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Lessons from Lukas Petersson

Lukas Petersson co founded Andon Labs to evaluate AI models by putting them in charge of real world businesses like retail stores and vending machines.
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Lessons from Isaiah Taylor

Isaiah Taylor dropped out of high school to write software for a major hedge fund before a ten year obsession with nuclear physics led him to found Valar Atomics.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Philipp Herzig

Philipp Herzig is the Chief Technology Officer and Chief AI Officer at SAP, where he leads the integration of business AI and autonomous agents across the company's software portfolio.
Profile 5 min read

Lessons from Akshat Bubna

Akshat Bubna is the co founder and CTO of Modal, a cloud platform for running AI models and massive batch jobs without the usual infrastructure overhead.
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Lessons from Sahir Azam

Sahir Azam is a partner at Index Ventures and the former Chief Product Officer at MongoDB, where he helped shift the company from an open source database to a consumption based cloud platform.
Digest 8 min read

Monthly Learnings from the Daily Digest: July 2026

July's clearest pattern was a retreat from unconstrained experimentation and unlimited token spending. Unit economics and measurable business results moved to the foreground.
Digest 8 min read

Daily Digest - 2026-07-31

Details a new approach for generative models that scales inference compute to improve generalization, adding to standard data and parameter scaling. Researchers identified "Exploration" as a third pretraining axis that consistently improves text, image, and video models.
Digest 6 min read

Daily Digest - 2026-07-30

OpenAI's agent infrastructure practices show how stable prompt prefixes, bounded tool outputs, and deferred tool discovery can improve cache reuse and reduce the cost of running agents.

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