Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Gio Valiante

Gio Valiante is a performance psychologist who has coached top PGA Tour golfers and worked at Point72 Asset Management. His mastery-versus-ego framework examines how high performers can overcome fear of humiliation, build resilience, and execute under pressure without fixating on outcomes.
Research Explainers 8 min read

Continuous Scoring Turns Verification Into a New AI Scaling Axis

By replacing discrete judgments with continuous probabilistic scoring, researchers show how verification can improve agent performance without additional training. This explainer examines why better scoring may become a distinct scaling axis alongside model size, inference compute, and data.
Digest 7 min read

Daily Digest - 2026-07-07

Uber found its strongest AI use cases by pairing engineers with domain experts and rebuilding complete workflows. The approach sharply reduced planning and finance cycle times while exposing approvals and legacy tools that no longer added value.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Arvind Jain

Arvind Jain is founder and CEO of Glean, a Rubrik co-founder, and a former distinguished engineer at Google. His enterprise-search work illuminates how data-driven systems, fast execution, and scalable software help employees navigate internal company knowledge with AI assistants.
Digest 7 min read

Daily Digest - 2026-07-06

AI advantage is moving beyond raw model capability toward hidden reasoning states, modular post-training stacks, and continuous agent learning. Builders who understand these layers can improve performance, lower dependence on closed models, and turn production evidence into better systems.
Digest 8 min read

Daily Digest - 2026-07-05

Autonomous agents become useful only when they can identify work, act safely, and prove that real-world changes occurred. Proactive monitoring and state-aware evaluation offer a practical path beyond prompt-driven assistants and static text grading.
Digest 6 min read

Monthly Learnings from the Daily Digest: June 2026

June moved the AI conversation from raw model capability to the machinery required for reliable operation: inference economics, agent loops, verification gates, routing, budgets, and fallbacks. Closed-API dependency also became a concrete continuity risk.
Digest 6 min read

Daily Digest - 2026-07-04

Concentrated equities, record passive flows, and elevated household ownership make market structure more decisive than macro headlines. Clear judgment now depends on seeing the forces that shape an environment while filtering noise that weakens conviction.

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