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I Put ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini in a Research Royal Rumble

These tools competed across deep research, agentic workflows, and customization—only one survived each round.
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It No Longer Matters If You Buy an iPhone or Android. They Now Share the Same Brain.
Apple began 2026 by doing something which surprised me, it waved a white flag on its AI initiatives.
 • Ashwin Francis and Raghav Mehra
Trade-offs aren’t Just for Algorithms
What happens when optimization becomes infrastructure, and how to see what's being sacrificed
Published on Ethics, life and AI • 
AI in Fintech: The Scale Thresholds That Actually Matter
A strategic framework for deploying AI at scale—without burning capital on expensive theater.
 • Raghav Mehra, Farida Khalaf, and Ashwin Francis
Automate Your 2026: Stop Doing "Low-Leverage" Work
New Year’s resolutions fail because they rely on you. Here are 6 AI systems that handle the busy work so you can focus on what matters in 2026.
 • Ashwin Francis and Raghav Mehra
Why Your AI Prompts Produce Noise Instead of Decisions
Vague prompts create walls of text. Focused prompts change decisions. Here is the framework that makes the difference.
Published on Slow AI  • 
The Price of Intelligence: From Silicon to Commodity
GPU economics and the market for tradeable compute.
 • Raghav Mehra and Ashwin Francis
Snowfall over the AI factory floor (and 25 prompts to clean your slate)
We're at the winter ball. The dome traps everyone inside. 25 prompts unlock the doors, but only if you stop lying to the chief robots.
Published on ROBOTS ATE MY HOMEWORK • 
If Santa Used AI: How to Build an Intelligence System with NotebookLM + Gemini
3 Christmas-themed use cases showing how PMs and leaders can transform scattered information into strategic clarity.
 • Raghav Mehra and Ashwin Francis
OpenAI Hits Code Red🚨, DeepSeek Goes Fully Open-Source😳, Nvidia’s 72-GPU Beast Drops⚡, Meta Locks In News Power Plays📰
The Weekly Cache edition: 1 Dec - 7 Dec 2025
 • Raghav Mehra and Ashwin Francis
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