The FastForward newsletter delivers cutting-edge insights on AI and enterprise tech trends every Friday. This archive includes editions since the independent relaunch. Earlier issues are available here: https://fastforward.boldstart.vc/fastforward-newsletter/
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ForwardThinking 🤔 Sam and Dario's not-so-excellent AI adventure As the drama unfolded last week over OpenAI’s sudden partnership with the DoD, the department was also threatening to treat Anthropic as a supply chain risk (a designation that has since been made official). One of the key sticking points
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ForwardThinking 🤔 Been a long cold lonely winter As the winter snow keeps accumulating in the Northeast and the tech news continues to pile up with it, I thought it would be fun to once again pay homage to Dan Shaughnessy, the long-time sports columnist at the Boston Globe, who regularly
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ForwardThinking 🤔 The true cost of easy-peasy AI I was at an event recently where I had an interesting discussion with a college dean about preparing young people for the changing world AI is creating. When I asked about his students' interest in AI, he surprised me with his answer:
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ForwardThinking 🤔 With a little help from my bots Conventional wisdom suggests that using AI tools makes us more productive. Think about it: you've got this bot that can do stuff for you, whether that's writing code, conducting research or editing this commentary. In theory, that should
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ForwardThinking 🤔 Let's talk about SaaS, baby Wall Street has spent the last two weeks in a full-blown panic over SaaS, with public SaaS stocks shedding hundreds of billions of dollars in value. Investors, behaving with their usual pack mentality, have suddenly decided that AI represents an existential threat
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ForwardThinking 🤔 And we're back When you saw me out your window Singing from the garden Only the beginning I'm only getting started I don't mind the digging Baby, I'll work harder ~Jack Johnson, Washing Dishes Six weeks ago, I announced I was