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TL;DR: Things are moving really fast. Personal bots are flying around, and much of the team is rebuilding their workflows in real time. So we’re bringing Context Window to Wednesdays, too, to give you a more immediate look at what we’re experimenting with, what’s working, and what’s breaking. Think of it as a peek inside our notebook or our codebase. Also on Wednesdays: a new episode of our podcast AI & I, this week on the world’s slowest incubator.—Kate Lee

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‘AI & I’: Building unsexy companies

Today, we’re releasing a new episode of our podcast AI & I, where Dan Shipper sits down with Sam Gerstenzang and Dan Friedman, partners at Boulton and Watt, which they claim to be the “world’s slowest startup incubator.” They discuss building the kind of companies that Silicon Valley usually overlooks—like medical spas and funeral homes—and how even these firms are implementing AI. Friedman founded and sold Thinkful, a coding school backed by investor Peter Thiel, and Gerstenzang most recently led a 75-person payment user interface group at Stripe, as well as spent some time investing at Andreessen Horowitz.

Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. You can also read the transcript.

Here are the highlights: