# live session (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover live session. Page: Feed: --- ## [Your AI agent's skills are lying to you about why they work](https://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/your-ai-agents-skills-are-lying-to-you-about-why-they-work/) _2026-08-20 · Andrew Lovell · AI Accelerator Institute_ Skills don't teach your agent much of anything, according to a new 8,135-trial study: only 4.5% of skill use is actual knowledge injection. The rest is mostly the agent using the skill file to stay on track. And the more skills you add, the worse it gets at finding the right one... ## [10 questions every AI leader should be able to answer in 2027](https://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/10-questions-every-ai-leader-should-be-able-to-answer-in-2027/) _2026-08-20 · Andrew Lovell · AI Accelerator Institute_ From kill switches to Chief AI Officer authority, these are the ten questions separating AI leaders with real answers from leaders about to get a very uncomfortable board question... ## [Newsletter 20th August 2026](https://laurakemshall.substack.com/p/newsletter-20th-august-2026) _2026-08-20 · Linda · Art Club with Linda and Laura Kemshall_ It rained. Linda’s inspired by the live sessions to do some mixed media work, more art from St Ives, new paintings for sale ## [Art Club live session with Laura 29](https://laurakemshall.substack.com/p/art-club-live-session-with-laura-7b9) _2026-08-19 · Laura Kemshall · Art Club with Linda and Laura Kemshall_ Join Laura in the studio this week for painting with acrylic glazes, working on photos in the sketchbook with Neocolor II ## [Bridging the gap from supercomputing to AI factories](https://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/bridging-the-gap-from-supercomputing-to-ai-factories/) _2026-08-18 · AIAI · AI Accelerator Institute_ A comprehensive industry report on modernizing high-performance computing for production AI, featuring insights from NVIDIA and WEKA leaders. ## [Rediscovering old unfinished projects - Family Album](https://laurakemshall.substack.com/p/rediscovering-old-unfinished-projects) _2026-08-15 · Linda · Art Club with Linda and Laura Kemshall_ Finding old work that needs to be seen. Quilted portraits, digital embroidery and fabric painting. ## [How to build AI in the age of collaborative coding](https://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/how-to-build-ai-in-the-age-of-collaborative-coding/) _2026-08-14 · Steve Sewell · AI Accelerator Institute_ I'm Steve, co-founder and CEO of Builder.io. and I want to talk about something that I think most teams are getting wrong right now, even the ones who've already bought into AI... ## [When The Water Gets Murky](https://betsybutterick.substack.com/p/when-the-water-gets-murky) _2026-08-13 · Betsy Butterick · Betsy Butterick_ In sports, not every hard moment is harmful. Not every complaint is a conclusion. Here's a tool for telling the difference. ## [Nobody wants another chatbot: 7 interface architectures worth building](https://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/nobody-wants-another-chatbot-7-interface-architectures-worth-building/) _2026-08-13 · Andrew Lovell · AI Accelerator Institute_ Chat windows were always the entry point to agentic AI rather than the destination. Here are the seven interface architectures, canvases, generative UI, MCP Apps, activity panels, approval checkpoints, agent debuggers, and ambient surfaces that production teams are actually building in 2026. ## [OpenAI's CFO Sarah Friar just published the AI finance playbook](https://finstoryai.substack.com/p/openais-cfo-sarah-friar-just-published) _2026-08-13 · AI In Finance · AI In Finance_ OpenAI's CFO still closes the books manually. But she wants a zero-day close and continuously updated forecasting. 5 lessons for CFOs building an AI native finance function. ## [Know before it drops (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ghX4Yt8wKO37) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Follow a show, artist, genre or rocket and get notified before release ## [Newsletter 13th August 2026](https://laurakemshall.substack.com/p/newsletter-13th-august-2026) _2026-08-13 · Laura Kemshall · Art Club with Linda and Laura Kemshall_ Tiny paintings, new greetings cards in the shop, Festival of Quilts favourites, art from St Ives ## [Art Club Live with Laura session 28](https://laurakemshall.substack.com/p/art-club-live-with-laura-session-d8c) _2026-08-13 · Laura Kemshall · Art Club with Linda and Laura Kemshall_ Watch now | Spend time with Laura in the studio. This week she's using photos in her sketchbook but adding to them using Caran d'Ache Neocolor II ## [Agentic Observability Virtual Summit](https://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/agentic-observability-virtual-summit/) _2026-08-12 · AIAI · AI Accelerator Institute_ Catch on every session from Agentic Observability Virtual Summit, with sessions from the likes of Paypal, Vodafone, Amazon, Google Deepmind and more. ## [The AI architecture decisions that cannot wait](https://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/the-ai-architecture-decisions-that-cannot-wait/) _2026-08-12 · Khushan Adatiya · AI Accelerator Institute_ Data centers close on schedules that don't care about your AI roadmap. Get the sequencing wrong, and you don't just move SAP workloads to the cloud. You migrate every architectural weakness right along with them. ## [AI Inference Is memory-bound: How to overcome the Memory Wall](https://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/why-your-gpus-are-sitting-idle/) _2026-08-11 · AIAI · AI Accelerator Institute_ Proven strategies for managing large-scale AI inference workloads through smarter infrastructure design. ## [Data Infrastructure Virtual Summit | May 2026](https://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/data-infrastructure-summit-virtual-summit-may-2026/) _2026-08-11 · AIAI · AI Accelerator Institute_ Catch on every session from Data Infrastructure Summit, with sessions from the likes of USBank, Betterworks, Meta, ServiceNow and more. ## [Thanks for registering](https://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/thanks-for-registering-5/) _2026-08-11 · AIAI · AI Accelerator Institute_ Check your inbox, you'll receive an email with your link to join. See you soon. ## [6 mistakes AI leaders keep making with agentic deployments](https://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/6-mistakes-ai-leaders-keep-making-with-agentic-deployments/) _2026-08-10 · Andrew Lovell · AI Accelerator Institute_ Agentic AI moved from slide deck to production system faster than most governance committees could schedule a meeting about it. That speed feels thrilling right up until an agent with real credentials makes a judgment call at 2am, and the room realizes the guardrails were still a work in progress… ## [The canary test AI agents keep failing](https://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/the-canary-test-ai-agents-keep-failing/) _2026-08-10 · Andrew Lovell · AI Accelerator Institute_ Every agent evaluation tells you the model picked the wrong tool. Almost none tell you why. A new paper solves that by planting diagnostic "canary" tools inside an agent's toolkit, each one built to expose a specific blind spot, then watching what the agent grabs. The results are brutal... ## [I Love A Pineapple Quilt!](https://laurakemshall.substack.com/p/i-love-a-pineapple-quilt) _2026-08-09 · Linda · Art Club with Linda and Laura Kemshall_ A strip patchwork design that has lasting appeal. ## [Recipe PDFs Ready Fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/thPhVr5yn8jQ) _2026-08-09 · **Sponsored**_ Turn online or personal recipes into clean, printable PDFs in seconds. ## [How to do financial modeling with Claude](https://finstoryai.substack.com/p/how-to-do-financial-modeling-with) _2026-08-07 · AI In Finance · AI In Finance_ Claude is the new Excel. Finance people can use Claude to do advanced financial modeling and build a storytelling board deck. ## [Newsletter 6th August 2026](https://laurakemshall.substack.com/p/newsletter-6th-august-2026) _2026-08-06 · Laura Kemshall · Art Club with Linda and Laura Kemshall_ Holiday photos to inspire new work, some of our favourite things from Festival of Quilts, art in St Ives ## [Art Club live session with Laura 27](https://laurakemshall.substack.com/p/art-club-live-session-with-laura-f29) _2026-08-05 · Laura Kemshall · Art Club with Linda and Laura Kemshall_ Laura's back in the studio this week starting a new sketchbook with photos from her holiday ## [Painting a Lily](https://laurakemshall.substack.com/p/painting-a-lily) _2026-08-03 · Linda · Art Club with Linda and Laura Kemshall_ Painting a lily flower with fluid acrylics and Posca paint pens on canvas. ## [Still Working in my Plant Printed Book](https://laurakemshall.substack.com/p/still-working-in-my-plant-printed) _2026-08-01 · Linda · Art Club with Linda and Laura Kemshall_ Leaf prints, collage, rubbings, pastel and paint ## [The definitive guide to financial services agents in production](https://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/the-definitive-guide-to-financial-services-agents-in-production/) _2026-07-31 · Andrew Lovell · AI Accelerator Institute_ ## [Accelerating AI growth](https://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/accelerating-ai-growth/) _2026-07-31 · Andrew Lovell · AI Accelerator Institute_ Discover expert insights, practical resources, and industry guidance to help AI startups and established teams innovate, scale, and grow. ## [Trust: The next critical infrastructure layer for autonomous AI](https://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/trust-the-next-critical-infrastructure-layer-for-autonomous-ai/) _2026-07-31 · Amit Paka · AI Accelerator Institute_ We're at an inflection point. AI has moved well beyond generating recommendations for humans to review. It's taking actions. It's embedded in business workflows. It's making decisions autonomously, and in many cases, it's doing all of this faster than any human could intervene. ## [7 things every AI engineer should have shipped by now](https://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/7-things-every-ai-engineer-should-have-shipped-by-now/) _2026-07-31 · Andrew Lovell · AI Accelerator Institute_ Seven concrete things separate engineers shipping real production AI from everyone still calling a demo a system. Most teams are missing at least one. ## [Why AI fails in finance](https://finstoryai.substack.com/p/why-ai-fails-in-finance) _2026-07-31 · AI In Finance · AI In Finance_ MIT warns CFOs. 95% of AI is dangerous. ## [Code Faster with Clear Tutorials (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/yL8cIFj4FTjU) _2026-07-31 · **Sponsored**_ Short, step-by-step coding videos you can follow along ## [Known Before Questioned](https://betsybutterick.substack.com/p/known-before-questioned) _2026-07-30 · Betsy Butterick · Betsy Butterick_ Supporting athletes and supporting coaches are not competing priorities, and healthy sport cultures refuse to confuse complaints with conclusions. ## [Newsletter 30th July 2026](https://laurakemshall.substack.com/p/newsletter-30th-july-2026) _2026-07-30 · Linda · Art Club with Linda and Laura Kemshall_ A few garden survivors for painting inspiration, new knitting project, tiny art and books ## [The agentic operating model report](https://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/the-agentic-operating-model-report/) _2026-07-29 · AIAI · AI Accelerator Institute_ ## [5 best strategies for scaling AI in enterprises](https://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/five-strategies-for-scaling-ai-in-enterprises/) _2026-07-28 · Andrew Lovell · AI Accelerator Institute_ 88% of enterprises report regular AI use. Only 7% have scaled it. Here are the five strategies separating the companies that made it work from everyone still demoing chatbots to their board. ## [Anthropic just released Claude Opus 5 and it's insanely better than Fable 5](https://finstoryai.substack.com/p/anthropic-just-released-claude-opus) _2026-07-26 · AI In Finance · AI In Finance_ Anthropic released Opus 5 yesterday. For finance this one is different. Fable 5 intelligence at half the price. Higher accuracy on financial modeling. And 841 connectors to your finance stack. ## [Claude just changed FP&A forever](https://finstoryai.substack.com/p/claude-just-changed-fp-and-a-forever) _2026-07-24 · AI In Finance · AI In Finance_ We spoke to a CFO who asked us if they could build their entire annual budget inside Claude. ## [Fable 5 vs Opus 4.8 in finance: Only one survives the Audit](https://finstoryai.substack.com/p/fable-5-vs-opus-48-in-finance-only) _2026-07-19 · AI In Finance · AI In Finance_ Testing Claude Fable 5 vs. Opus 4.8 in finance. We ran the hardest finance test we could design. The models disagreed. The lesson for CFOs is when to use which model. ## [Using Claude Fable 5 as a CFO to rescue a broken month-end close](https://finstoryai.substack.com/p/using-claude-fable-5-as-a-cfo-to) _2026-07-18 · AI In Finance · AI In Finance_ Can Fable rescue a broken month-end close? And why it's better than Opus 4.8 for complex finance tasks. This is the finance-grade AI workflow nobody is talking about. ## [Hard Doesn't Mean Harmful](https://betsybutterick.substack.com/p/hard-doesnt-mean-harmful) _2026-07-15 · Betsy Butterick · Betsy Butterick_ Sport was never meant to make athletes comfortable. It was meant to make them capable. ## [They are lying about AI in finance](https://finstoryai.substack.com/p/they-are-lying-about-ai-in-finance) _2026-07-12 · AI In Finance · AI In Finance_ Are we ever going to get ROI from AI? The AI feature you bought is a 90-day melting ice cube. MIT says 95% of AI produces zero measurable value. Anthropic's own product launches are erasing the... ## [Urgent Call for CFOs who want AI](https://finstoryai.substack.com/p/urgent-call-for-cfos-who-want-ai) _2026-07-09 · AI In Finance · AI In Finance_ Your ERP records financial reality. It does not explain it. Every month, finance rebuilds the financial story outside the system. That changes now. ## [New "Perks" for You](https://betsybutterick.substack.com/p/new-perks-for-you) _2026-07-08 · Betsy Butterick · Betsy Butterick_ Substack now has a Perks tab ## [How to build a real Financial Story with Claude MCP](https://finstoryai.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-real-financial-story) _2026-07-05 · AI In Finance · AI In Finance_ We combined an MCP server with a Claude skill so the model pulls real data from NetSuite, analyzes it, and asks you 3 sharp questions per page before writing a word. Your judgment goes in. ## [What Golf Taught Me About Accountability Conversations: Part 2](https://betsybutterick.substack.com/p/what-golf-taught-me-about-accountability-1ea) _2026-06-24 · Betsy Butterick · Betsy Butterick_ The Longleaf Tee System gives golfers a starting point that matches their current ability. What if we took a similar approach to help people succeed in accountability conversations? ## [What Golf Taught Me About Accountability Conversations: Part 1](https://betsybutterick.substack.com/p/what-golf-taught-me-about-accountability) _2026-06-18 · Betsy Butterick · Betsy Butterick_ The Longleaf Tee System gives golfers a starting point that matches their current ability. What if we took a similar approach to help people succeed in accountability conversations? ## [The Reps We Removed & The Price We Pay](https://betsybutterick.substack.com/p/the-reps-we-removed-and-the-damage) _2026-05-28 · Betsy Butterick · Betsy Butterick_ How "good parenting" has resulted in challenges for today's athletes (and frustration for their coaches). ## [“I’m Not Being Developed” and “I’m Not Valued”: What Coaches Need to Understand](https://betsybutterick.substack.com/p/im-not-being-developed-and-im-not) _2026-05-14 · Betsy Butterick · Betsy Butterick_ Reduce attrition by addressing the two most common reasons athletes enter the transfer portal ## [What Athletes Actually Hear When You Give “Honest” Feedback](https://betsybutterick.substack.com/p/what-athletes-actually-hear-when) _2026-04-30 · Betsy Butterick · Betsy Butterick_ And a framework you can use today to be more CLEAR ## [A token of gratitude for your paid subscription!](https://betsybutterick.substack.com/p/a-token-of-gratitude-for-your-paid) _2026-04-30 · Betsy Butterick · Betsy Butterick_ I love what I get to do, and I'm grateful for your support! ## [The Difference Between Saying Sorry and Being Sorry](https://betsybutterick.substack.com/p/the-difference-between-saying-sorry) _2026-04-09 · Betsy Butterick · Betsy Butterick_ What Geno Auriemma’s two apologies teach us about authentic communication