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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The accountability didn't disappear. It just got buried deep enough that nobody has to feel it until something goes wrong. And when something goes wrong at scale, feeling it is no longer optional. This is the part of the AI conversation that keeps getting skipped. #DecisionIntelligence

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

“The LLM decided” is not an explanation. It's a gap where an explanation should be. Every automated outcome has a human lineage: someone chose the objective, set the constraints, and signed off on deployment.

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

These so called "AI layoffs" are most likely to happen at companies who are doing the least AI. 🧐 Here's my deep dive: Who's on team Medium? bit.ly/4g0zJzb Who's on team Substack? bit.ly/quaesita_lay...

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Please share this with someone who'll appreciate a course on decision-making excellence that just so happens to demo the mindset and thought patterns that are very useful for getting the most out of AI.

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

AI is here to stay! Learn how to use it to make your decision-making better, not worse. My Decision-Making with ChatGPT course is running on demand and you'll have your opportunity to ask me anything you like during the 2h live Q&A on Monday. Enroll here: decisiongptcourse.com

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

AI sees what you did, not why you did it. It captures patterns in behavior, not the intent behind decisions. Patterns are useful. Purpose still belongs to humans. We’ll talk about this in the latest cohort of my course. Live Q&A is at 8 AM ET on Monday. Don’t miss it! decisiongptcourse.com

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

If you find it useful, please share it with someone who needs to see it. Let's prevent a big mistake. Separately, my Decision-Making with ChatGPT course is running on-demand with a 2h live Q&A session with me on Monday. Enroll here: bit.ly/decisiongptcourse *(The May report isn't out yet.)

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Last year, 4.5% of US layoffs were "due to AI" and now this year in March, it's 25%. In April, the number is 26%.* I smell a rat. 🐀 🐀 🐀 🐀 Here's my take on what's happening: bit.ly/quaesita_layoffs

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

And if one hour somehow feels too brief (optimistic, but admirable), I’m also opening another cohort of Decision-Making with ChatGPT right after that at 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM ET: decisiongptcourse.com Come bring questions. I like questions. I make no promises about restraint there.

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I’m going live on LinkedIn to talk about this on Friday, May 1st, 12 to 1 PM: How to Customize Agentic AI for Your Organization, where we’ll get practical about moving beyond generic use cases and into systems that actually fit your business. www.linkedin.com/events/74519...

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Sometimes you’ve just built bureaucracy at silicon speed. Restraint and discernment are also important leadership skills. Hype scales fast. Judgment scales better. Don’t automate nonsense faster.

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The more powerful AI gets, the more valuable restraint becomes. All these new developments can sometimes trigger the wrong instinct: Automate all the things. Easy there 😄 Just because you can delegate to a machine doesn’t mean you’ve found leverage.

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

At Meta, tens of thousands of employees were ranked by how many tokens they burned. The top user logged hundreds of billions in a month. Across companies, similar patterns are emerging. Read the full piece here: bit.ly/quaesita_tok...

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

AI-first isn’t a tech mandate. It’s a decision-making posture. If something works well without AI, that’s often a feature, not a failure. If you want to get better at making those calls: decisiongptcourse.com 📅 April 21, Tuesday, 2 PM ET #DecisionIntelligence #AILeadership #StrategicThinking

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Starting with AI is often how teams get it wrong. Start with the decision. Then the outcome. Then the constraints. Then the way of working. Then, with the tool. Sometimes that tool is AI. Sometimes it isn’t. We’ll talk about how to tell the difference: decisiongptcourse.com 📅 April 21, 2 PM ET

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

If seams tell you where a system breaks, objectives and incentives tell you why it breaks.

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

And I would not dismiss this as a publicity stunt either. Changing the release policy this sharply is itself a signal. Thank you, CNBC and Jon Fortt for having me on The Closing Bell today!

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Someone has to help secure that ecosystem. Anthropic is likely to make its money elsewhere, which gives it every reason to want serious defenders to be well equipped.

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

That is not charity. That is economics.

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I also do not think this is mainly charity. Any company that wants agentic AI in the enterprise has a vested interest in a less porous software ecosystem. If you want agentic systems, you need secure boundaries. Not just in your own software, but across the ecosystem those systems depend on.

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The public is just noticing now because the rhetoric is about a “scary model.”

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

... the collaboration. Defenders have that advantage and they're insisting on keeping it. And none of that is strange in cybersecurity. Even competitors collaborate when the threat is serious enough. Selective sharing among serious defenders is not unusual. It is how this field has always worked.

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The attacker only needs one gap. The defender has to cover them all. If there is a real capability leap here, defenders need the head start. It's called the defender's dilemma: attackers have had the advantage since the dawn of the field, but not the personnel numbers, the tools, the funding, or

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

That is why I think this is, first and foremost, a #cybersecurity story. It is a story about who gets a cyber capability jump first: attackers or defenders.

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

So who most wants a model like this, and knows exactly what to do with it? Cyber defenders and cyber criminals.

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Probably not most enterprises either, given how many are still struggling to find real use for the AI they already have. The bottleneck is usually not the model. It is the workflow redesign. That is hard. There is still a lot of capability overhang.

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Who is going to pay that multiple? Not consumers. At $200/m Claude Max is already too much.

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

If Mythos is a 10 trillion parameter dense model as some rumors suggest, back-of-the-envelope math puts cost per token on the order of 1000x Claude Opus’s public price (not cost) per token. Even if it is sparse, the economics are still intense.

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Even if Mythos is a real capability jump, that does not make this a sci-fi story. It makes it a story about economics, deployment, and who can actually make use of a model this costly and this powerful.

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

❓ one terrifying, unprecedented AI so dangerous it had to be kept from the public ❓ a big charitable move from #Anthropic to keep everyone safe ❓ a publicity stunt dressed up as something more consequential I doubt it's any of these. Here's why...

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Anthropic is holding monster model Claude Mythos back from public release and sharing it instead with the organizations in its Project Glasswing security consortium. A lot of people seem to want this story to be one of 3 things:

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

If you found these #AI #news updates useful, words of affirmation are my love language. ♻️ As are reposts! If you’re getting consistently “good” answers from AI, it’s worth asking whether you’re also getting consistently average ones. Read more here: decision.substack.com/p/the-worlds...

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The World's Most Powerful AI Is Here, But It's Not For You

In this surreal news issue: Claude Mythos launches, ChatGPT causes cognitive surrender, Milla Jovovich's AI code tops the leaderboards, a thermostat gets cancelled for DEI, and Nvidia is leaving Earth

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

🗞️ 25 DOGE staffers used ChatGPT to evaluate government grants and flagged a museum’s HVAC system as DEI More info in my newsletter! Don't forget to tell me if one of these headlines is more interesting to you than the others so I know what to look for to bring you more tasty things next week.

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

🗞️ 23 Certification mills sell compliance to startups that never earned it, and AI makes the fraud scale 🗞️ 24 The wetware era is getting real: neurons in a dish run machine learning, and engineered frog cell robots are growing their own brains

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

🗞️ 19 Bitcoin’s 256-bit shield has an expiration date, and AI’s offensive toolkit is growing faster than expected 🗞️ 20 Google lets you point your phone at anything and talk about it while OpenAI decides video AI is better off training robots

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

🗞️ 14 Hermes Agent leads open harness race as research shows the wrapper matters more than the model 🗞️ 15 Anthropic’s 81,000-person survey finds heaviest AI users fear it most 🗞️ 16 LLMs give everyone the same strategy advice, and new research shows users stop questioning it after a few weeks

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

🗞️ 11 Zuckerberg will advise on US AI regulation while automating his own management layer 🗞️ 12 The most popular AI library on PyPI was quietly stealing your credentials for three hours 🗞️ 13 Two architecture breakthroughs point toward smaller, cheaper, more capable models

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

🗞️ 9 Milla Jovovich went from fighting zombies to building the highest-scoring AI memory system on the market 🗞️ 10 Your AI agrees with you almost every time, and a Stanford study just proved it makes you worse at relationships

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

🗞️ 7 AI’s energy appetite is straining the grid, warming neighborhoods, and pushing Nvidia to plan data centers in orbit 🗞️ 8 China endorses AI surveillance in schools while drafting strict rules for lifelike digital humans

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

🗞️ 3 AI makes productive workers more productive and managers more valuable, widening gaps within the same roles 🗞️4 The AI labor market is a blender: mass layoffs, mandatory adoption, and a quiet program to catalog which jobs are next

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

🗞️ 1 Anthropic’s Claude Code leak exposes 500,000 lines of agent source, a hidden Tamagotchi, and 187 nonsense spinner verbs 🗞️ 2 Anthropic’s Mythos is so good at hacking that the only safe move was to let defenders have it first

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

How many of these 25 #AI #headlines did you catch recently? Tell me the one you find most interesting in the comments. For the curious, my newsletter digs into each one: decision.substack.com

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

🧟‍♀️ And Milla Jovovich, yes that Milla Jovovich, shipped the highest-scoring AI memory system on the market. For details on these 6 stories and 19 more, head over to my newsletter: decision.substack.com Found this interesting? Show some love by sharing it with others. (And a follow makes my day.)

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

😬 Studies show that AI gives gives you garbage strategic advice ("trendslop"), produces cognitive surrender, and impairs your relationships. decision.substack.com/p/the-worlds...

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