The Sovereign Compute Alliance: How Apple and Meta Are Poised to Cannibalize Cloud AI
From a $10 billion ad feud to the desktop: why open weights, unified memory, and Apple silicon threaten the per-token business of cloud AI
Old Iron, New Code
Retrofit Autonomy and the Family Farm’s Third Path
Five Fixes Siri AI Needs Before It Can Run Your Life
The phone has the context. Siri needs the nerve to use it.
The Unburdened Stride
Solvitur ambulando at zero hertz: the case for walking with nothing in your ears and nothing to accomplish.
The Adobe SaaS Exodus
How AI-Driven Clean-Room Engineering Is Cracking the Subscription Moat
The Invisible Butler
Answers are free. Finished chores are worth paying for.
What it Really Means to Win the AI Race
On the morning of July 17, 2026, Xi Jinping took the stage in Shanghai for his first in-person address to China’s World AI Conference, and he began his keynote by crediting the United States. Seventy…
Liable for Your Own Actions
The Accountability Gap in Alex Karp’s AI Nationalization Pitch
The Automation of Certainty
How Stale Priors and Epistemic Arrogance Cascade from Synthetic Text to Kinetic Warfare
The Envelope and the Backlog
An argument for dancing animals and taking your time.