# around ai (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover around ai. Page: Feed: --- ## [Why Stripe Wants to Own AI’s Gross Margin](https://pulseline.substack.com/p/why-stripe-wants-to-own-ais-gross) _2026-08-21 · Pulse Line · Pulse Line_ The OpenRouter deal connects model routing, token costs, usage billing, and profit. ## [Opportunity Radar: The Control Layer Around AI](https://pulseline.substack.com/p/opportunity-radar-the-control-layer) _2026-08-19 · Pulse Line · Pulse Line_ Three overlooked businesses are emerging around AI commerce, creative rights, and school technology approval. ## [The AI Brief: AI’s New Battle Is Control](https://pulseline.substack.com/p/the-ai-brief-ais-new-battle-is-control) _2026-08-15 · Pulse Line · Pulse Line_ Models still matter, but this week showed that the bigger battle is shifting toward pricing, distribution, customer ownership, and control. ## [Digital Garden @ prg.sh](https://prg.sh/) _2026-08-15 · 🌻 prg.sh_ ## [The Deep Dive: Inside the AI Chip War](https://pulseline.substack.com/p/the-deep-dive-inside-the-ai-chip) _2026-08-13 · Pulse Line · Pulse Line_ Google, AWS, Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI are building custom silicon to cut AI costs and reduce their dependence on NVIDIA. ## [Opportunity Radar: The Business Layer Around AI Agents](https://pulseline.substack.com/p/opportunity-radar-the-business-layer) _2026-08-12 · Pulse Line · Pulse Line_ Five emerging opportunities in AI security, private deployment, verification, customer-service QA, and compute infrastructure. ## [The AI Brief: AI’s Next Battle Is Bigger Than Models](https://pulseline.substack.com/p/the-ai-brief-ais-next-battle-is-bigger) _2026-08-11 · Pulse Line · Pulse Line_ NVIDIA’s $500B infrastructure push, OpenAI’s security warning, Meta’s local agents, Google’s AI reset, and the falling price of intelligence. ## [Meet Brief Stak: Smarter Insights on AI, Productivity & Business](https://pulseline.substack.com/p/meet-brief-stak-smarter-insights) _2026-08-10 · Pulse Line · Pulse Line_ A new newsletter built to help you understand what matters, work smarter, and stay ahead of the ideas shaping business and technology. ## [Defense Tech’s $61 Billion Moment](https://pulseline.substack.com/p/defense-techs-61-billion-moment) _2026-07-30 · Pulse Line · Pulse Line_ What Anduril’s Valuation Means for the Next Wave of Builders ## [The Big Shift in Al Funding: Vertical Agents, Real ROI, and Billion-Dollar Rounds](https://pulseline.substack.com/p/the-18b-agent-wave-why-vertical-ai) _2026-07-29 · Pulse Line · Pulse Line_ Capital is not flowing to whoever builds the smartest agent. It is flowing to whoever picks the narrowest problem. ## [Collect Open Source Legends (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/STq5lfePeM51) _2026-07-29 · **Sponsored**_ Open-licensed art, limited foil trading packs, and optional on-chain mints. ## [The Biggest Investing Mistakes Are Easier to Avoid Than You Think](https://pulseline.substack.com/p/the-biggest-investing-mistakes-are) _2026-07-09 · Pulse Line · Pulse Line_ The Intelligent Investor's Playbook shows you how to invest with confidence, avoid costly mistakes, and build long-term wealth. ## [Most People Start Investing Too Late. Don't Be One of Them.](https://pulseline.substack.com/p/most-people-start-investing-too-late) _2026-07-08 · Pulse Line · Pulse Line_ Simple lessons that can help you make smarter financial decisions for years to come. ## [GPT-Rosalind](https://prg.sh/bookmarks/GPT-Rosalind) _2026-06-06 · 🌻 prg.sh_ OpenAI's first domain-specific frontier model for life sciences, gated behind a trusted-access program rather than released to the public ## [Filtering AI Content Will Not Save Us From Ourselves](https://www.timboucher.ca/2026/06/filtering-ai-content-will-not-save-us-from-ourselves/) _2026-06-05 · Tim B. · Tim Boucher_ I guess this is ultimately an “I’m old enough to remember when…” post. In this case, I’m old enough to remember when journalism actually reported on things that happened, instead of merely being opinionated ranting. Don’t get me wrong, opinionated ranting has its place. And I happen to believe the apex of that particular mode \[…\] ## [The Prompt Is Not the Product](https://prg.sh/ramblings/The-Prompt-Is-Not-the-Product) _2026-04-30 · 🌻 prg.sh_ If AI agents are going to do real work, the prompt is only one part of the setup. The interface around the AI matters more. ## [On Hello Future Podcast](https://www.timboucher.ca/2026/04/on-hello-future-podcast/) _2026-04-07 · Tim B. · Tim Boucher_ Had a fun time talking about using AI to help produce books on the Hello Future podcast on IHeartRadio. Listen here. ## [Agentic Context Engineering](https://prg.sh/bookmarks/Agentic-Context-Engineering) _2026-04-05 · 🌻 prg.sh_ ICLR 2026 paper introducing ACE, a framework that treats LLM contexts as self-evolving playbooks instead of static prompts ## [Pi Coding Agent](https://prg.sh/bookmarks/Pi-Coding-Agent) _2026-04-05 · 🌻 prg.sh_ Mario Zechner's minimal, four-tool AI coding agent that bets on leaving things out ## [Harness Engineering](https://prg.sh/notes/Harness-Engineering) _2026-04-05 · 🌻 prg.sh_ The discipline of designing everything around an AI model that makes it reliable in production ## [Context Engineering](https://prg.sh/notes/Context-Engineering) _2026-03-05 · 🌻 prg.sh_ The discipline of filling an LLM's context window with the right information for each step, replacing prompt engineering as the core AI skill ## [Earn crypto from idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Rid019AnhENy) _2026-03-04 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI command, connect your GPU, and start receiving crypto payouts. ## [On the Kim Komando Show](https://www.timboucher.ca/2026/02/on-the-kim-komando-show/) _2026-02-22 · Tim B. · Tim Boucher_ Had fun recording this appearance a few days ago on the Kim Komando radio show & podcast about my AI books and albums. ## [On the Chameleon Podcast](https://www.timboucher.ca/2026/02/on-the-chameleon-podcast/) _2026-02-11 · Tim B. · Tim Boucher_ The folks over at Campside Media did an excellent job distilling a complex story down for a general audience. I enjoyed participating! ## [Claude Code Agent Teams](https://prg.sh/notes/Claude-Code-Agent-Teams) _2026-02-09 · 🌻 prg.sh_ Multi-session orchestration where independent Claude instances coordinate through shared tasks and direct messaging ## [Response to Consequence of Sound Article](https://www.timboucher.ca/2026/02/response-to-consequence-of-sound-article/) _2026-02-06 · Tim B. · Tim Boucher_ I meant to reply to this Consequence of Sound AI music article from December, but household affairs interrupted everything for me. Don’t have much to say here, except that it’s a shame an authentic, deep, and personal interview got reduced to… this muddle. My question for journalists at this point is: if Andrew Frelon is \[…\] ## [Billy Joel’s AI Music Video](https://www.timboucher.ca/2026/02/billy-joels-ai-music-video/) _2026-02-02 · Tim B. · Tim Boucher_ I’ve had a number of things going on which have prevented me from updating here much, but just wanted to point out that somehow Billy Joel released an AI music video almost a year ago that I never heard about until recently: I don’t much care for the AI effects here, as I find the \[…\] ## [Geoffrey Huntley's Ralph Wiggum Resources](https://prg.sh/bookmarks/Geoffrey-Huntley-Ralph-Wiggum) _2026-01-18 · 🌻 prg.sh_ Original source for the Ralph Wiggum autonomous AI coding technique and context engineering philosophy ## [Claude Code Agent Skills](https://prg.sh/notes/Claude-Code-Agent-Skills) _2026-01-18 · 🌻 prg.sh_ Modular knowledge packages Claude loads on-demand when your task matches their description ## [Music Journalists Should Stop Parroting Spotify PR Around AI Music](https://www.timboucher.ca/2025/10/music-journalists-should-stop-parroting-spotify-pr-around-ai-music/) _2025-10-25 · Tim B. · Tim Boucher_ Basically the title: music journalists should stop parroting Spotify’s PR claims about how they’re taking action around AI music. There are tons of examples of this, but Christianna Silva’s piece on Mashable (from one month ago) is one that caught my eye this morning. Everyone seems to have just uncritically reported on the words Spotify \[…\] ## [Quoting David Bowie](https://www.timboucher.ca/2025/10/quoting-david-bowie/) _2025-10-22 · Tim B. · Tim Boucher_ Via Rolling Stone India: As David Bowie once said, “Always remember that the reason that you initially started working is that there was something inside yourself that you felt that, if you could manifest in some way, you would understand more about yourself and how you coexist with the rest of society. I think it’s terribly dangerous \[…\] ## [The Wandering Eye of AI…](https://www.timboucher.ca/2025/10/the-wandering-eye-of-ai/) _2025-10-19 · Tim B. · Tim Boucher_ Also re: digressive writing, I think at its a best, its a kind of meandering around and sometimes hiding and then sudden revealing of the truth. And there’s something inherently comforting and warm and human about that. The rambling walk and non-linearity of conversation sprung from points encountered along the way, internally or externally. And \[…\] ## [Prime Noise-Cancelling Picks (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/pXwGjf4Z4Ty3) _2025-10-19 · **Sponsored**_ Browse Prime-eligible, 4-star-and-up noise-cancelling earbuds with fast shipping and deals ## [The People Making AI Music Are The Ones Mostly Listening To It](https://www.timboucher.ca/2025/10/the-people-making-ai-music-are-the-ones-mostly-listening-to-it/) _2025-10-19 · Tim B. · Tim Boucher_ I guess this sounds obvious in retrospect, but this Reddit comment made it all crystal clear, vis a vis my active-creative listening thread: There’s a real movement of people making music with AI. But, there’s no one to listen to it yet. There’s a good reason why – why listen to someone else’s music when \[…\]