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Quanta Bits

Podcast door Reza

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Cultuur & Vrije Tijd

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Business operations, automation, and AI don't have to be complicated. Every week, Quanta Bits breaks down what's actually changing for mid-market companies: what's working, what's hype, and what operational leaders should pay attention to. Hosted by Reza Morakabati, founder of Quanta Management and MIT Sloan alum.  The companion to the Quanta Bits newsletter.

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The Build-It-Yourself Discount Is Expiring

This week on Quanta Bits, Reza looks at why the build-it-yourself AI moment is still exciting, but the cost assumptions underneath it are getting less stable. Anthropic's pricing and access changes are the hook, but the bigger issue is industry-wide: capacity constraints, massive data center buildout, model routing, and the gap between a cheap-feeling prototype and a recurring workflow that runs on real tokens and real infrastructure. The episode covers my own shift from Claude/OpenClaw toward Codex for parts of my workflow, why AI usage is a poor proxy for value, why companies should route work across models instead of using the most expensive model everywhere, and why leaders should keep building while checking the economics before workflows scale.

17 mei 2026 - 8 min
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The AI Bill Needs an Owner

AI adoption is moving from experimentation to operations. This week, I look at why the "AI bill" needs an owner, not just because of tokens and software spend, but because AI work touches workflows, data quality, reviews, exceptions, trust, and accountability. The cloud era gave us CloudOps and FinOps once spend and ownership became too messy to ignore. AI may be heading in the same direction. The emerging work looks less like one big AI team and more like a set of operating roles: AI workflow owners, agent coordinators, AI cost analysts, quality leads, and context and data stewards. I also cover signals from Microsoft Agent 365, Cisco's agentic AI research, AWS agent payments, Anthropic finance agents, and the strange but telling rise of wave-powered floating data centers. Plus, a quick After Hours note on 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.

9 mei 2026 - 10 min
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The White Collar Reckoning

Anthropic published actual data on who AI is displacing, and it's not who most people expect. The most exposed group? People with graduate degrees earning 47% more than average. Computer, math, business, legal, and management roles are all above 90% exposed. But only 33% of that work is actually being done by AI today. That 61-point gap doesn't close on its own. It closes when leadership decides how fast to push, what to measure, and who's accountable. Also this week: Jack Dorsey cuts 40% of Block's workforce and Wall Street rewards him. AI models fail nuclear de-escalation simulations 95% of the time. Google's NotebookLM generates full cinematic video from your documents. And Burger King puts an AI coach in every employee's headset. Companion to Quanta Bits Issue 6. Full newsletter with sources: quantabits.beehiiv.com

9 mrt 2026 - 5 min
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