68 minutes vs. 316 minutes. In an independent, hands-on evaluation, @Signal_65 found Snowflake CoCo completed a seven-phase enterprise workflow in 68 minutes, compared to 316 minutes via manual workflow. That’s 4.6x faster. See the full evaluation:

68-year-old Xuan Fengying caring for her daughter-in-law, Xu Cuihua, in Qingyun County, Shandong Province, China... One month after her wedding in 2009, Xu Cuihua was struck by a truck in China’s Shandong province. She survived, but a severe brain injury left her in a vegetative state. Her mother-in-law, Xuan Fengying, became her primary caregiver. Seventeen years later, she is still looking after her. Xuan fed Xu liquid food one spoonful at a time. A meal could take an hour. She turned her more than ten times a day to prevent bedsores, washed her, massaged her muscles and spoke to her about family news. She played songs Xu loved and kept calling her name. And where was Xu’s husband? Local reporting says he was working while his mother handled the daily care. It does not establish how much he helped after work, or whether he shared the feeding, bathing and rehabilitation. What the published accounts consistently describe is Xuan doing those tasks. Years passed before Xu began showing signs of awareness. The damage to her brain remained severe, but Xuan helped her practice walking and relearn everyday activities. Today Xu can speak short phrases, walk and prepare simple meals. Xuan is now 68, with high blood pressure and chronic leg pain. Once, when Xu fell, she needed a neighbor’s help to lift her. She admits envying other older people who have time to dance in the public square. Asked why she stayed, Xuan said Xu had married her son and therefore become her child. She could not abandon her. But Xuan’s greatest concern is what happens after she dies. She has specifically told her son that he must continue caring for his wife. That instruction raises a question the reporting does not answer: how much responsibility does he already shoulder? For Xuan, Xu’s ability to make a simple meal is a source of enormous relief. After 17 years of feeding her daughter-in-law, she wants to know Xu will still have something to eat when she is no longer there.

68 YEARS AGO TODAY, NASA OPENED ITS DOORS The agency began operations on October 1, 1958, two months after President Eisenhower signed the act creating it in response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik. It started with about 8,000 employees taken over from its predecessor, NACA, along with three research labs. Today NASA has a budget of about $24.4 billion, and private companies like SpaceX now fly many of the missions it used to run itself.

68% of leaders worry their AI efforts will fail because they aren’t embedded in their organization's workflows. In Ep. 6 of The Orchestrators with @IBM, Salima Lin of @IBMConsulting explains why companies must rethink roles, reskill people, and redesign how humans and AI work together, or risk being stuck in endless pilots. Watch:

68% of tech layoffs over the past six months were attributed to AI. That's 50.9k roles. We tag every tech layoff on by the mechanism the company actually stated. The split is telling: 56% of AI-attributed cuts were "AI now does the work", 28% were "freeing money to fund AI", and only 1% were "customers moved to AI". 14% named no mechanism at all. The nuance: the total is down 17% versus the prior six months. The wave that peaked in spring 2026 (Cloudflare ~1,100, Atlassian 1,600, Block cutting roughly half its staff) has cooled into a steady drip of 10-20% cuts at mid-size SaaS: 630, Rapid7 313, Sprout Social 260, Patreon 93. Latest in the feed: Zscaler, 3% of workforce, Sep 3. Our read: "AI did the work" is still mostly a framing for cost cuts. The bucket to watch is "AI took the demand". If it ever grows past 1%, that's the one that matters for software multiples. We track this daily in the AI Tech Layoffs play on FUNDA. All paid FundaAI subscribers currently receive complimentary access to this play at We plan to move this feature to a higher subscription tier in the future; for now, it’s included with your paid Substack subscription - subscribe now to lock this great perk.