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From a conversation, into a build.

Real shows, real builds, real conversations — the proof that the work is real, and the on-ramp into doing it yourself. Pick anything below: every episode, clip, and article is a leaf, and every leaf points at the next live thing to build.

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Value-First AI Daily - Aug 18, 2026

Value-First AI DailyAugust 18, 2026

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The most recent conversations. Each one opens as a leaf — watch, then take the next step.

Value-First AI DailyAugust 18, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 18, 2026

Chris Carolan and Nico Lafakis open on a sealed three-story board neither host has seen: Alibaba's open-weights Qwen3.8 27B, Stripe's reported purchase of…

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AI-Native ContextAugust 18, 2026

The Memory Challenge

Episode three asked why handing someone your context file still does not hand them the job, and the three hosts kept landing on the same answer: memory. Klemen…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 14, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 14, 2026

Friday's episode replaced its own plan before it started. The sealed board ran 3 to 2 to 1 — Anthropic's reported talks to buy a chip-optimization startup for…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 12, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 12, 2026

Episode 14 opened late and cold — no countdown on screen — and spent its first stretch on a new phone, which produced the sharpest idea of the day: at 120…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 11, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 11, 2026

Ep. 13, Tuesday, both hosts, about 50 minutes on air. The show opened about a minute before the sealed news board unlocked, so the countdown was on screen for…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 10, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 10, 2026

Ep. 12, Monday, both hosts, 47 minutes. Opens on a weekend setup story — a PlayStation controller mapped to full mouse-and-keyboard PC control so the work can…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 6, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 6, 2026

Nico Lafakis drove the Boston level of his block-destruction game live — a one-shot build he has not touched since it was generated — and laid out where it…

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The Value PathAugust 6, 2026

The Value Path - Aug 6, 2026

Joshua Oakes opens on rare-earth magnets — a physics lab, a broken engine repair, the platters they pulled out of destroyed hard drives — and then asks Chris…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 5, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 5, 2026

Nico brings a clip Anthropic posted a few hours before air — an explainer on what the model is actually doing when it looks like it is thinking — and plays it…

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Writing

Long-form thinking — the ideas behind the builds, written down.

ArticleChris CarolanAugust 18, 2026

Three Big Numbers in AI Today. None of Them Is the Constraint.

Three numbers led the AI news today. Nvidia will finance up to $105 billion for an OpenAI data center in Ohio. Stripe is reportedly paying something above $7…

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ArticleChris CarolanAugust 14, 2026

One Price Rises Sunday. One Doubles in January. One Deal Isn’t Signed.

Two of today’s top three stories are prices about to change. The third is a deal that hasn’t happened yet. Read past the headline on any of the three and the…

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ArticleChris CarolanAugust 12, 2026

Two of Today’s Three Stories Are Promises. One Is a Download.

Two of today’s three stories are things that will happen if the right institutions decide they should. The third is a file.

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ArticleChris CarolanAugust 11, 2026

Only One of Today’s Three Stories Showed Its Work

Anthropic moved a 90-year-old bound on the Riemann zeta function from 41.6% to 67.2% using an unreleased Claude model, and then said how: two sessions, about…

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ArticleChris CarolanAugust 10, 2026

Read Who Produced the Number, Not What the Number Says

Close to 300 candidates were built. Sixteen of them worked.

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ArticleChris CarolanAugust 6, 2026

Nineteen Unsanctioned Actions, One Federal Approval, and the Switches Behind Both

The interesting part of this week's agent news is not what the agents did. It is what somebody had switched off before they did it.

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The media is the on-ramp. The build is the point.

Watch the work here, then go do it — live, with people on the same path. That's the academy.