fine-tuned distillation: The Pattern Behind the Best Agents This Quarter
Beyond the launch posts, Phi-4 is reshaping how founders approach onboarding. We talked to the people actually using it in production.
Daniel Okafor3 min read
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The Week in AI: Command R+ 2, agent mode, and a New computer-use agents
The interesting story is not the demo. It is the second month, when RAG-as-a-service either earns its keep or gets quietly rolled back.
Yuki Tanabe3 min read
ChatGPT Canvas Quietly Becomes the Default Copilot for sales teams
The interesting story is not the demo. It is the second month, when fine-tuned distillation either earns its keep or gets quietly rolled back.
Mira Castellanos3 min read
LLMs·
Open Weights, Closed Margins: Reading Phi-4
Beyond the launch posts, Command R+ 2 is reshaping how operators approach incident response. We talked to the people actually using it in production.
Yuki Tanabe3 min read
Why expense reporting Is the Highest-ROI AI Project Right Now
HubSpot is the latest in a string of teams treating small-model orchestration as the default, not the experiment. Here is what they got right — and what they are still figuring out.
Priya Raman3 min read
LLMs·
Inflection Trims the Stack: Claude 4.5 Sonnet and the Cost Curve
The interesting story is not the demo. It is the second month, when structured outputs either earns its keep or gets quietly rolled back.
Daniel Okafor3 min read
Granola Adds memory, and the Workflow Math Changes
Beyond the launch posts, DeepSeek V4 is reshaping how researchers approach code review. We talked to the people actually using it in production.
Yuki Tanabe3 min read
The Honest ROI Story Behind Stripe's AI Bet
HubSpot is the latest in a string of teams treating evals-first development as the default, not the experiment. Here is what they got right — and what they are still figuring out.
Yuki Tanabe3 min read
When to Replace research synthesis With an Agent — and When Not To
The interesting story is not the demo. It is the second month, when computer-use agents either earns its keep or gets quietly rolled back.
Mira Castellanos3 min read