excited that @sarahookr (ceo of @adaption_ai) is joining us at @aiDotEngineer singapore! sara's done amazing work for the ai community, from her roles as vp of research at @cohere and research work at google brain. this one is personal, as i've known sara for over a decade. back when i was still in the bay area, i was volunteering as a pro bono data analyst for a nonprofit she started – to help under-resourced organizations use data for good. i worked directly on a few projects with her team, and what struck me even then was how incredibly sharp sara was, but also how at the heart of everything she does is real impact for the world. since then, sara's done amazing work: – from leading cohere's research lab and shipping multilingual models to 55+ languages – to authoring "the hardware lottery" (one of the most cited papers on why ideas in ai win or lose based on hardware, not merit) – to now building adaption labs around a thesis the industry desperately needs to hear – the future of ai isn't about building bigger models, but about building systems that can learn and adapt continuously so excited to have sara there for ai.engineer/singapore from may 15-17! @swyx @agrimsingh @aimuggle @unprofeshme @ivanleomk
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Lenders Prioritize Fees Over Founder Success and Growth
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Why aren’t these lenders doing that?
— 🖤 Christine (@christinelu) 3 avril 2026
Because they’re fee seeking mfers who don’t know how to start and grow a small business. Much easier to get rich off fees from gatekeeping the capital than actual align with a founders success. pic.twitter.com/n1PcAs9fhrWhy aren’t these lenders doing that? Because they’re fee seeking mfers who don’t know how to start and grow a small business. Much easier to get rich off fees from gatekeeping the capital than actual align with a founders success.
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Marc Andreessen’s 2026 AI Thesis: Agents and Open Source
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🆕 Marc Andreessen’s 2026 AI Thesis: Agents, Open Source, and Why This Time Is Differenthttps://t.co/wmu0s7vyLn@pmarca of @a16z says AI people keep swinging between utopian and apocalyptic for one simple reason: this field has been “almost here” for 80 years. But now, the… pic.twitter.com/kYnLP5jZh1
— Latent.Space (@latentspacepod) 3 avril 2026🆕 Marc Andreessen’s 2026 AI Thesis: Agents, Open Source, and Why This Time Is Different latent.space/p/pmarca @pmarca of @a16z says AI people keep swinging between utopian and apocalyptic for one simple reason: this field has been “almost here” for 80 years. But now, the breakthroughs are no longer theoretical. Reasoning, coding, agents, and self-improvement are all starting to work at once. This episode goes deep on AI winters, OpenAI + OpenClaw, infrastructure overbuild risk, proof-of-human, why software may soon be written mostly for bots, and why the real bottleneck may be society adopting AI rather than the models improving.
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Hybrid VC Approach to Construction Factoring Opportunity
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The current construction factoring space is a bunch of gross loan sharks with linkedin profiles.
— 🖤 Christine (@christinelu) 3 avril 2026
There’s an opportunity for a hybrid VC approach where you early invest in these experienced founders and take an equity stake while financing their POs with founder friendly terms. pic.twitter.com/Atq79SLxVAThe current construction factoring space is a bunch of gross loan sharks with linkedin profiles. There’s an opportunity for a hybrid VC approach where you early invest in these experienced founders and take an equity stake while financing their POs with founder friendly terms.
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AI Strategy Quietly Making Best People Worse At Jobs
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#AI Strategy Is Quietly Making The Best People Worse At Their Jobs
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Harrison Chase and MongoDB CEO discuss enterprise agents at Interrupt
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Join @hwchase17 and Chirantan "CJ" Desai, CEO of @MongoDB for a fireside chat at Interrupt — May 13-14 in San Francisco. MongoDB is the company behind one of the most widely used databases for modern applications — used by thousands of teams to power everything from real-time analytics to AI-native workloads. At Interrupt, Harrison and CJ will chat about how teams are building agents at the world's largest enterprises, and what's next for the space. Get your tickets: interrupt.langchain.com/
→ View original post on X — @langchain, 2026-04-03 16:47 UTC
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SBA Loan Requirements Block Startup Funding Access
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Why don’t they apply for an SBA loan?
— 🖤 Christine (@christinelu) 3 avril 2026
Because even as a startup founded by a 2nd generation construction entrepreneur with a pipeline of jobs, you still need to have at least 3 years of tax returns to qualify.
So, it’s 3 years of predatory lending if you can survive that. pic.twitter.com/k6YODBQpK5Why don’t they apply for an SBA loan? Because even as a startup founded by a 2nd generation construction entrepreneur with a pipeline of jobs, you still need to have at least 3 years of tax returns to qualify. So, it’s 3 years of predatory lending if you can survive that.
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Business Professionals Build First AI Agents in Mastermind Course
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I just helped hundreds of business professionals build their first AI agents in my AI Agent Mastermind. Here are five built by people who had never opened a terminal before this week: 1️⃣ A personalized morning brief. She took my original morning brief setup, remixed it with global news, local news from Sweden, a Linear ticket queue, a joke of the day for the family breakfast table, and a motivation quote based on business needs. 2️⃣ Someone who had never touched a command window used PowerShell and natural language to solve a screenshot clipping issue they had been working around for months. 3️⃣ A Spanish learning app called Vamanos, built on a "carefully negotiated token schedule" so it does not eat into her consulting work. Cultural context profiles for herself and her husband, token alerts so Claude can parent her if she goes off the rails, and Easter eggs with advice from my course sprinkled throughout. She built it for a trip she is taking next year. Sorry Duolingo. 4️⃣ A Google Commute Agent. Built because Google Calendar has no built-in way to book meetings back to back with distance awareness. It scans for events with physical addresses, calculates real drive time via Google Maps API, and automatically adds commute and parking buffer blocks around each one. 5️⃣ A weekly research briefing delivered to Gmail, connected to Perplexity for live web research, with a clickable macOS desktop app for whenever she wants to run it outside the schedule. These are all solving problems that had been annoying someone for months or years, or ways to show up more fully in their lives. It’s weirdly addictive to watch. We’re opening a second cohort soon. Enrollment will be extremely limited, and it’ll only be open to people on the waitlist. Join the waitlist here: joinaiagentmastermind.com
→ View original post on X — @alliekmiller, 2026-04-03 16:28 UTC
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Cohere and Microsoft discuss enterprise AI acceleration on Model Mondays
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How can enterprises accelerate decision-making and improve efficiency? We're joining @Microsoft's Model Mondays on April 6th to discuss how AI can help you: 🌎 Drive real-world enterprise value 💡 Surface precise, verifiable insights 📌 Use Microsoft Azure and Cohere enterprise models to accelerate your AI journey
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Economists Finally Acknowledge AI Threat to Employment
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nytimes.com/2026/04/03/busin… [Translated from EN to English]
→ View original post on X — @mfordfuture, 2026-04-03 16:10 UTC