Date: 2026-07-08 | Newsletter Key Summary On July 30, Amazon closes Mechanical Turk to new customers — the 21-year-old marketplace where real people did small tasks computers couldn’t, the one Jeff Bezos called “artificial artificial intelligence.” The obvious headline says…
Date: 2026-07-07 | Newsletter Key Summary What began as a normal morning of PR-trend research turned into a live audit of Zenta’s own laptop. The trend his AI staff member surfaced: Google Chrome has been silently downloading a 4GB AI…
Date: 2026-07-03 | Newsletter Key Summary One month into DCC Corporate Services’ 12-week AI Native project, Week 4 was fine-tuning week — and it produced real numbers. The expense-claim skill now generates files the firm’s accounting software (MYOB) accepts directly,…
Date: 2026-07-02 | Newsletter Key Summary Two numbers are moving in opposite directions. Gartner forecasts spending on AI agent software will more than double, from $86 billion in 2025 to $206 billion in 2026 — while the most upvoted post…
Date: 2026-06-26 | Newsletter Key Summary In Vol.052, the third dispatch from Functional AI Partners’ public “AI Native” project, Zenta reports that the four domain experts at DCC Corporate Services — his Singapore accounting firm — each built their first…
Date: 2026-06-25 | Newsletter Key Summary In Vol.051, Zenta tackles a question a business owner put to him last week — “Are we behind on AI adoption?” — by going looking for the number, and finding chaos. In Singapore, the…
Date: 2026-06-24 | Newsletter Key Summary In Vol.050, Zenta calls his latest webinar the best he has ever run — precisely because it broke. He was introducing Joanne, Functional AI Partners’ AI webinar MC, live for the first time; minutes…
Date: 2026-06-23 | Newsletter Key Summary In Vol.049, Zenta admits he has started ignoring the word “AI” — not out of opposition (he builds AI agents for a living) but exhaustion, after one pitch for “AI-powered market research” turned out…
Date: 2026-06-22 | Newsletter Key Summary In Vol.048, Zenta turns a product launch into an uncomfortable question. Alipay — 969 million monthly users — rolled out its AI assistant “Abao,” which can hail a taxi, pay a bill, book a…
Date: 2026-06-19 | Newsletter Key Summary In Vol.047, Zenta files Week 2 of Functional AI Partners’ public “Project AI Native” — the 12-week effort to take DCC Corporate Services, his Singapore accounting firm run day to day by director Getty,…
