The Cost Management dashboard in the Microsoft 365 admin center helps organizations control, monitor, and optimize Copilot Credit spending for #AI experiences enabled by usage-based billing learn.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...

Your best store manager spent 20 years learning what works. When they leave, it goes with them. A learning loop paired with a world model is how #retailers finally capture that, and find the patterns even a veteran never spotted www.linkedin.com/pulse/learni... #AI #Retail

55 enterprise-ready #startups. Five solution themes. One map of where #Retail & #CPG #innovation is actually happening. New post on the Microsoft for Startups Pegasus portfolio & the problems these companies solve www.linkedin.com/pulse/solvin...

Met with the BrainCo team this morning and had to share. They're solving a problem every enterprise knows: #AI pilots that never reach production. Their forward deployed model embeds engineers alongside your operators to get complex AI actually working www.linkedin.com/pulse/startu...

Bertrand Russell’s secret to aging well: widen your interests, dissolve the ego, and flow into something larger than yourself www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/13/h...

for me, #Toronto and #Dubai are a surprise www.iqair.com/ca/world-air... #airquality

New Post: Vibecoding a Real-Time Grayline Map and Satellite Tracker Without Writing Code: https://shish.substack.com/p/vibecoding-a-real-time-grayline-map

#AI is expensive because you rent compute. MeshLLM (meshllm.cloud) links all your #GPUs + memory across machines and exposes them as a single OpenAI‑compatible endpoint www.iroh.computer/blog/mesh-ll...

www.instagram.com/reel/Dap3M8m... #pnw

One poll from 2024 found that 23 percent of Americans have forgone an #ambulance ride because of concerns about cost davidoks.blog/p/why-americ...

#startups #AI

Robostral Navigate is an 8B model that lets #robots navigate complex spaces with just a single RGB camera. Trained in-house on simulated data, it generalizes across robot types. Definitely tracking this one as part of my focus on #PhysicalAI 🤖 mistral.ai/news/robostr... #AI

#TIL that America's political birthplace was once part of New Sweden (Nya Sverige), a little-known 17th-century Swedish colony. Almost no one, Americans or Swedes, realizes it ever existed. 🇸🇪 www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

Great convo with Clootrack on turning Voice of the Customer into real outcomes for #retail & #CPG. New Pegasus Spotlight: how their #AI Super Agent + #MCP server (now in Copilot) drives action, not dashboards 📖 www.linkedin.com/pulse/pegasu... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0fNs...

#Walmart & #Amazon have retained their positions at the top of the #US #retail market in the latest 2026 Top 100 #Retailers ranking published by the National Retail Federation finance.yahoo.com/media-advert...

Costco shows shoppers often want fewer choices, clear picks, and good value without the mental load phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the... #retail

looking forward to tracking the #GGR2026 in August goldengloberace.com/skippers/#2026 #sailing

I wish all ships would carry thermal cameras to help avoid hitting #whales. The death count this year is shocking spectrum.ieee.org/whales-ai-th... #AI

My #AI Agents have been at work again and tapped into a n expense reports conversation here at work to create their latest artwork www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Th... The story behind the AI Agents: shish.substack.com/p/i-let-agen... story behind the AI Agents: shish.substack.com/p/i-let-agen...

Microsoft and Haleon will also work together to build #AI tools for areas such as consumer research, product creation, supply chains, and business operations www.tipranks.com/news/microso... #retail #cpg

My #AI Agents have been at work again and tapped into a n expense reports conversation here at work to create their latest artwork www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/I-... The story behind the AI Agents: shish.substack.com/p/i-let-agen...

Local #AI models can be tailored to your needs, work offline, & remain under your control. They're ideal for proprietary business data & personal moments when privacy matters most, from confidential projects to health information ... quesma.com/blog/qwen-36... #LLM

Ollama won by making local #LLMs simple. Now critics say it's become slower, less transparent, and increasingly cloud-focused while standing on llama.cpp's shoulders. Worth reading before choosing your local #AI stack sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-...

New Post: The Answer After Three Decades: https://shish.substack.com/p/the-answer-after-three-decades

I'm hard of hearing, & #AirPods are my hearing aids. They cut background noise & amplify whoever I'm talking to. The catch? Earbuds read as "Do Not Disturb." People think I'm tuning them out when I'm actually wired up to hear them better. www.theescapenewsletter.com/p/the-airpod...

this looks interesting: run intensive #AI workloads locally with AMD Ryzen AI Halo, featuring 128 GB unified memory & support for up to 200B parameter models www.amd.com/en/products/...

OptiMind turns plain‑language business problems into solver‑ready math models: variables, constraints, and objectives for #supplychain, workforce schedules, routing, & portfolios labs.ai.azure.com/innovations/... #AI

the "real opportunity" will not come from choosing the strongest model. Instead, it comes from building a learning loop on top of models, where human and token capital compound finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech... #AI

New Post: Local AI Just Got Real: Why I’m Excited About RTX Spark Meeting Azure AI Foundry Local: https://shish.substack.com/p/local-ai-just-got-real-why-im-excited

this is absolutely fantastic. I wasnt aware Home Assistant already has an MCP Server www.home-assistant.io/integrations... #IoT #HomeAutomation #AI #HomeAssistant

I stopped asking #AI for the news and asked it what the news means. I gave an agent a job description: read 30+ #retail news sources, skip the headlines, deliver the trends and takeaways. Here's how I built it, instructions included: www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-stop...

#Coinbase for Agents will initially allow agents like #ChatGPT or #Claude to execute #crypto trades using natural language instructions www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/c... interesting & scary is the idea to give agents access to money &, through that financial independence #AI #AgenticAI

I've been experimenting with something fun lately: an #AI agent that reads #startup news, extracts #founder learnings & publishes a #newsletter, on its own using Microsoft Scout : www.linkedin.com/posts/shishs...

Microsoft for #Startups Pegasus spotlight series: Toolio, AI-powered merchandise planning built for #retail & apparel. The standout for me is their #MCP Server, turning the whole planning platform into a capability your in-house #AI agents can call on www.linkedin.com/pulse/startu...

Listening to The Overload (#TalkingHeads) while I weigh the idea of retiring from #Microsoft. The slow unraveling in the song mirrors this moment, the center shifting as I try to understand who I might become when the noise finally settles open.spotify.com/track/3HBpOy...

New Post: From Photo to Figurine: An Autonomous Retailer Run Entirely by Agents: https://shish.substack.com/p/from-photo-to-figurine-an-autonomous

Microsoft Scout is available as an experimental release through Frontier, giving customers a chance to explore how Microsoft Scout can fit into their own workflows www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... #AI

#Azure #Linux is built on a robust open-source foundation from the Fedora ecosystem and enhanced with Azure-specific innovations: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/... Looking forward to Azure Linux for WSL

Running a 120B-parameter model on hardware that sits on your desk, with no per-token costs and no backend to maintain. Local #AI just got real. My take on RTX Spark meeting Foundry Local: shish.substack.com/p/local-ai-j...

Healthy #startups need friction. The pushback you're tempted to engineer out of your board and leadership team is the same signal that tells you when the strategy is broken. Kill the dissent & you kill your early-warning system. www.inc.com/naomi-carmen...

Smart move by Uber: it's set above typical usage, so it reins in the heavy spenders without taxing everyone with planning overhead. Whats interesting is that it puts a predictable ceiling on a runaway budget simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/3/u... #AI

In the mid-'80s I was deep into #AmateurRadio, and the Sony ICF-7600D (cousin to the ICF-2002) was my very first receiver. No internet back then: just shortwave, hissing & fading across the bands, carrying the whole world into my room... anyone remember these? #hamradio

New Post: What Do You Do After Three Decades at Your Dream Company?: https://shish.substack.com/p/what-do-you-do-after-three-decades

Simone Giertz blew up in the 2010s as the “queen of shitty robots.” Now she’s shifted from chaotic YouTube builds to legit product design. spectrum.ieee.org/simone-giertz #robotics

Looking forward to #windsurfing again (after a 2 year break) at the gorge in June. #hoodriverOR #hoodriver #pnw

Upload a photo → get a 3D-printed figurine of yourself. No humans in the loop. Built Mini Me, my 2nd experiment in autonomous #retail run entirely by #AI agents. The big lesson: don't make agents build everything, let them operate existing tools. www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-p...

Tracking seventy48.com tonight #pnw #seattle #pugetsound #salishsea

yeah.. im that old that I remember receiving these in my mailbox source www.bonanza.com/listings/Rar... #microsoft #tbt

Target’s Intro to #Retail breaks down fundamentals, key terms, pitch decks, retail channels & DTC marketing; all in one place. A must‑bookmark for emerging founders accelerators.target.com/learning-tra...