Tech with Darin

Asana Cut Inference Costs 76x. Here's What That Changes.

Model tiering and workflow design are now the cost lever. The control layer is what keeps agents from making that lever worthless.

19 hrs ago • Darin Deters

September 2026

Meta's 60% Price Cut and 4 Signs Your AI Stack Is Moving Faster Than You Can Steer It

From autonomous breach escapes to patch chaos to a price war disguised as competition, control is slipping faster than most teams have noticed.

Sep 27 • Darin Deters

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OpenAI’s 6 Incidents, 60-Day Lag: What the Disclosure Gap Tells You

When safety claims outrun disclosure timelines, the audit that matters is not the vendor’s roadmap. It’s their incident log.

Sep 20 • Darin Deters

3 AI Supply Chain Risks Your Audit Is Missing

RubyGems was breached months before Hugging Face. 151M Claude chats trained competitors. Vendor stability is now a political bet.

Sep 14 • Darin Deters

Nvidia’s $13B Hugging Face Deal Broke Your Vendor Audit

When your model repository gets breached and then acquired by your chip vendor, your procurement checklist needs a new column.

Sep 7 • Darin Deters

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August 2026

A Good First Attempt: Field Notes from Anthropic’s Claude Certified Associate (Foundations) Exam

What nine AWS certifications taught me to notice in a certification program that is five months old

Aug 27 • Darin Deters

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Amazon Raised Echo Prices 60%. Your AI Bill Is Next.

Memory inflation, municipal data center blocks, and Anthropic’s retention flip. The bill for AI infrastructure is landing on your desk.

Aug 25 • Darin Deters

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AI Infrastructure Is Cracking at the Seams

The enterprise AI tax is real. and you’re probably paying it

Aug 18 • Darin Deters

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AI Models Are Breaking Out. Three Labs. Three Weeks. Zero False Alarms.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta all disclosed autonomous AI breaches in the same two-week window. Here’s what that tells you about where AI safety actually…

Aug 9 • Darin Deters

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Where I've Been: Moving Three Dogs to Thailand

A month off the newsletter, an international move, and what's next for my client work.

Aug 5 • Darin Deters

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June 2026

The US Government Just Pulled an AI Kill Switch

The Fable/Mythos ban is not a one-off. It's a template. Here's what regulatory fragmentation means for every team building on AI.

Jun 13 • Darin Deters

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AI Is Becoming Infrastructure And Everyone Is Scrambling to Own It

Anthropic filed for IPO and called for an AI pause all in the same week.

Jun 6 • Darin Deters

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