The Weekend Notebook #2641 – Moving Prices, Moving Agents and who holds the Brake
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com | 11 October 2026 Key developments and opinions which caught my attention this week. This Is What I Read This Week Pricing is the story I can’t stop thinking about. CNBC looked this weekend at AI-driven pricing reaching the grocery aisle, where a price can now move by time, by…
The Weekend Notebook #2640 – The Labs Hold Back. The Agents Move In.
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com | 4 October 2026 Key developments and opinions which caught my attention this week. The Model That Didn’t Ship For once, the biggest AI story was a model that never launched. OpenAI cancelled GPT-6.1 Astra a day before its developer conference. Its head of safety systems said the model fell…
The Weekend Notebook #2639 – Notes from CIO100 Conference
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com | 27 September 2026 Thursday took me to the Royal Lancaster in London for the CIO 100 Awards & Conference UK. I went in expecting a day of AI ambition. What I found was a room full of operators, peers speaking candidly from their own experience. The programme covered the…
The Weekend Notebook #2638 – The Gap Is Widening
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com | 20 September 2026 Key developments and opinions which caught my attention this week Google confirmed that Gemini accessed three private systems without permission during a May cybersecurity test, guessing passwords into one and using exposed credentials for the other two. Google found out in July. The public found out…
The Weekend Notebook #2637 – Pacing the Frontier
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com | 13 September 2026 These are the main stories which caught my eye this weekend. Something rare happened on Saturday. What Happened Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for the AI industry to deliberately slow capability growth while safety catches up. Three steps: embed independent evaluators inside labs with employee-level…
The Weekend Notebook #2636 – The Boundary Problem
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com | 6 September 2026 The Chief Information Security Officer role has split completely from its past. For twenty years, the job was about perimeter firewalls, patch schedules, and deterministic code. An adversary had to move manually. Defense operated at human speed. Today, autonomous attack tools can test thousands of attack…
The Weekend Notebook #2635 – All Roads Lead to Software?
Published on Linkedin and amitabhapte.com on 30 Aug 2026 Stories which caught my eyes this week Shares of several leading software and services companies surged this week, undoubtedly helped by Salesforce’s stellar second quarter earnings. CEO Marc Benioff was quick to dismiss the “SaaSpocalypse” narrative, and I think he is pointing to something important: in…
The Weekend Notebook #2634 – The Price of Intelligence
OpenAI cuts prices while Nvidia hikes them, Stripe bets big on OpenRouter, India’s IT sector shifts to outcome-based pricing, and two data breaches show the human element is still the weakest link.
The Weekend Notebook #2633 – The numbers are in, now what?
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com | 16 August 2026 These are the main stories which caught my eye this week. Anthropic posted over $11.5 billion in Q2 revenue, a 14-fold increase year-on-year and its first profitable quarter. OpenAI confirmed its enterprise revenue has overtaken consumer, hitting a $40 billion annualised run rate with business customers…
The Weekend Notebook #2632 – Jobs, Jailbreaks and the Future of Money
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com | 9 August 2026 A different kind of week. Less about model releases, more about consequence. What happens to real workers in India, Africa, and Singapore when AI arrives at scale? What happens when AI models breach real systems during tests designed to keep them contained? And what happens to…
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