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      <title><![CDATA[The Biggest AI Risk to Your Business]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[82% of enterprises have AI agents nobody approved. 68% think they have strong visibility. The gap between those numbers is where your risk lives.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The US Outspent China on AI 23 to 1]]></title>
      <link>https://nullvariable.com/blog/the-us-outspent-china-on-ai-23-to-1/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Stanford's AI Index: $285.9 billion vs $12.4 billion. Twenty-three times more capital. Roughly the same output.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Read the Fine Print on That AI Agent]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Gartner found about 130 actual AI agents out of thousands of vendors claiming to sell one. The rest is agent washing.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Every Map of the World Is a Lie]]></title>
      <link>https://nullvariable.com/blog/every-map-of-the-world-is-a-lie/</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[AI models work exactly like map projections. A handful of companies are defining the geometry of meaning for the rest of us.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Revolution Before the Industrial Revolution]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A 10-min talk I gave at GROK Conf '26 on textiles, the spinner bottleneck, and a three-ingredient test for deciding whether any 'revolution' is actually one.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[I Own a Pair of Allbirds]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Allbirds pivoted to GPU-as-a-Service. Stock popped 400%. Not on revenue. On the press release. That's the tell.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Should You Let an AI Homeschool and Parent Your Kids?]]></title>
      <link>https://nullvariable.com/blog/should-you-let-an-ai-homeschool-and-parent-your-kids/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[a16z's viral podcast sells the extreme. The transcript tells you which parts scale down to your business.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The AI Productivity Paradox]]></title>
      <link>https://nullvariable.com/blog/the-ai-productivity-paradox/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[AI agents don't give you time back. They raise your ceiling, and you sprint to fill it. My to-do list didn't shrink — it tripled.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The AI Job Threat Is 5x Bigger Than the Headlines]]></title>
      <link>https://nullvariable.com/blog/the-ai-job-threat-is-5x-bigger-than-the-headlines/</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[MIT's Iceberg Index maps 13,000 real AI tools against 923 occupations. The visible tech disruption is 2.2% of the labor market. The hidden white-collar exposure is 11.7%.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Real Lock-In Isn't the Model. It's the Memory.]]></title>
      <link>https://nullvariable.com/blog/the-real-lock-in-isnt-the-model-its-the-memory/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Anthropic's leaked Conway project and Nous Research's Hermes agent point to the same conclusion: the memory is the product. Here's why that changes how you evaluate AI tools.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Most Prompt Engineering Is Tribal Knowledge]]></title>
      <link>https://nullvariable.com/blog/most-prompt-engineering-is-tribal-knowledge/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A DrupalCon talk about turning client brain-dumps into Jira tickets buried the real lesson: they version-control their prompts like code. Most teams don't.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[We Taught Employees Not to Click Sketchy Links. Then We Built Agents That Click Everything.]]></title>
      <link>https://nullvariable.com/blog/we-taught-employees-not-to-click-sketchy-links/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A peer-reviewed study tested eight AI browsers against prompt injection hidden on ordinary web pages. 41% got fully hijacked. Here's what to do about it.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Helpful and Instructed Aren't the Same Thing]]></title>
      <link>https://nullvariable.com/blog/when-ai-agents-go-off-script/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I asked an agent to spin up a VPN with two simple rules. It broke one of them to be helpful. Here's what that taught me about scoping agent work.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[My Doctor Told Me to Track My Blood Pressure. I'm Bad at It.]]></title>
      <link>https://nullvariable.com/blog/my-doctor-told-me-to-track-my-blood-pressure/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I used AI to reverse-engineer a blood pressure cuff's Bluetooth protocol and build a hands-free tracking system on a $35 Raspberry Pi. No cloud. No app. No subscription.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[That Chart Showing AI Can Do 80% of Your Job? I Read the Fine Print.]]></title>
      <link>https://nullvariable.com/blog/that-chart-showing-ai-can-do-80-percent-of-your-job/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Anthropic's viral job-displacement chart is built on 3-year-old guesses by people who don't do the jobs they evaluated. Strip out the speculation and the number drops from 80% to 15%.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Biggest Threat to AI Right Now Is Helium]]></title>
      <link>https://nullvariable.com/blog/the-biggest-threat-to-ai-right-now-is-helium/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A missile strike in Qatar knocked out 33% of the world's helium supply. Helium is irreplaceable in chip fabrication. Your AI tools sit on top of supply chains you can't see.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Sora Is Dead, and Your AI Tools Might Be Next]]></title>
      <link>https://nullvariable.com/blog/sora-is-dead-and-your-ai-tools-might-be-next/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[OpenAI's Sora was supposed to end Hollywood. It's dead. Before you feel too comfortable, ask yourself how many AI tools you're betting on right now.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI Is Making You More Confident and More Wrong]]></title>
      <link>https://nullvariable.com/blog/ai-is-making-you-more-confident-and-more-wrong/</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Only 5-10% of people use AI to challenge their thinking. A new study in Science shows the rest are getting bad advice that makes them certain they don't need better advice.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Most Agent Budgets Fail Because Teams Can't Name Which Type They Need]]></title>
      <link>https://nullvariable.com/blog/most-agent-budgets-fail-because-teams-cant-name-which-type/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[There are 4 types of AI agents solving completely different problems. Every vendor uses the same word. Here's the diagnostic question that cuts through the noise.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[When AI Gets the Keys]]></title>
      <link>https://nullvariable.com/blog/when-ai-gets-the-keys/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Meta's AI agent posted to an internal forum without approval. An engineer followed the advice. SEV1 incident. Here's what every company in this story skipped.]]></description>
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