ZD 26.12: The Claws Are Coming!
Agentic AI, brought to you by OpenClaw and more highlights from the week.
🦞 What is OpenClaw? (More or Less Podcast)
OpenClaw has been the Main Character in the AI world this week. It's an AI agent that runs on your computer and it's reshaping who controls the AI stack.
🏃♂️ The Great Claw Forward (2nd Order Thinkers)
While we debate security, China is mass-mobilizing.
💻 How to Use Perplexity Computer (Cash & Cache)
Perplexity Computer is the new agentic tool that comes with your subscription. It is not a search engine but your own agentic worker.
🪖 The Art of War in the 21st Century (Bruce Mehlman)
Warfare is different now. Electrically-powered, AI-enabled drones make asymmetric, omnipresent warfare a reality.
🦅 The Eagle and The Lions (Big Serge Thought)
America and Israel wanted a sprint, Iran is getting the marathon it wants.
🛢️Funding The Enemy (The Bismarck Cables)
Waiving sanctions on Iranian oil is just rewarding Iran for closing the Straits.
🏝️ The Kharg Island Fantasy (Jordan Schneider)
Can you invade an island in the Persian Gulf without any ships in the Persian Gulf?
🎈 Don’t Buy the Helium Hype (Azeem Azhar)
Helium production has been curtailed, but how much does it matter?
🌍 Modeling the Messy World (Packy McCormick)
What if you could tokenize and understand the real world like current LLMs work with language? World Models learn by seeing rather than reading and they are going to get very interesting soon.
🥊 Fight the Fight 3 Times (Molly Graham)
Figuring out when you should give up is hard.
🤓 Storytelling Mistakes by Technical Leaders (Wes Kao)
Technical leaders tend to give too much detail, overthink tactics, overshare back story and go on too long to be effective storytellers. Here are some ways to work on those tendencies.
🗺️ Non-Technical User’s Guide to Claude Code (MICHAEL CRIST)
In case you haven’t taken the plunge, this is a handy guide to getting going with Claude Code for the not-so-technically inclined.
💿 Cop Killer (The Gen X Jukebox)
The song Cop Killer struck a nerve in 1992. The band still rocks on.
The Look
Today’s reminder that oil and gas are in everything.
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