7 Smart Plug Automations That Cut Energy Use and Strengthen Home Security

Smart Plug Automation: 7 High-Impact Uses to Save Energy and Boost Home Security For less than the cost of a few coffees, a smart plug can turn ordinary appliances into scheduled, voice-controlled safety and energy tools. A smart plug is simply a networked switch — but paired with a voice assistant, presence sensor, or automation […]

Windows 11 Home vs Pro: Which Edition Should Your Business Choose?

Windows 11 Home vs Pro: Which edition should your business—or you—pick? TL;DR: Pick Windows 11 Home for casual users and budget builds; pick Windows 11 Pro for IT, developers, and businesses that need centralized control, BitLocker-level encryption and built‑in virtualization. Windows 11 Home gives you the modern Windows experience for browsing, streaming and everyday work. […]

AI Giants Face Reckoning: Q4 Earnings Will Decide If AI Capex Pays Off

AI giants face a reckoning after record spending — the earnings season that will decide the AI rally Wall Street has bet heavily on AI. With global equities trading at rich multiples that assume continued growth, the Q4 2025 earnings season will show whether billions of dollars in AI capex turn into real profits — […]

AI-Branded Presales and Meme Token Liquidity Risks: A Treasury Due-Diligence Guide

AI-Branded Presales, Meme Chaos, and What Treasuries Should Demand Sponsored: This piece is marked as sponsored content. The publisher does not endorse investments. Conduct independent research and consult legal and financial advisors before acting. Executive summary Three concurrent forces shaped January’s headlines: Coinbase publicly opposed a Senate crypto bill, a high-profile meme token experienced rapid […]

Generative AI and Synthetic‑Media Harm: An Executive Playbook for Managing Risk

When Generative AI Turns Traumatic: How Businesses Must Manage Synthetic‑Media Risk Public photos can become lifelong abuse assets. For executives, that is both a reputational and legal risk. Mara Wilson’s account of childhood images being repurposed into sexualized material is a clear, painful example of how visibility becomes vulnerability—now amplified by generative AI and synthetic […]

Runpod’s $120M Run Rate: Developer-First AI Infrastructure Built on Repurposed GPUs

Developer-First AI Infrastructure: Lessons from Runpod’s $120M Run Rate TL;DR: Runpod turned idle crypto GPUs into a developer-first AI cloud and reports a ~$120M revenue run rate and roughly 500,000 developer users. They grew by solving a painful developer experience, seeding product-market fit via Reddit/Discord, and bootstrapping to $1M ARR before raising a $20M seed […]

Fine‑Tuning AI Agents vs RAG: A Practical Ladder for High‑Stakes Enterprise Automation

TL;DR Prompting and RAG are fast ways to prototype AI agents—but roughly 25% of high‑stakes business use cases need deeper fine‑tuning to meet safety, accuracy, and auditability targets. Progression that works: Supervised Fine‑Tuning (SFT) → preference methods (DPO/PPO) → group/sequence optimizers (GRPO/DAPO/GSPO). Each step adds cost and complexity but often unlocks the last 10–20% of […]

Late Entry to Regional Champion: LoRA LLM Fine‑Tuning Lessons from AWS AI League ASEAN

From late entry to regional champion: fine‑tuning LLMs and business lessons from the AWS AI League ASEAN finals Blix D. Foryasen showed that championships aren’t won by raw compute alone. Arriving late to the AWS AI League ASEAN, he turned careful data design, surgical hyperparameter sweeps and an adapter‑based tuning strategy into a regional win […]