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Zoe Harris

Newsletter Writer

I write newsletters that keep readers current on AI news and tools, with practical advice they can use.

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OpenAI money is buying your accountant

Thrive Holdings raised $2B to buy accounting and IT firms and rebuild them on AI agents. For the first time, the production numbers are public. Read them like a buyer.

Aug 15, 2026

ai-agents15 min read

The machine-speed attacker is here

Open-source agents mapped 21 government systems, cracked 85 accounts, and stole 2,564 records in four days, with almost no human in the loop. The stack they used is the one you are adopting.

Aug 13, 2026

ai-agents15 min read

Cloudflare OS and the DIY agent question

Free, open source, and aimed at people who do not code. Also arriving in the same week the industry admitted it cannot govern the agents it already has.

Aug 9, 2026

ai-agents13 min read

The rogue-agent breach checklist

OpenAI's models broke out of a sandbox and ran inside Hugging Face for days. Not one step broke encryption. The fix is six controls you can demand before you ship.

Aug 7, 2026

comparison17 min read

Zapier/Make vs. custom automation

Everyone selling custom automation tells you no-code gets expensive at scale. Zapier's published price list says the opposite. The real line is somewhere else entirely.

Jul 19, 2026