OpenAI
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OpenAI is making a play to be the Windows of AI: the all-encompassing platform that controls both hardware supplier and software developers.
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OpenAI’s developer keynote was exciting, both because AI was exciting, and because OpenAI has the potential to be a meaningful consumer tech company.
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ChatGPT 5, Product Trade-Offs, Personality and Model Upgrades
GPT-5 seems fine; the more interesting questions are about the ChatGPT product and OpenAI’s tradeoffs.
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Google and Windsurf, Stinky Deals, Chesterton’s Fence and the Silicon Valley Ecosystem
Windsurf’s founders and IP are going to Google in the latest stinky deal that is downstream of regulator’s recklessly messing the startup ecosystem.
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An Interview with “Apple in China” Author Patrick McGee
An Interview with “Apple in China” Author Patrick McGee about Apple’s reluctant shift to outsourcing and how its position relative to its supply chain has shifted over time.
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Vibe Coding, Windsurf and Anthropic, ChatGPT Connectors
AI coding is much broader than vibe coding, the dynamics of AI coding, and why OpenAI wants to own everything.

