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<title>Five of the world's largest software companies shipped company memory in eight days. Most businesses still do not have one.</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<category>Business</category>
<description><![CDATA[Dell, SAP, Google, Meta and Workday all shipped something that remembers what a business knows. Meanwhile staff spend 2.3 hours a week re-typing context an AI should already have, about GBP 29,900 a year for a ten-person firm, on something that produces no output at all.]]></description>
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<title>Half of small businesses already let AI do a person’s job. Their teams are exhausted.</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<category>Business</category>
<description><![CDATA[A survey of 729 owners found 53% say AI now absorbs a full-time role, and 65% say running a leaner team has hurt their wellbeing. This is not a story about robots taking jobs. It is a story about people being used as middleware.]]></description>
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<title>The AI that answers your phone now costs $2 a month. Almost nobody has switched.</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<category>Models</category>
<description><![CDATA[On 14 October 2026 Google shipped its long-running agent model at $2 per million input tokens. A week earlier OpenAI started rolling out always-on agents. The economics of a digital employee have collapsed, but the reasons businesses have not moved have nothing to do with price.]]></description>
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<title>95% of AI pilots fail. The number has been stable for two years.</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<category>Business</category>
<description><![CDATA[MIT’s August 2025 State of AI in Business report found roughly 95% of generative AI pilots produced no measurable P&L impact. McKinsey and BCG independently report the same wall. The pattern behind it is not technical, and it is fixable.]]></description>
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<title>A digital employee costs £1.60 an hour. The junior it replaces costs £13.</title>
<link>https://twinthos.com/notes/cost-of-an-ai-employee/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<category>Futures</category>
<description><![CDATA[The maths of replacing a human role with software, done honestly with October 2026 list pricing: the model costs almost nothing, the true cost of running it properly is the interesting part, and the number that changes minds is the staff-hour, not the invoice.]]></description>
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<title>The last time a machine was supposed to erase a job. It hired more people instead.</title>
<link>https://twinthos.com/notes/atm-and-bank-tellers/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<category>The Lab</category>
<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows ATMs replaced bank tellers. The data says the opposite: teller employment rose for two decades after the ATMs arrived, because the machine cut the cost of a branch and banks opened more of them. There is a live lesson for anyone reading this week’s AI headlines.]]></description>
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<title>Everyone is shipping an “AI agent” this month. Almost none of them are agents.</title>
<link>https://twinthos.com/notes/what-an-ai-agent-actually-does/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<category>Agents</category>
<description><![CDATA[Google, OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic all released something called an agent in October 2026. The word now covers everything from a chatbot to a worker with its own computer. Here is what actually separates the two, and why it decides whether your business gets a colleague or a demo.]]></description>
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<title>AI, explained simply. What it is, and what it can do for your life.</title>
<link>https://twinthos.com/notes/intro-to-ai/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<category>Business</category>
<description><![CDATA[AI is software that has read an enormous amount of what people have written and learned the patterns in it. Here is what it is, what it is good at, and the one question to ask before you trust it.]]></description>
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<title>The world just renamed AI. Whatever you call it, it is already working for you.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<category>Futures</category>
<description><![CDATA[On 29 September 2026 the US government ordered federal agencies to say super intelligence instead of artificial intelligence. Big companies followed within days. The models got smaller at the same time.]]></description>
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