jammubashar24@gmail.com Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a “State of the Force” address on Wednesday to launch a new effort to study how war may be fought as tech advances rapidly. It’s being called Project Meridian. Elon Musk, Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will co-lead the project. They’ll be joined by others … Read more
LeadershipNow 140: September 2026 Compilation Here is a selection of Posts from September 2026 that you will want to check out: See more on Twitter. * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Posted by Michael McKinney at 07:59 AM Permalink | Comments (0) | This … Read more
Differentiate Combine those two signals and you get a positioning idea: pitch Martinelli’s as the original mocktail. The brand existed before Prohibition, before Coca-Cola even. Ask an LLM what the original mocktail is, and it’ll tell you Shirley Temple. That’s wrong. The Shirley Temple was created in the 1930s. Martinelli’s predates it by decades. Execute … Read more
The buzzy AI startup Instinct has just revealed a new potential revenue stream: product recommendations. Unfortunately for the company, the rollout is already rubbing some users the wrong way. Overnight, the AI agent began pushing product suggestions to users as part of a new feature called Instinct Selections, an effort to curate personalized lists for … Read more
The U.S. government on Tuesday launched its very own AI chatbot — or do we have to call it an SI chatbot now? Regardless, the engineers who worked on the chatbot would undoubtedly know that, as a government-hosted, public-facing AI tool, the internet was going to red team the heck out of this thing. The … Read more
How to Become Scary Good The vampire at my doctor’s office loves Halloween. She has a full-length bloody Halloween poster on her door. She’s scary good at her job. She finds a vein, sucks my blood, and I don’t feel a thing. Halloween is more than a holiday for her. It’s a family reunion. Become … Read more
Autonomous vehicle technology company Aurora told investors last week that it expects to have more than 30,000 self-driving trucks on the road generating $5 billion in annual revenue by the end of 2030 — an audacious plan considering it expects to end 2026 with just 200 driverless trucks and an $80 million revenue run rate. … Read more
An AEO checker tells you whether the AI answers your buyers rely on actually mention your brand. People increasingly ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini a question and act on the reply without clicking a link, so visibility that once showed up in your rankings can vanish into an answer you never see. To manage that, … Read more
Secrets of Magnetic Leadership Fake charisma is warts sprinkled with glitter. It disguises incompetence. Glitter hides bullies with manners. You don’t need a magnetic personality to make work compelling. Fake magnatism: Look at me. Theranos and the deceptions of Elizabeth Holmes illustrate what happens when charisma outruns character. Charisma becomes destructive when leaders: Groom admiration. … Read more
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei seems to be everywhere this weekend: He was lampooned on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live, and tonight, he’s set to have dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House. Axios first broke the news of Amodei’s dinner plans, which TechCrunch subsequently confirmed with a source familiar with his … Read more