The AI blind spot that nobody in the room will name. AI vendor pitches start with the model. The model is real and not the differentiator. Three numbers tell the rest of the story: 367, 6 versus 1, and 95. ai-strategy ai-and-work ai-markets Every Artificial Intelligence (AI) vendor pitch a chief information officer has heard …
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AI Hype vs Reality: Four Tells in Every Announcement. AI optimism in 2026 has a grammar. Forecasts read as facts. Product lists pass for forecasts. Four tells let you read any announcement honestly. reading-ai-news ai-markets ai-policy Artificial Intelligence (AI) optimism in 2026 has a grammar. Forecasts arrive dressed as descriptions. Product lists arrive dressed as …
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AI Safety Is Not What They Say. It Is What They Gave Up.. Powerful companies all say the right things about AI safety. The reliable test is action that costs them money, market position, or political standing. ai-safety ai-governance ai-policy Powerful companies always say the right things. That fact is older than any of the …
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How AI Chips Work: The Pause Is Where the Work Lives. A chip is not a swarm. A hundred billion transistors pause together a billion times a second. The pause is the work. The slowest part sets the pace. ai-hardware ai-economics ai-and-work A modern chip has about a hundred billion transistors, all running at the …
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Code Is No Longer a Moat. The New AI Moats Are Elsewhere.. For thirty years you could not throw money at a software lead. AI broke that rule. The new moats are supply chain, channel, data, and integration. ai-strategy ai-markets ai-economics Artificial Intelligence (AI) just broke a rule that held software in place for thirty …
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AI Productivity: Five Percent of Your Job, Leveraged 20x. When AI does ninety-five percent of the task, the five percent that is yours gets levered twenty times. Three categories of work hold their value. ai-careers ai-and-work ai-economics The default question in 2026 is whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) takes your job. The question is wrong. The …
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AI Chip Performance: Why Blackwell Delivers 50x, Not 2x. AI hardware delivers 50x more tokens per watt while spec sheets show 2x. The 25x gap lives in extreme co-design across seven layers, not in any single chip. ai-hardware ai-markets ai-economics If you have followed Artificial Intelligence (AI) hardware announcements and wondered why the generational gaps …
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AI Agent Governance: Treat the Agent Like an Employee. An AI agent without identity, role, access, audit, performance, and a manager is not autonomous. It is unsupervised. The fix is six primitives and a kill switch. ai-governance ai-and-work ai-strategy An enterprise would never let a human employee through the door without an identification badge, an …
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The Work AI Cannot Replace: My Mother and Higher-Value Care. AI abundance forecasts assume labor scales. Care work does not. A daughter’s hours are the hours the forecast does not see. The wall is closer than they say. caregiving aging-and-care ai-economics ai-careers Artificial Intelligence (AI) abundance forecasts share a sentence. The sentence promises automation will …
Venture Capital and AI: Sized for Fifteen Winners a Year. Old venture capital was a basketball team sized for fifteen winners a year. The redesign that scaled: share economics, centralize control, and grow sideways. ai-markets ai-strategy ai-economics For thirty years, every venture firm in the country was sized for the same number. About fifteen technology …
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