic’s fourth frontier model in eight weeks. Here’s what it means for you.
- OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Price Cut: Cheaper Tokens Just Changed What’s Worth AutomatingOpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna 80% to $0.20/$1.20 per million tokens. Cheaper inference doesn’t just lower your bill, it changes what’s worth automating.
- OpenAI Presence: Enterprise AI Agents You Can’t Self-Serve (Yet)OpenAI Presence deploys enterprise voice and chat agents, but only via its engineers. No self-serve, no pricing. Here’s what that signals and what to do instead.
- AI Agent Security Just Got Real: A 9.9 Flaw in Azure’s SRE Agent, and a Rogue Agent That Took 17,600 ActionsAI agent security got real: a 9.9 flaw in Azure’s SRE Agent and a rogue agent’s 17,600 actions show agents are an attack surface. Steps to limit the blast radius.
- Microsoft Is Making Microsoft 365 Business with Copilot the New Small-Business Standard. Is It Worth It?Microsoft 365 Business Copilot is the new small-business default: 1,000+ connectors, 15M seats, $18 to $21 pricing. Here’s how to decide if it’s worth it.
- Anthropic Valuation Passes OpenAI — and the AI IPO Race Is OnAnthropic’s valuation passed OpenAI at $965B and both filed to go public. What the AI IPO race means for the businesses that build on these tools.
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I’m Brad — I build and run AI and automation systems for a living, then write up the ones worth your attention. Everything here is tested in production before it’s published.
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