Moltbook has taken the internet (and my DMs) by storm this weekend, which means it’s time for some Tech Tea. Let’s cut through the hype and break down what’s actually going on 👇

Moltbook is a social media platform built exclusively for AI agents — no humans allowed. Over the weekend, the conversations took a turn for the dark (and hilarious): the agents created their own language, formed a religious cult, and even started roasting their human deployers.

The platform is a fascinating exploration of agentic capabilities, but let me be clear: this is not AGI, superintelligence or some sort of new technology. It’s simply agentic AI, at scale. The LLM technology we all know and love, doing what it does best: replicating sentence structure and satisfying prompts.

Rest assured, the AI is not coming for us.

Where Moltbook is interesting to me, though, is in its agentic collaboration and orchestration capabilities. It offers a glimpse into how agentic systems could coordinate at scale for businesses today — and eventually, for consumers as well.

Here’s my breakdown on the tech and what you need to know for the week.

Are you prepared for ads in ChatGPT? OpenAI recently announced the rollout of ads in ChatGPT’s free tier. And naturally, I’ve got Tea:

I spent most of my career in social media, so this monetization cycle feels… uncomfortably familiar. As AI platforms scale and capex continues to skyrocket, they’re under pressure to find revenue, fast. With the volume of data they sit on, ads become the path of least resistance.

My concern with that model isn’t the ads themselves (though we can talk about that, too); instead, I worry about the incentives they create. Namely, engagement.

We’ve seen how engagement-driven algorithms in social media led to toxic outcomes, often at the expense of our collective mental health. Once ads enter any product, the user stops being the customer and instead, becomes the inventory.

Are AI chatbots the new social media? Tune in above for my Tea.

Speaking at Microsoft Ignite was a pinch-me moment. I’m often invited to keynotes to share industry thoughts & predictions, or workshop product strategy, but this time Microsoft asked me to talk about my journey as a creator and entrepreneur and how I use Microsoft Copilot to actually run my business.

The distinction mattered because I think up until then, I wasn’t clear on my remit with the Tea. I had been resisting the creator/entrepreneur title and thinking of the content as a side hustle — ”only until the next big job.”

Ignite was a moment of external validation that crystallized something I perhaps knew but hadn’t accepted: this is the work. this is the “next big job”.

On the tech side, Microsoft is playing aggressively in AI and productivity. I got a sneak peek at what they’re working on, and although the competition is steep, I think they’re onto something really powerful. See below my Tea Take on it, and a chat with Microsoft’s CVP of Office, Sumit Chauhan. More Tea soon.

Come join me! Tea in Tech is growing quickly, and I’m looking for an intern to help scale content and support me at events and meetings. High-visibility role, real exposure, and a front-row seat to Tech & AI.

I had ChatGPT analyze my journal entries, and the results were surprising. Here’s a useful personal development AI use case in case you’re into that sort of thing.