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AI Strategic Pulse 7/12/26
Four frontier models in one week: trust is the product
14 mins ago
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Wendy W. Ding
June 2026
The Validation Loop: When AI Emotional Support Becomes Dependency by Design
Americans are leaning on AI for comfort, even as most stay skeptical of it. The design choices behind that comfort are not neutral.
Jun 29
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Wendy W. Ding
AI Strategic Pulse 6/28/26
When AI becomes the threat model
Jun 29
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Wendy W. Ding
We Can See $7.7 Billion of It. The Real Number May Be $81 Billion.
Elder fraud is now a coordinated industry. Our defenses still ask victims to find the right door while the money moves in minutes.
Jun 21
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Wendy W. Ding
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AI Strategic Pulse 6/20/26
When the agentic boom became infrastructure
Jun 21
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Wendy W. Ding
AI Strategic Pulse 6/13/26
Who Controls the AI You Depend On?
Jun 15
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Wendy W. Ding
The Claude Fable 5 Verification Gap
Transparency was the first trust problem. The controversy revealed a verification gap.
Jun 14
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Wendy W. Ding
AI Strategic Pulse, 6/7/26
The week the agentic trust gap became a number
Jun 8
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Wendy W. Ding
AI Strategic Pulse, 5/30/26.
AI just flagged 23,019 vulnerabilities in the world's most-used open-source software.
Jun 7
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Wendy W. Ding
AI Strategic Pulse 5/23/26
When an AI acts on your behalf, whose interests is it actually serving?
Jun 7
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Wendy W. Ding
The Sycophancy Tax: When AI Validation Enters Personal Finance
How agreeable AI can affect financial judgment, and what product teams can do about it.
Jun 5
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Wendy W. Ding
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The 6% Problem: Why Agentic AI Adoption Stalls at Trust, Not Capability
Gartner predicts 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027. The failure driver is not the model. It is the missing trust architecture.
Jun 3
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Wendy W. Ding
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