I Am Iron Man

At Ascend, one COO grew ARR 38 percent in six months with zero growth hires and a stack of Claude Code slash commands. Microsoft just published the data showing why most companies can't. The Musk–Altman trial just made clear why their boards won't.

Eight days separated two Linux root exploits — and the second was deliberately built on the first. AlphaEvolve doubled Klarna's training speed using its own models. Sean Frank says only two company shapes are working anymore — and there's no hybrid. Most of the economy is stuck in February 2nd.

OpenAI's first enterprise data shows AI-native firms are now 3.5x more productive per worker than their peers, up from 2x a year ago. The Q3 earnings-call question is no longer "who uses Claude?" It's "which of your engineers are pulling away from the average, and how fast is that count growing?"