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Gradient Flow @gradientflow.com · Jul 8
From #AI Hype to Business Reality: The 2025 Enterprise Playbook
🎯 The AI industry has reached an inflection point where practical implementation and domain expertise matter more than access to cutting-edge models
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Your AI playbook for the rest of 2025
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The Great Relaxation 🛑 Analyzing the Trump administration's New AI Chip (H200) Export Policies to #China
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Humanoid Robots: Hype vs. Reality
YouTube video by Gradient Flow
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January 18, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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Homecoming scenes: Bob Weir at Civic Center Plaza
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Bobby Weir Homecoming
YouTube video by B Lorica
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January 17, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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The Great Relaxation: Analyzing the New H200 Chip Export Policies
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRhE...
Humanoid Robots: Hype vs. Reality
YouTube video by Gradient Flow
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January 17, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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Why do guardrails fail? Because they work on the surface
✅ Ben Luria of Hirundo on Behavioral unlearning vs data unlearning: one targets risky *traits* (bias, jailbreakability), the other targets specific *knowledge* (PII, copyrighted text, secrets)
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Teaching AI How to Forget
Ben Luria on Unlearning, Guardrails, Jailbreaks, and Enterprise Trust.
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January 16, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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Here’s hoping that Confer succeeds, and influences how AI chatbots are designed!

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Confessions to a data lake
I’ve been building Confer: end-to-end encryption for AI chats. With Confer, your conversations are encrypted so that nobody else can see them. Confer can’t read them, train on them, or hand them over ...
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January 15, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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Where AI in Finance Is Headed in 2026 🧭 Why Financial AI is Moving from "General" to "Specialized"
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Emerging AI patterns in finance (what to watch in 2026)
Put data, machine learning, and AI to work.
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January 15, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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Why Guardrails Aren't Enough 🛑 Ben Luria of Hirundo on The Case for Machine Unlearning
🙌 Why just block bad AI outputs when you can remove the problem at the source?
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Teaching AI How to Forget
Ben Luria on Unlearning, Guardrails, Jailbreaks, and Enterprise Trust.
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January 15, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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The 2026 Financial AI Stack: Hybrid, Modular, and Auditable
🎯 Financial institutions are moving toward hybrid architectures where LLMs act as the reasoning layer, but classical optimizers and statistical models still handle risk and execution
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Emerging AI patterns in finance (what to watch in 2026)
Put data, machine learning, and AI to work.
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January 14, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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📈 Where AI in Finance Is Headed in 2026
#AI #Finance #Fintech
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Emerging AI patterns in finance (what to watch in 2026)
Put data, machine learning, and AI to work.
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January 14, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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State of Presidential Pardons: An Entertaining and depressing overview youtu.be/7Bf1YQbfgiY?...
Trump's Unstoppable Pardon Power, Explained | PTFO
YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
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January 13, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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🆕 Financial AI Trends for 2026: From Foundation Models to Compliance-as-Code to ... Turning Unstructured Text into Tradable Signals
#AI #Finance #Fintech #QuantFinance
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Emerging AI patterns in finance (what to watch in 2026)
Put data, machine learning, and AI to work.
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January 13, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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Agent Optimization: what you need to know
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Agent workflows: stop guessing, start measuring
Put data, machine learning, and AI to work.
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January 12, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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Are we over-emphasizing humanoids at the expense of other adaptive robotics? We dive into:
1️⃣ Why Humanoid Robots Still Struggle in Real Environments (Key Takeaways from CES 2026)
2️⃣ The H200 Pivot 🇺🇸🇨🇳 Analyzing the Relaxation of AI Chip Export Controls
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRhE...
Humanoid Robots: Hype vs. Reality
YouTube video by Gradient Flow
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January 12, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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Altadena is not for sale 🎬
🛑 a beautiful short documentary by Ondi Timoner (and @latimes.com)
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All the Walls Came Down
YouTube video by Los Angeles Times
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January 11, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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What does the future of robotics, automation and global trade look like? Evangelos Simoudis and I discuss:
1️⃣ Humanoids and Zonal Architectures: Key Takeaways from CES 2026
2️⃣ The H200 Pivot 🇺🇸🇨🇳 Analyzing the Relaxation of AI Chip Export Controls
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRhE...
Humanoid Robots: Hype vs. Reality
YouTube video by Gradient Flow
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January 11, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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“For as much innovation there is, I’d like to have a little more preservation.” 🎸John Mayer

Amen!

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John Mayer, McG on why they purchased Henson Studios and what the future holds
YouTube video by Los Angeles Times
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January 11, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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Agent Optimization Unpacked
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Agent workflows: stop guessing, start measuring
Put data, machine learning, and AI to work.
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January 11, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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Spotted in the Mission District #SanFrancisco
📣 Venezuela and ICE protests
January 10, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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🆕 Is the "humanoid takeover" finally here, or is it just investor hype? We explore:
╍ The Rise of Adaptive Robots: Robotics Trends from the CES Floor
╍ Silicon Diplomacy: The Geopolitical Fallout of New Nvidia H200 Export Policies
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRhE...
Humanoid Robots: Hype vs. Reality
YouTube video by Gradient Flow
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January 10, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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Matthew Glickman (Genesis Computing) about why the “last 10%” of enterprise AI is reliability, not demos - and why data engineering is the best place to start
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The Junior Data Engineer is Now an AI Agent
Matthew Glickman on Data Engineering Automation, Agent Workflows, Confidence Checks, Institutional Knowledge.
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January 9, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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Fire-proof homes in Southern California

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Can You Build a Fire-Proof Home? | PBS SoCal
YouTube video by PBS SoCal
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January 9, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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DHS is wrong for rushing to judgement
👀 An investigation is warranted based on this @nytimes.com video analysis from several angles www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.
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January 8, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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Agent Optimization Unpacked
🗃️ From Prompt Tweaks to Platform Engineering
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Agent workflows: stop guessing, start measuring
Put data, machine learning, and AI to work.
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January 8, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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Supercharging Data Teams
✔ Matt Glickman of Genesis Computing on Why AI is a Capability Expander, Not a Replacement
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The Junior Data Engineer is Now an AI Agent
Matthew Glickman on Data Engineering Automation, Agent Workflows, Confidence Checks, Institutional Knowledge.
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January 8, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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Agent Optimization Isn't About Smarter Models 👀 It's About Better Systems
🎯 Stop Guessing: The Data-Driven Way to Optimize Agents
👉 gradientflow.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Agent workflows: stop guessing, start measuring
Put data, machine learning, and AI to work.
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January 7, 2026 at 3:39 PM