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      <title>thesmallmediacompany joins claude startups, anthropic's programme for founders building with claude</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alessandro Facchini</dc:creator>
      <description>thesmallmediacompany has joined claude startups, anthropic's programme for founders building with claude: api credits, offers from companies building with claude, and sessions with the applied ai team. for a one-person company, it's fuel for what we already build.</description>
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      <title>orepiccole: thesmallmediacompany launches a series of essay films for the questions of the night, in six languages</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alessandro Facchini</dc:creator>
      <description>thesmallmediacompany launches orepiccole, a series of six-to-seven-minute essay films on the questions that arrive at night: six youtube channels, one per language, in the founder's voice recreated with artificial intelligence. the trailer is online in five languages (portuguese coming soon), and the first film, «why are we afraid of being happy? the ring of polycrates», has been online since sunday, october 11.</description>
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      <title>from artificial to super: why thesmallmediacompany now says super intelligence</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alessandro Facchini</dc:creator>
      <description>from october 2026 thesmallmediacompany calls super intelligence (SI) what most people still call artificial intelligence. new pages, stories and products use SI; pages written before stay as they are; and wherever european law asks us to say that you are talking to an artificial intelligence, we use the law's words.</description>
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      <title>talking with an author’s thinking: thesmallmediacompany launches its first relational voice companion</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alessandro Facchini</dc:creator>
      <description>thesmallmediacompany has launched talk to the creator, its first relational voice companion: free, no account, carrying the founder’s own thinking in his cloned voice, and closing every conversation after fifteen minutes. the audio is never recorded.</description>
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