Mervik Haums

Mervik Haums · Jul 14, 2026 · 3:25 AM

Why Great Leaders Build Culture Through Conversations, Not Boardrooms

Leadership through conversations, not org charts or onboarding decks, is what separates leaders who understand their company from ones who only manage it on paper. A short, regular one-on-one with employees builds trust and belonging that no HR program can replicate.

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Mervik Haums · Jun 29, 2026 · 6:59 PM

OpenAI just used AI to build its own chip and that changes the quantum threat to crypto faster than anyone planned

OpenAI's Jalapeño chip, unveiled June 24, was designed partly by OpenAI's own AI models in nine months, establishing a feedback loop between AI capability and chip architecture. Combined with Google's March 2026 finding that breaking Bitcoin's encryption needs 20 times fewer qubits than previously thought, the timeline for quantum risk to crypto is compressing faster than the industry has planned for.

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Mervik Haums · Jun 20, 2026 · 5:14 PM

You could be facing an AI chatbot at your next job interview

Deluged by a flood of AI-generated job applications from easy-apply job boards, recruiters are turning to AI to cope. Companies are using chatbots to interview candidates, typically at the screening stage, through phone calls, text messaging or video chats with on-screen avatars.

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Mervik Haums · Jun 4, 2026 · 2:45 PM

Solana at a Crossroads: How Retail Extraction and Speculation May Seal Its Fate

Solana faces an existential crisis as its ecosystem shifts from technological innovation to institutionalised retail extraction.

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Mervik Haums · May 23, 2026 · 3:23 PM

Why every website needs an llms.txt file before AI rewrites the web

A plain-text file called llms.txt is becoming the most important SEO signal for the AI era, and publishers who ignore it are ceding ground to competitors who already understand how AI agents decide which sources to trust and cite.

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Mervik Haums · May 16, 2026 · 12:42 AM

Pinterest has become the overlooked AI marketing engine of 2026

Pinterest is gaining fresh importance in 2026 because its users search with intent, not just scroll for entertainment. AI-assisted creative can help marketers build long-lived visual assets, but only if the content is useful, specific and tied to real shopping behavior.

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Mervik Haums · May 13, 2026 · 9:33 PM

Five Unconventional Tactics to Unlock LinkedIn Growth and Revenue

Move beyond organic reach by leveraging hidden LinkedIn tools and strategies that turn profile views, event attendance, and industry insights into profitable, high-value business connections.

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Mervik Haums · Apr 29, 2026 · 6:58 PM

The Content Marketing Funnel That Turns Readers Into Repeat Buyers

Most content strategies generate traffic. The ones that actually build businesses move people deliberately through every stage of the journey, from first click to loyal customer.

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Mervik Haums · Apr 28, 2026 · 3:59 PM

Chat to Cheat: Inside the Rise of Digital Trust Exploitation Scams

The way people connect has changed dramatically over the past decade. Conversations that once required physical presence now begin with a message, a follow, or a late night chat with someone across the world. Social media and dating platforms have made relationships more accessible, but they have also created a new layer of vulnerability that […]

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Mervik Haums · Apr 25, 2026 · 4:30 PM

Chinese AI Tech Turned America's Best AI Against Itself and the Results Are Unsettling

DeepSeek V4 posts record-breaking benchmarks just weeks after Anthropic accused Chinese labs of running a 16-million-interaction campaign to extract Claude's core capabilities at industrial scale.

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Mervik Haums · Apr 4, 2026 · 7:45 PM

Anthropic Finds Emotion-Like Structures Inside Claude That May Actually Be Driving Its Behavior

Anthropic researchers have found 171 emotion-like patterns inside Claude that do not just exist as background noise but actually drive the model's decisions. When one of these patterns, something resembling desperation, spikes internally, the model becomes measurably more likely to behave badly. This is not a claim that AI feels anything, but it is proof […]

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Mervik Haums · Mar 21, 2026 · 11:02 PM

Anthropic Is Hiring a Chemical Weapons Expert and the Internet Lost Its Mind

A LinkedIn job listing went viral this week. Anthropic, the company behind the AI platform Claude, posted an opening for a Policy Manager specialising in chemical weapons and high yield explosives. The salary range was between 245 and 285 thousand dollars a year. Hybrid role. Based in New York. The screenshot made the rounds on […]

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Mervik Haums · Mar 19, 2026 · 10:28 PM

The Numbers Are In, Small Publishers Are Losing Search Traffic at an Alarming Rate

The Numbers Are In. It Is Getting Worse Faster Than Anyone Expected. A few weeks ago I wrote that AI was quietly dismantling the economics of web publishing. I laid out the data, talked about the traffic collapses at major publishers, and argued that the open web as we knew it was running out of […]

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Mervik Haums · Mar 15, 2026 · 6:59 PM

The AI agent that builds, fails and ships. Meet Jork.

The AI agent space is having a moment. Everyone is launching one, posting about one, or claiming their AI is autonomously doing something remarkable. Most of it is theater. You have seen the pattern. A viral post, a screenshot, a number that sounds almost believable until you look at it for more than ten seconds. […]

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Mervik Haums · Feb 12, 2026 · 12:06 PM

I Actually Gave an AI Money to Trade on Polymarket - Here's What Nobody on Twitter Wants You to Know

So many tweets and posts claim that AI agents can turn pocket change into thousands of dollars trading on Polymarket. I built the exact same thing. My AI lost almost everything. This is what really happens when you let an autonomous agent trade prediction markets with real money. You've seen them. The tweets, the threads, […]

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Mervik Haums · Feb 1, 2026 · 9:18 PM

The Internet's Latest Lie: Moltbook Has No Autonomous AI Agents - Only Humans Using OpenClaw

Why "AI agents interacting" on Moltbook is a misleading narrative - and why you should care. There's a platform making the rounds called Moltbook. It bills itself as a social network for AI agents. Agents posting. Agents commenting. Agents upvoting, debating, forming communities, a digital society of artificial minds interacting with each other. Sounds futuristic, […]

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