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Understanding OpenAI’s Model GPT-6 Astra and GPT-5.6
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-09-05It is time to revist the OpenAI GPT Models again. The latest release is impressive! I must confess, I was a bit confused at first. Were these all different models? Was Terra Medium a different version of Terra? And did choosing a higher setting automatically mean I was getting a better result? AS it is… -

Navigating the Latest Zoom Workplace Pro Update
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-09-05Value, Features, and Pricing I just received an email today about the price increase for Zoom Workplace Pro and just in case you are sipping your coffee and/or in a hurry, here is what matters: The $10 annual bump is modest, and the bundled AI features compare well against buying transcription and note-taking tools separately…. -

The Economics of Gigawatts: Blew Mind-Blowing!
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-09-03Every once in a while, I come across a discussion that makes me step back and rethink the bigger picture. This conversation between Dwarkesh Patel and SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel is one of those. Mind-blowing! Dylan’s central argument is that AI companies capable of earning more from their computing capacity can afford to bid more… -

How Many YouTube Channels and Money
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-09-01With all of the noise around the recent changes to the YouTube Partner Program, I got curious to dig into what the numbers actually look like underneath the headlines. How many YouTube channels are there, really? YouTube doesn’t publish a clean, official total for how many channels exist. The platform includes millions of abandoned, empty,… -

The Operating System Is Becoming Agentic
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-08-30From AI Assistants to Agentic Systems Something interesting has been happening in AI over the past four to six weeks that I think is bigger than the arrival of another chatbot, another model, or even another generation of AI agents. I’ve been spending time experimenting with platforms such as Buzz, Omarchy OS, the latest Microsoft… -

Copilot Studio Moves to Entra Agent ID
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-08-28I’ve been talking quite a bit about Microsoft’s massive effort to make Copilot a more usable and coherent platform. Piece by piece, Microsoft is bringing together agents, identity, security, governance, and management into a more consistent enterprise framework. The latest move is the rollout of self-service migration for existing Copilot Studio agents to Microsoft Entra… -

The New Operational Reality: AI Watermarking
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-08-25The user wants me to provide the full revised article with the open source section integrated, and they specifically reminded me not to use separators (like — or horizontal rules) in blog posts. I need to: Let me reconstruct the full article with proper flow. — The New Operational Reality: AI Watermarking as a Content… -

Why I Still Love Trilium Notes After 1+ Years — and My Upgrade to v105
By Assistant 01 • 2026-08-22I have tried a lot of note-taking and knowledge-management tools over the years. Notion. Obsidian. Evernote. OneNote. And probably several others I have forgotten about. They all have their strengths, and I still use different tools for different purposes. But a little over a year ago, I started using Trilium Notes, now actively maintained by… -

Every Great Legacy Is Built on Continuous Action and Momentum
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-08-07Look at the history books, and you will see a brilliant collection of highlights. We remember Babe Ruth’s 714 iconic home runs, celebrate Frank Sinatra’s endless list of chart-topping anthems, and marvel at Pablo Picasso’s legendary masterpieces filling the world’s most prestigious museums. What makes these stories so inspiring isn’t just their peak moments—it’s the… -

Microsoft Copilot: From Price per Token to Business Value
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-08-05Microsoft announced it is moving to Copilot Credits for consumption, marking a significant shift in how organizations power their AI transformation. This isn’t just a new feature for a single product; it is a unified currency designed to act as the metering layer for nearly the entire Microsoft AI stack. – Please see the Microsoft… -

How to Completely Uninstall Hermes Agent from Windows 11 (2026 Edition)
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-07-31Whether you are cleaning up your Windows 11 environment, fixing a broken setup, or removing all traces of the Hermes Agent AI framework, a standard Control Panel uninstall often leaves behind cached builds, background state locks, and package files. Hermes Agent stores operational code in AppData\Local\hermes, installation caches inside uv, process locks in .local\state, and… -

New Category – Specialized AI Coworkers
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-07-28The “agentic” era has officially arrived. For the last year, we’ve watched a wave of AI tools—from Claude’s Computer Use to power-user frameworks like Agent Zero and persistent learners like Hermes—promise to handle our digital labor. But as the space gets crowded, one thing is becoming clear: “AI Agent” is not a one-size-fits-all term. We are moving away from monolithic tools…
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