Anupam Kundu

The Real Bottleneck When Intelligence Becomes Abundant For years, we were told that innovation comes from serendipity. Great breakthroughs happened by accident. A mistake in a lab. A curious observation. A lucky deviation. Consultants romanticized the discovery process. Innovation labs institutionalized it. Professors built frameworks around it. Create collisions. Encourage randomness. Wait for magic. Voila! I think that framing made sense when intelligence was scarce, access to knowledge was...

I don’t have a subscription to The Wall Street Journal . However, sometimes the most interesting AI stories slip through the paywall anyway. This one did. Over the past year, Anthropic and The Wall Street Journal  ran a pair of experiments that sound innocent and funny on the surface: letting AI agents run a vending machine. You know the usual stuff that vending machine operators do Stock items. Set prices. Respond to users. Try to make a profit. Simple, right? It turned out to be one of the...

Co-written with Arthur Prévot "It's very, very difficult — even for people working on the products — to know the difference between what we say in a demo, what's on a road map, and what's actually in production. It's a full-time job just figuring that out."  Quote from a Salesforce employee as reported by Business Insider  reporter Ashley Stewart. The New Gold Rush Every few years, technology rediscovers its own illusion of speed. Today , it’s AI-enabled automations. Tools like n8n, Make,...