Introducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99% accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents. We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI that does complex work inside Fortune 500 companies without hallucination. While code is too brittle, agents are too unpredictable. The work that runs the global economy - anti-money laundering, fraud investigations, underwriting - needs extreme accuracy. So we built a new kind of software that pairs the flexibility of AI with the predictability of code. When the world stays the same, Poetic runs fixed code: fast, cheap, identical every time. When the world changes, Poetic uses AI to regenerate its approach and find its way back to the objective. In one year, we went from zero to an eight-figure run rate as a team of four. Since then, we’ve scaled the team and executed the highest-stakes processes at AIG, SoFi, and Chime. At SoFi, a large US bank, Poetic reached 99% quality on fraud investigations in five weeks.

New Yorkers deserve safety as the standard on every ride. Two-person crews on our subways aren’t just common sense — they’re essential.

Kudlow is right: inflation is coming down, interest rates are coming down, and tax cuts are coming in 2026. These are the conditions for a Reagan-like economic boom. Just as important, we have an AI investment super-cycle driving an extra 2% of GDP growth. Democrats like Bernie Sanders have figured this out, so they are doing everything they can to sabotage the infrastructure build-out. Republicans should not be gaslit about this. As with Climate Change, most of the concerns have been amplified to hoax level.

Nineteen Eighty-Four and Twenty Twenty-Five: A condensed version of my Orwell lecture from last night, just published in The Times. thetimes.com/comment/columni…