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Business operations, automation, and AI don't have to be complicated. Every week, Quanta Bits breaks down what's actually changing for mid-market companies: what's working, what's hype, and what operational leaders should pay attention to. Hosted by Reza Morakabati, founder of Quanta Management and MIT Sloan alum.  The companion to the Quanta Bits newsletter.

  1. 6월 27일

    The Agent Ate the Interface

    This week on Quanta Bits, I talk through why Notion winding down its Mail inbox is a useful signal for enterprise software. Systems of record are not disappearing, but agents may change where work starts. If an agent can read, route, and eventually write back across CRM, email, ticketing, documents, and finance systems, a new application request needs a different review lane. We need the old CIO questions and the new AI questions in the same conversation: what data is touched, who owns the workflow, what can the agent do, where does human approval sit, and whether the value is really in the interface. I also cover quick hits on frontier model access as a continuity risk, compute becoming a finance problem, Bain using AI-generated software replicas in private equity diligence, why companies need to get moving on internal agentic capability, and a short After Hours note on 2666 and Jack Ryan: Ghost War. Read the full issue: https://quanta-bits-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/quanta-bits-june-27-2026 Subscribe to Quanta Bits: https://quanta-bits-newsletter.beehiiv.com/subscribe

    10분

  2. 6월 21일

    Don't Automate the Mess Just Because AI Made It Cheaper

    This week on Quanta Bits, I talk through why AI makes an old operations mistake easier to repeat: automating a messy process before asking whether it is consistent, simple, and owned. The episode uses deal review as the example, then connects it to OpenAI and Bain's "micro-productivity trap," Google's legal warning on AI summaries, Anthropic's capability-jump planning, Pew's AI trust data, Stanford's AI practice system for counselors, Addy Osmani's Orchestration Tax, Miro's SQL context-layer lesson, and a short After Hours note on The Hunt. Read the full issue: https://quanta-bits-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/quanta-bits-june-20-2026 Subscribe to Quanta Bits: https://quanta-bits-newsletter.beehiiv.com/subscribe

    12분

  3. 6월 20일

    AI's First Demand Is an Ownership Map

    This week on Quanta Bits, I talk through why the first real demand of AI agents may be an ownership map. Anyone can build an AI prototype now, but once that prototype needs access to CRM, ticketing, email, finance systems, or customer data, it becomes an enterprise decision. The episode covers why tool ownership is often unclear, why agents make that harder to ignore, and the four questions teams should answer before connecting agents to production systems. I also cover quick hits on Anthropic model access, rising AI costs, Mayo Clinic's AI cancer-screening work, and a short After Hours note on Eden and Middlemarch.

    10분

  4. 6월 3일

    AI's Public Relations Problem Is Becoming an Operating Problem

    This week on Quanta Bits, I look at why AI's public relations problem is becoming an operating problem. Student backlash, data center opposition, AI-labeled layoffs, hiring algorithms, and forced workplace adoption are all pointing to the same issue: trust is becoming part of the deployment work. If employees, customers, candidates, and communities do not believe AI is being used fairly, better messaging will not fix it. The episode covers the boring work companies need to do: explain the purpose of AI before rolling it out, give people appeal paths, redesign entry-level work instead of quietly deleting it, and treat trust as part of operations. I also cover a few quick hits from the issue, including algorithmic hiring loops, Anthropic's enterprise valuation story, and new research on sleep and brain health. After Hours this week is Hernan Diaz's Trust, which ended up being a very fitting pairing.

    10분

  5. 5월 25일

    From Decks to Working Surfaces

    This week on Quanta Bits, Reza looks at a practical workflow shift: using agents to separate the source layer from the presentation layer. Markdown can hold the facts, owners, risks, dates, and decisions. HTML, dashboards, diagrams, and other visual surfaces can help people understand the work quickly enough to review and discuss it. The episode connects that idea to recurring operating artifacts like pipeline reviews, status updates, project timelines, campaign trackers, and monthly initiative reviews. It also covers the broader pattern from the week: AI output is getting cheaper, review is becoming more important, and companies need clearer ways to inspect, route, and understand the work agents produce.

    8분

  6. 5월 17일

    The Build-It-Yourself Discount Is Expiring

    This week on Quanta Bits, Reza looks at why the build-it-yourself AI moment is still exciting, but the cost assumptions underneath it are getting less stable. Anthropic's pricing and access changes are the hook, but the bigger issue is industry-wide: capacity constraints, massive data center buildout, model routing, and the gap between a cheap-feeling prototype and a recurring workflow that runs on real tokens and real infrastructure. The episode covers my own shift from Claude/OpenClaw toward Codex for parts of my workflow, why AI usage is a poor proxy for value, why companies should route work across models instead of using the most expensive model everywhere, and why leaders should keep building while checking the economics before workflows scale.

    9분

  7. 5월 9일

    The AI Bill Needs an Owner

    AI adoption is moving from experimentation to operations. This week, I look at why the "AI bill" needs an owner, not just because of tokens and software spend, but because AI work touches workflows, data quality, reviews, exceptions, trust, and accountability. The cloud era gave us CloudOps and FinOps once spend and ownership became too messy to ignore. AI may be heading in the same direction. The emerging work looks less like one big AI team and more like a set of operating roles: AI workflow owners, agent coordinators, AI cost analysts, quality leads, and context and data stewards. I also cover signals from Microsoft Agent 365, Cisco's agentic AI research, AWS agent payments, Anthropic finance agents, and the strange but telling rise of wave-powered floating data centers. Plus, a quick After Hours note on 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.

    11분

  8. 5월 2일

    The AI Replacement Math Got Less Clean

    This week’s episode looks at why the AI replacement math is getting more complicated. AI tools are starting to feel less like chatbots and more like junior analysts, but the economics are not as simple as “AI is cheaper than people.” Compute capacity, token costs, model availability, and human review time all matter. I also cover OpenAI and Anthropic’s massive compute commitments, GitHub’s move toward usage-based Copilot pricing, Google Cloud’s agent control plane, and why AI adoption may start to look a lot like cloud adoption: useful, fast-growing, and eventually a CFO problem. Plus: a quick After Hours detour into Six Days of the Condor and Three Days of the Condor.

    7분
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Business operations, automation, and AI don't have to be complicated. Every week, Quanta Bits breaks down what's actually changing for mid-market companies: what's working, what's hype, and what operational leaders should pay attention to. Hosted by Reza Morakabati, founder of Quanta Management and MIT Sloan alum.  The companion to the Quanta Bits newsletter.

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