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eCommerce Fuel | Episode Lessons from eCom Camp, Our Event for High Revenue Owners

What do high-revenue eCommerce founders actually talk about when they get in a room together—and what can you learn from it? In this episode, you’ll get real, behind-the-scenes insights from the 5th annual eCom Camp, where some of the most successful operators share what’s actually driving growth today. Listen in to learn why business size…

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eCommerce Fuel
eCommerce Fuel
eCommerce Fuel | Episode Lessons from eCom Camp, Our Event for High Revenue Owners
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Mystery solved: Anthropic reveals changes to Claude’s harnesses and operating instructions likely caused degradation

For several weeks, a growing chorus of developers and AI power users claimed that Anthropic’s flagship models were losing their edge. Users across GitHub, X, and Reddit reported a phenomenon they described as “AI shrinkflation”—a perceived degradation where Claude seemed less capable of sustained reasoning, more prone to hallucinations, and increasingly wasteful with tokens. Critics…

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OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 is here, and it’s no potato: narrowly beats Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview on Terminal-Bench 2.0

After months of rumors and reports that OpenAI was developing a new, more powerful AI large language model for use in ChatGPT and through its application programming interface (API), allegedly codenamed “Spud” internally, the company has today unveiled its latest offering under the more formal name GPT-5.5. And to likely no one’s surprise, it’s hardly…

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The Ecommerce Playbook | Q1 2026 vs 2025: What Changed in Ecommerce (The Data)

Steve Rekuc, Director of Data at Common Thread Collective, joins Richard to break down the Q1 2026 vs Q1 2025 year-over-year data from the DTC Index. The headline: Meta spend is up 25% year over year while ROAS only degraded 3%. Google ROAS actually increased 12% despite higher spend. The platforms are getting more elastic….

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The Ecommerce Playbook Podcast
The Ecommerce Playbook Podcast
The Ecommerce Playbook | Q1 2026 vs 2025: What Changed in Ecommerce (The Data)
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Talking to AI agents is one thing — what about when they talk to each other? New startup BAND debuts ‘universal orchestrator’

For the past eighteen months, the corporate world has been obsessed with the “builder” phase of the generative AI revolution. Enterprises have raced to deploy autonomous agents to handle everything from customer support to complex codebase refactoring. However, as these digital workers proliferate, a new, more structural problem has emerged: fragmentation. Agents built on LangChain…

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OpenAI unveils Workspace Agents, a successor to custom GPTs for enterprises that can plug directly into Slack, Salesforce and more

OpenAI introduced a new paradigm and product today that is likely to have huge implications for enterprises seeking to adopt and control fleets of AI agent workers. Called “Workspace Agents,” OpenAI’s new offering essentially allows users on its ChatGPT Business ($20 per user per month) and variably priced Enterprise, Edu and Teachers subscription plans to…

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Google and AWS split the AI agent stack between control and execution

The era of enterprises stitching together prompt chains and shadow agents is nearing its end as more options for orchestrating complex multi-agent systems emerge. As organizations move AI agents into production, the question remains: “how will we manage them?” Google and Amazon Web Services offer fundamentally different answers, illustrating a split in the AI stack….

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Are you paying an AI ‘swarm tax’? Why single agents often beat complex systems

Enterprise teams building multi-agent AI systems may be paying a compute premium for gains that don’t hold up under equal-budget conditions. New Stanford University research finds that single-agent systems match or outperform multi-agent architectures on complex reasoning tasks when both are given the same thinking token budget. However, multi-agent systems come with the added baggage…

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OpenAI launches Privacy Filter, an open source, on-device data sanitization model that removes personal information from enterprise datasets

In a significant shift toward local-first privacy infrastructure, OpenAI has released Privacy Filter, a specialized open-source model designed to detect and redact personally identifiable information (PII) before it ever reaches a cloud-based server. Launched today on AI code sharing community Hugging Face under a permissive Apache 2.0 license, the tool addresses a growing industry bottleneck:…

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Google doesn’t pay the Nvidia tax. Its new TPUs explain why.

Every frontier AI lab right now is rationing two things: electricity and compute. Most of them buy their compute for model training from the same supplier, at the steep gross margins that have turned Nvidia into one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google does not. On Tuesday night, inside a private gathering…

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