You don't need more AI news. You need a filter.

Most of the AI news that floods your feed are small breakthroughs in areas that will never change your P&L.
Train yourself to avoid AI conversations that won't change your business model.

The Filter

The filter consists of three tripwires that should instantly cause you to pay attention to an announcement, and a few questions about your business.

Most AI headlines won't pass this filter.

Of course, if you just enjoy watching videos of Sam Altman speaking Chinese and stealing GPUs from Target, be my guest.

Tripwire 1: Will this improve the quality of judgments my people or systems make?

Example:
The jump from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4—fewer dumb answers, stronger reasoning.

Tripwire 2: Does this let us process significantly more data in a single pass?

Example:
Gemini introducing an expanded context model that lets you process an entire book in a single query.

Tripwire 3: Does this reduce hallucinations and create self-correction under constraints?

Examples:

• Emergence of chain-of-thought reasoning methods that reduce shallow responses and improve planning

• Claude Code creating a process of checklists and the ability to "run without extra input" on a complex task

Other questions that should fire in your brain

• What becomes newly possible for my business model next quarter? (Be concrete.)

• Which KPI would move we were to adopt this? (Cycle time, error rate, win rate, cost per ticket.)

When You Get This Right

You can skim a newsletter or hear a friend's excited update and instantly know whether to lean in or let it go.
Most items get a clean "ignore" without FOMO.
When a tripwire fires, your team has a short playbook: who investigates, what to test, what KPI to target.