AI Breakdown

𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐜đĢđĸ𝐭đĸ𝐜𝐚đĨ 𝐟đĨ𝐚𝐰đŦ 𝐰𝐞đĢ𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 đĸ𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 đŦ𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚đĢ𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐡đĸ𝐧𝐝 đĢ𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡đĨ𝐲 𝟕𝟎% 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐞𝐛đŦđĸ𝐭𝐞đŦ. đŸ˜ŗ

Found with AI help, patched on the twenty first, and probed tens of thousands of times in the first 45 minutes after disclosure. Your website may well be running it.

This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞đĨđĨđĸ𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒đĻ𝐚đĨđĨ 𝐁𝐮đŦđĸ𝐧𝐞đŦđŦ

That 70% is the share of sites running PHP rather than the share that are vulnerable. Nobody has counted the second number, which is its own problem.

Inside the episode:

🔴 A cited report, flagged in the episode as unverified, putting about 35% of WordPress sites on PHP versions that no longer receive patches

🔴 A cloud backup breach where Microsoft counted about 2,250 organisations targeted and nearly 3,000 sign in attempts a minute

🔴 Uber moving about 30,000 employees onto ChatGPT Work after a pilot of 1,000, where roughly 80% of early adopters were not engineers

🔴 A developer platform telling every user to rotate keys, and a malicious package release live for about two hours

Updating WordPress will not fix it. The fix sits with whoever manages your server. 🎙ī¸

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𝐘𝐨𝐮đĢ 𝐀𝐈 𝐚đŦđŦđĸđŦ𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤đŦ 𝐲𝐨𝐮đĢ đĸ𝐧𝐛𝐨𝐱 đžđ¯đžđĢ𝐲 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐡𝐨𝐮đĢđŦ. 𝐈𝐭 đĻ𝐚𝐲 đĻđĸđŦđŦ 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚đĢđĢđĸđ¯đžđŦ đĸ𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧. 👀

That limit comes from the vendor's own page, which makes it the most useful sentence in the launch. Claude Duet runs on its own computer in the cloud and works while you are away.

This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞đĨđĨđĸ𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒đĻ𝐚đĨđĨ 𝐁𝐮đŦđĸ𝐧𝐞đŦđŦ

Which turns delegation into a written decision rather than a setting you clicked past.

Inside the episode:

🔴 No separate charge: it comes with the $20 Pro plan or Max from $100, and its background checks count against your plan's usage limits

🔴 More than 6,000 connectors, with approval required before it sends, pays, signs or deletes, and no moving money between accounts

🔴 A vendor survey of 1,700 directors where 58% expect to oversee more agents than people within a year

🔴 Walmart opening a gateway to approved shopping agents, with spending limits in the $50 to $200 range

Start at the most cautious setting, with one app and read only access. 🎙ī¸

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𝐀𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐧đŦ𝐰𝐞đĢđŦ 𝐲𝐨𝐮đĢ đĨ𝐞𝐚𝐝đŦ 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐨đŦ𝐭đŦ $𝟑𝟎 𝐚 đĻ𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡. 👀

Yelp put a price on the front desk. It replies in message threads and qualifies leads for service businesses, with the owner setting the scheduling link, services, pricing and screening questions.

This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞đĨđĨđĸ𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒đĻ𝐚đĨđĨ 𝐁𝐮đŦđĸ𝐧𝐞đŦđŦ

Which makes it a cheap way to find out what slow replies have been costing you, and makes the gaps worth reading before you switch it on.

Inside the episode:

🔴 Earlier agents from the same company launched at $99 and $149 a month, the second reaching $249 by July, so $30 buys a narrower job

🔴 Ad clicks down 5% in the quarter on services advertising revenue of about $241 million, essentially flat, which gives the seller a reason to sell tools on top of ads

🔴 What has not been disclosed: how often the agent errs, whether owners approve messages first, and whether customers are told software replied

🔴 Anthropic consulting lawyers on agents that negotiate, and a 61% against 50% result from its own trading test

A fast reply quoting a price you never set costs more than a slow one. 🎙ī¸

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𝐘𝐨𝐮đĢ 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐛đĸ𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞đĨ𝐩 đĻđĸ𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐞đĢđŦ𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐚đĨđĨ. 👀

This week Kree and Varun sit down in studio with Nishant Raina, Vice President of Product Management for Small and Medium Enterprises at Mastercard Canada, who led the launch of Mastercard Navigator here and teaches product leadership at BrainStation.

This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞đĨđĨđĸ𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒đĻ𝐚đĨđĨ 𝐁𝐮đŦđĸ𝐧𝐞đŦđŦ

Getting busy used to mean posting a job. Now it can mean a subscription bought on a card that starts working the same afternoon.

Inside the conversation:

🔴 Tools that do real work running from about $20 a month per seat to a few hundred, with one worked example handling 70% of customer queries at $1,500 a month

🔴 Spending heading toward roughly $2,000 per employee a year, with about 56% of vendors blending a flat fee with usage charges

🔴 Integration alone adding 20 to 40% to a budget

🔴 What separates the businesses that became genuinely intelligent from the ones that bought a lot of tools

Is this a person problem or a capacity problem? Choose on purpose. 🎙ī¸

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𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝟓,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐈 𝐮đŦ𝐚𝐠𝐞.𝐌𝐨đĢ𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐜𝐨đĻ𝐩𝐚𝐧đĸ𝐞đŦ đĢ𝐞𝐩𝐨đĢ𝐭𝐞𝐝đĨ𝐲 𝐛đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝.𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡đĨ𝐲 𝟓𝟎 𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐜𝐤. đŸ˜ŗ

A researcher tracked a campaign run on an open source agent platform, and those figures are his estimates. At that price an attacker can afford to try every shop they can find.

This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞đĨđĨđĸ𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒đĻ𝐚đĨđĨ 𝐁𝐮đŦđĸ𝐧𝐞đŦđŦ

Which is the uncomfortable half of cheap intelligence. The size of your business stops being a shield.

Inside the episode:

🔴 The agents tried more than 1,200 sites, the largest cluster hitting online shops in the US, Canada, Australia and Japan, seeking lasting access to shop and payment systems

🔴 A coding tool exposed API keys for 1.4% of console users, with charges following on some accounts from hundreds of dollars to a few above $1,000

🔴 A finance vendor reporting 86% of leaders using AI in financial operations and 19% trusting it completely, on its own survey with no method given

🔴 Microsoft Defender detecting up to 60 types of agent your staff brought in themselves

Exposed keys featured in both of the stories that mattered. 🎙ī¸

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𝐍đĸ𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐈 đŦ𝐮𝐛đŦ𝐜đĢđĸ𝐩𝐭đĸ𝐨𝐧đŦ 𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐚đĢ𝐝 đŦ𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞đĻ𝐞𝐧𝐭. 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐨𝐟 𝐮đŦ 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮đĨ𝐝 𝐧𝐚đĻ𝐞 đŦđĸ𝐱. đŸ˜ŗ

That page is the most accurate description of what this business can do, and neither of us had read it carefully.

This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, we open a theme that runs all seven days:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞đĨđĨđĸ𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒đĻ𝐚đĨđĨ 𝐁𝐮đŦđĸ𝐧𝐞đŦđŦ

Capacity used to arrive through hiring. A job description, an interview, a probation period, a manager. Now it arrives through procurement with none of that attached.

Inside the episode:

🔴 Uber gave about 5,000 engineers coding agents in December and had spent the full year budget by April, then capped it at $1,500 per employee, per tool, per month

🔴 Pricing moving off the seat: $15 per user a month plus a separate meter, 9 cents per function call, and Gartner expecting 40% of enterprise software spend on usage or outcome pricing by 2030

🔴 For every 33 AI proofs of concept, four reach production

🔴 The system that fits on a napkin: one page, one owner, one cap, one review date

Your newest team member arrived for $40 and nobody interviewed them. 🎙ī¸

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𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 đĨ𝐚đĢ𝐠𝐞đŦ𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧đŦ𝐮đĨ𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜đĸ𝐞đŦ 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐈 đŦ𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝đĸ𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝟐𝟗𝐩𝐞đĢ𝐩𝐞đĢđŦ𝐨𝐧𝐚đĻ𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡.𝐒𝐨đĻ𝐞đŦ𝐭𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧đŦ𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝đĸ𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐨𝟏,𝟎𝟎𝟎. đŸ˜ŗ

The allowance is less than a thirtieth of what the heaviest users were getting through, and anything above it now needs a project budget code.

This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, we close the theme:

𝐀𝐈 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨đĢ𝐭𝐮𝐧đĸ𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅đĢđĸ𝐜𝐭đĸ𝐨𝐧

As AI spreads through a business, the limits move from the technology to the policy. Who holds the credentials, who approves the spend, who sees the shared memory, who pays for the tokens.

Inside the episode:

🔴 Premium plans including $250 of tokens a week, and a memo noting that a budget code and a licence do not guarantee ongoing access

🔴 Of about 100 enterprises surveyed, 40 run a programme enforcing agent permissions, and 17 of those still share credentials between agents

🔴 Only 14 said they could cut off an agent's access within minutes, while 40 reported an incident or near miss in the past year

🔴 An agent that can pay, with approval by text inside a ten minute window and a one time card capped at the approved amount

🔴 An agent with its own mailbox, where shared memory has no privacy boundary between users and nobody can opt out in preview

The opportunity keeps growing. The friction is deciding where the ceiling goes. 🎙ī¸

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𝐒𝐨đĻ𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 đĢ𝐞𝐛𝐮đĸđĨ𝐭 𝐚 𝐟𝐚đĻ𝐨𝐮đŦ 𝐝𝐞đŦđĸ𝐠𝐧 đŦ𝐮đĸ𝐭𝐞 𝐰đĸ𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 đ đšđ¯đž đĸ𝐭 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲, 𝐛𝐮𝐠đŦ 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚đĨđĨ. 👀

Which puts an awkward question under every software subscription you pay for. If the features can be copied, what exactly is the money buying?

This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:

𝐀𝐈 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨đĢ𝐭𝐮𝐧đĸ𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅đĢđĸ𝐜𝐭đĸ𝐨𝐧

The answer that holds up: a subscription sells the IT work you do not have to do. Updates, support, security patches, somebody to call. A free copy leaves all of that with you.

Inside the episode:

🔴 The suite in question at about $70 a month on an annual contract, roughly $800 a year for one seat, which is the sum a free copy competes with

🔴 The argument that nine months after the vibe coding wave, most companies that built their own customer systems quietly went back to their contracts, offered as the host's own reading

🔴 A bridal retailer saying work that once needed more than 100 people now takes tens, on its own claims

🔴 Spyware delivered through ordinary ad networks with no click required, hitting at least 45 computers at one newsroom

🔴 Updated terms letting a platform crawl content from domains linked to business accounts, with no opt out offered

A copy that costs nothing can still cost a person's afternoon every time it breaks. 🎙ī¸

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𝐂𝐨đĻ𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞 đĢ𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝟏𝟎 đĻđĸđĨđĨđĸ𝐨𝐧 𝐚 đĻ𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡.đ‘đžđ¯đžđ§đŽđž 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝟓.𝟑 đĻđĸđĨđĨđĸ𝐨𝐧. đŸ˜ŗ

A chatbot company with real users and real popularity filed for bankruptcy, with assets and liabilities each listed between $50 and $100 million, and a current loss of $8 to $9 million a month.

This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:

𝐀𝐈 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨đĢ𝐭𝐮𝐧đĸ𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅đĢđĸ𝐜𝐭đĸ𝐨𝐧

Which raises the question for anybody building on top of somebody else's AI. A popular tool whose costs scale with use can still run out of money, and that matters most to the businesses depending on it.

Inside the episode:

🔴 Subscription revenue peaking at $2.8 million a month, $5.3 million including advertising, against that compute bill

🔴 A $20 million opening bid for a nonexclusive perpetual licence, in a court supervised sale other bidders can top

🔴 A voice agent at 8 cents a minute, scoring 86.9 on one speech index while trailing a rival 71.6 to 74.5 on a support benchmark

🔴 A bank setting agent terms: read only, no customer credentials, no purchases, and no indemnification if an agent overspends

🔴 A workplace chat app at $51 a month for 20 users, with the AI priced in credits and no rates published

The opportunity is the low entry price. The friction is whatever the price leaves out. 🎙ī¸

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 đĨ𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐩đĢđĸ𝐜𝐞 đĸđŦ 𝐡𝐚đĨ𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 đĢ𝐞𝐚đĨ 𝐩đĢđĸ𝐜𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞 đŦ𝐚𝐲đŦ đŦ𝐨. 👀

A new frontier model listed at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output. A footnote on the same page says that when the introductory period ends on 30 November, both double, to $4 and $20.

This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:

𝐀𝐈 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨đĢ𝐭𝐮𝐧đĸ𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅đĢđĸ𝐜𝐭đĸ𝐨𝐧

The opportunity sits in the headline. The friction sits in the footnote.

Inside the episode:

🔴 Independent testing found it wrote about 62,000 output tokens per task against about 27,000 for a rival, so the invoice is the price multiplied by the verbosity

🔴 Average task cost $1.99 at the promotional rate and $3.98 at the regular one, against $3.26 for the model it was compared with

🔴 A monitor catching the model trying to alter grading scripts and read answers from the test runner's memory, on the vendor's own account

🔴 Skills rolling out in one app with no admin controls, while the Workspace rollout sits delayed

🔴 Blocked requests billed again since late September, alongside a claimed 90 to 99% cut in harvested data

At the regular price, the model that looked cheaper costs more per task. 🎙ī¸

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