Katie’s on vacation so I’m borrowing the ranty pants. I’ll give them back when she’s back from PTO. Earlier today, Pam Didner, Taylor Logue & Iva Ignjatovic produced a nice writeup of AI speakers, and in the post is this paragraph next to my entry (thank you!): “Pam’s take: Chris pairs well with a strategy…
8 hours. That’s how long the new version of Zhipu AI’s (aka ZAI) flagship model, GLM-5.1, is capable of working autonomously and still cranking out high quality results. ZAI trained ths new model entirely on Huawei Ascend chips, not an NVIDIA GPU in sight. This is China’s leading chip maker for AI, and the benchmarks…
Pyramids to obelisks. Take a look at the job description in the attached image, for an account coordinator at a PR firm. Ask yourself honestly how much of this job AI could do, with today’s capabilities, especially with agentic tools like Claude Cowork. The answer is almost all of it. Creating first drafts of anything?…
A gentle reminder that the only GUARANTEED private AI is with models you are hosting yourself, on your machine or your infrastructure. Every cloud provider, without exception, will have somewhere in their Terms of Service that they will comply with lawful requests for data from the government of their jurisdiction. For example, this is inference…
The usefulness of “AI visibility” tools is headed to zero very soon. At SEO Week, Garrett Sussman showcased Google’s personalization in AI Overviews and AI Mode for GEO, that Google is adding personalization to AI-powered search results. In the old days, Google’s personalized search meant that you’d get more personalized search results based on your…
Yesterday, LinkedIn FINALLY confirmed what we all knew: there’s a new algorithmic sheriff in town. Well, it’s not so much a sheriff as it is an entire department. At Trust Insights, we’ve been covering the LinkedIn algorithm for the past two years based on academic papers, engineering content, conference presentations, and more. And we’ve just…
AI should make you smarter. I’m in the middle of updating a deck for my colleagues at SMX (I’m doing a full day AI SEO/PPC workshop next month), and in parallel last night I was trying to have AI generate a Common Core-aligned 6th grade math textbook from scratch, based on Common Core (a USA…
If you’re not getting good results from AI, there’s a chance that a failure of process decomposition is the root cause. Very often, we’ll give AI an ambiguous task that is comprised of many subtasks that we fail to define. As with so many things, that failure to define subtasks and decompose them appropriately means…
