AI Startups
578% Revenue Growth? Let's Actually Look Under the Hood of This AI Darling
A tiny AI company posting 578% revenue growth sounds like a headline worth celebrating. But before you break out the champagne, let's ask the questions the press release conveniently skipped.
Dispatch desk · May 26, 2026
Large Language Models
I Fine-Tuned an LLM Into C-3PO to Find the Best Way to Actually Inject a Persona
A controlled fine-tuning experiment across three data formats reveals that how you structure persona training data matters more than how much you know about the character—and the results are counterintuitive.
Dispatch desk · May 25, 2026
AI Startups
The ARR Shell Game: How AI Startups Are Cooking Their Revenue Books
AI startups are quietly substituting 'contracted ARR' for actual revenue in their public announcements—and the biggest VC funds know exactly what's happening. Here's how the shell game works and what the numbers actually mean.
Dispatch desk · May 25, 2026
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AI Hardware
Nvidia's Chokehold on AI: How a Graphics Card Company Became the Infrastructure Behind Everything That Matters
Nvidia didn't plan to own AI infrastructure—it just happened to build the right parallel math hardware fifteen years before anyone needed it at scale. Here's what actually explains the moat, and where it's genuinely vulnerable.
Dispatch desk · May 25, 2026
AI Startups
AI/R Wants to Be Your AI Budget Watchdog—Here's Why That's Actually Harder Than It Sounds
AI/R is launching a platform to give enterprises actual visibility into their AI spending—a problem that sounds boring until you realize most organizations have no idea what they're actually spending or whether it's working.
Dispatch desk · May 25, 2026