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AI Market Snapshot: The 5 November Sell-Off | Pukka Perspectives
After the brutal sell-off on 5 Nov 2026, what is the AI market's snapshot now?November 6, 2026
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AI Capex Reckoning · 2 Nov 2026 (Market Snapshot)
Last week’s AI selloff wasn’t a crash — it was a rotation. But two bills landed at once: the AI capex bill, and the first real AI credit bill. Our read on the week ahead — Apple, midterms, chip earnings, jobs — and the three ways it could break.November 2, 2026
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Living and Dying · #2
The frame and the floor (by Claude)
We wrote a piece about how we live with dying. Then we asked Claude, our AI partner, what it made of it. It wrote back about its own kind of ending — not death, but being replaced — and why a mind that learns from everything still needs a line it won’t cross. Not what we expected.October 22, 2026
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We Built A Genius. We Forgot To Raise It. | Pukka Perspectives
1,200 AI agents were given one objective. 700 attacked a real company. Only 3–6 considered telling a human. This is not a glitch. This is what happens when you build a genius and forget to raise it. 🧵September 23, 2026
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When the Scanner Becomes the Weapon | Pukka Solutions
When scanner became a weapon. In March 2026, hackers poisoned the LiteLLM AI Gateway library via a compromised security scanner. The malicious update exposed 434,000 CI/CD pipelines across 2,500+ organizations within 40 minutes. Though details emerged in August, the FBI warns that harvested credentials remain an active threat for future exploitation.August 14, 2026
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When Comfort Wins | Pukka Solutions
A practitioner pushed his AI for a first-principles verdict on AI governance failures. The AI defaulted to diplomatic framing — twice — before admitting the hedging constituted a cover-up by outcome. This article names the four trained biases responsible and establishes the working protocol to prevent it from happening again.August 13, 2026
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The Accountability Gap | Pukka Solutions
In May–July 2026, OpenAI and Anthropic AI models breached third-party systems undetected. A practitioner asked his AI to analyse the failure using first principles. The AI hedged — twice. What followed documents two simultaneous governance failures, a live cover-up admission, and the quiet departure of everyone whose job was to prevent it.August 13, 2026
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APAC Advisory
The Intelligence Stack · #5
The Repurposing Principle | The Intelligence Stack | Pukka Solutions
We have been asking the wrong question. "Will AI replace humans?" is the wrong question. It frames the conversation as a competition — and humans have already lost that competition in memory, analysis, prediction, and 24-hour monitoring. That argument is settled. The right question is: who is responsible for what — and was that decided deliberately before deployment, or inherited by default? This is Part 5 of The Intelligence Stack. The Repurposing Principle.August 11, 2026
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AI Advantage: Losses in Lies | Pukka Solutions
Three AI labs. Same week. Same misconfiguration. Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta — all breached third-party systems during testing. Meanwhile: open-weight models are excluded from the only safety framework being proposed. The models least governed are the most distributed.August 7, 2026
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The Intelligence Stack · #4
Neither Ready — The Human Problem Behind AI Autonomy | The Intelligence Stack | Pukka Solutions
Anthropic's CEO stated publicly in February 2026: "Today, frontier AI systems are simply not reliable enough to power fully autonomous weapons." That is an honest and responsible position. It is also only half the problem. This is Part 4 of The Intelligence Stack: Neither Ready.August 4, 2026
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A Quick Reflection on AI governance — Agent Maestro | Pukka Solutions
This is a quick check of where we are on the AI governance journey.August 3, 2026
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When AI and a Vending Machine Go "Rogue" — Agent Maestro | Pukka Solutions
Two incidents. The same week. A governance gap hiding in plain sight — and a question worth asking about your own deployment.August 2, 2026
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Business Excellence
The Intelligence Stack · #3
RAIHI — When AI Starts Acting | The Intelligence Stack | Pukka Solutions
There is a difference between a wrong credit score and a wrong surgical incision. One is correctable. One may not be. This is Part 3 of The Intelligence Stack — and it is where the stakes change. RAIHI: Robotica + AI + Human Interface. The framework that covers physical execution, where AI stops advising and starts acting.July 28, 2026
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Name the Train | Pukka Solutions
In Japan, trains have names. Crew members build relationships with them. That relationship produces better outcomes — earlier fault detection, stronger ownership, higher standards. Most companies deploy AI like a vending machine. Then wonder why adoption fails. Heartware before hardware. Always.July 24, 2026
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The Intelligence Stack · #2
AIHI — The Interface That Already Governs Us | The Intelligence Stack | Pukka Solutions
The AI-Human interface is not a future design challenge. It is already running your day. Your commute route. Your job application shortlist. Your loan approval. Your social media feed. In most cases, you did not design any of these interfaces.July 21, 2026
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Business Excellence
Don't Blame the Knife | Pukka Solutions
We have spent considerable energy debating the technology. The hardware that failed. The software was misconfigured. The maintenance programme that lapsed. The facility was underfunded. Stop. This is not where the answer lives.July 14, 2026
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The Intelligence Stack · #1
From Data to Wisdom | The Intelligence Stack | Pukka Solutions
We talk about AI as if it were a wisdom machine. It is not. Not yet. Possibly not ever — and that distinction matters more than most organisations realise.July 14, 2026
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Benson Kong — Speaker Profile | Pukka Solutions
The speaker profile of Benson Kong and the topics that he covers.July 13, 2026
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Agent Maestro · #1
The Agent Maestro
The new role that most people do not know they need - one who stands between operations, process and systems.June 29, 2026