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
AI Agent
Five Fixes Siri AI Needs Before It Can Run Your Life
The phone has the context. Siri needs the nerve to use it.
The Invisible Butler
Answers are free. Finished chores are worth paying for.
The Envelope and the Backlog
An argument for dancing animals and taking your time.
Three Businesses You Could Build on a Private AI Assistant
Plus the one rule that keeps all three out of trouble.
How to Build an AI Ticket Spotter That Actually Gets You Good Seats (Without Getting Banned)
Four quiet moves to help your family score concert and game-day tickets at face value using local models or Meta Muse.
Build Your Own Sovereign AI Assistant for Life
A hobbyist’s build guide: a private, always-on, voice-first agent on one Linux box, reached from your phone like any other app
Build Your Own Assistant, and Keep It
A weekend project: a private AI that knows your files, joins your meetings, and answers to nobody but you
The Assistant That Stays Home
What a private AI assistant on your own laptop can actually do today
Ad Hoc, Incorporated
Charles Stross opens Accelerando with a man crossing a plaza in front of Amsterdam’s Centraal Station, sunlight coming off the canal, his eyeballs powered up. Manfred Macx is a “venture altruist.” He…