Daily Digest - 2026-08-18

Why AI application startups have to build their own model fine-tuning factories to survive in the enterprise. Decagon AI shows that selling agents to large enterprises requires custom workflows that frontier models can't handle alone.

Daily Digest - 2026-08-17

A breakdown of the six components you need to build a reliable agent harness. The harness is the software layer between the model and the actual work.

Daily Digest - 2026-08-16

How Wall Street is turning AI data centers into securitized assets like power plants. Nvidia signed MOUs with Apollo, BlackRock, and Blackstone to raise $500 billion for AI data centers.

Lessons from Mia Glaese

As Vice President of Research at OpenAI, Mia Glaese leads teams focused on model alignment, human data, and capability evaluations.

Lessons from Amanda Kahlow

Amanda Kahlow founded 6sense and grew it past $100 million in revenue before taking a five year break. She recently returned to build 1mind, a startup replacing traditional sales funnels with conversational AI agents.

Lessons from Felix Rieseberg

Felix Rieseberg leads engineering for Anthropic's Claude Cowork and Claude Code Desktop, drawing on his background as a core maintainer of the Electron framework.

Lessons from Joshua Achiam

Joshua Achiam is an AI researcher who served as OpenAI's Head of Mission Alignment before becoming the company's Chief Futurist.

Lessons from Walden Yan

Walden Yan co founded Cognition AI, the company behind the autonomous coding agent Devin. A former competitive programming champion, he helped shift AI coding from simple text completion to asynchronous background execution.

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