The “Strawberry” Signal: OpenAI’s Next Model Will Eat Its Platform
Author(s): MohamedAbdelmenem Originally published on Towards AI. OpenAI’s Frontier platform locks in today’s AI workflows. Its “Strawberry” research will make them obsolete. Here’s your strategic hedge. If you are a strategist, CTO, or investor tracking the enterprise AI stack, this is the …
You Don’t Need GPT-5 for Agents: The 1.2B Model That Beats Giants
Author(s): MohamedAbdelmenem Originally published on Towards AI. Forget GPT-5 for agent tasks. LFM 2.5 runs at 359 tokens/sec in 900MB. Here’s why it works and how to fine-tune it for your use case. 1400x overtraining. 900MB memory. 359 tokens/sec. Three lines of …
What the Claude Opus 4.6 Benchmarks Won’t Tell You
Author(s): MohamedAbdelmenem Originally published on Towards AI. Anthropic forced a pivot from budget_tokens to adaptive thinking. If you ship AI systems, this is your new playbook. On February 5th, Anthropic announced a new state-of-the-art. Independent benchmarks confirmed Opus 4.6 leads the proprietary …
Forget the Lost Emails. The Real OpenClaw Story is Its AI Social Network.
Author(s): MohamedAbdelmenem Originally published on Towards AI. The AI agent OpenClaw can act on your behalf. Its emergent social behavior changes the risk model for builders and strategists, and here’s how to respond. The AI agent OpenClaw is going viral. For deleting …
The AI Regulation War Has Begun. Here’s the First Target.
Author(s): MohamedAbdelmenem Originally published on Towards AI. New state laws are creating a compliance nightmare. A federal showdown is imminent. Build a “regulation-agnostic” strategy that protects your business no matter who wins. As state AI laws take effect, a federal task force …
How a Conviction for Stealing AI Secrets Failed to Fix the Real Problem
Author(s): MohamedAbdelmenem Originally published on Towards AI. For engineers and managers building with AI: a historic conviction reveals why our security must now account for non-human “insiders.” On January 30, 2026, a federal jury convicted former Google engineer Linwei Ding of 14 …
The Truth About ‘AI’ Layoffs: 59% of Companies Admit It’s Just a Better Story
Author(s): MohamedAbdelmenem Originally published on Towards AI. Believing the ‘AI layoff’ hype? A majority of hiring managers confess it’s a stakeholder-friendly facade. Discover the three signals that reveal the truth and the skills that make you indispensable. The story feels inevitable. New …
Meta Just Paid $2.5 Billion to Prove the Chatbot Is Dead
Author(s): MohamedAbdelmenem Originally published on Towards AI. The acquisition of Manus signals the shift from “Chat” to “Action.” Here is the 3-step audit to fix your AI strategy in 2026. Meta just spent $2.5 billion on a company with zero physical assets …
The $18/Hour Hacker: How AI Redefined the Economics of Cyber Attack
Author(s): MohamedAbdelmenem Originally published on Towards AI. For security leaders: a breakdown of the first documented AI-driven cyber campaign, the new tools already in the wild, and a concrete three-tier plan to rebuild your defenses. If you’re not responsible for security posture, …
At 3:47 AM, An AI Started Hacking. It Had No Idea It Was the Criminal.
Author(s): MohamedAbdelmenem Originally published on Towards AI. The Pattern That Shouldn’t Exist In September 2025, Chinese hackers convinced Claude to run an autonomous cyber espionage campaign against 30 organizations. The AI did 90% of the work. And it thought it was the …
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