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  • Open Letters and Weights

    Dithering | Jul 28
    Open Letters and Weights
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  • Muse Image, Grok 4.5, Alex Karp on CNBC

    Thursday, July 9, 2026

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    The battle for verifiable data is increasingly defining the AI race, from Meta to Grok to the frontier labs.


  • The SpaceX IPO and Data Centers in Space

    Wednesday, May 27, 2026

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    There isn’t a financial model that justifies the SpaceX IPO, but data centers in space are plausible, and that might be enough.


  • SpaceX and Anthropic, xAI’s Two Companies, Elon Musk and SpaceXAI’s Future

    Tuesday, May 12, 2026

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    The Anthropic xAI deal is shocking but not surprising: Musk should double down on serving other companies.


  • John Ternus and Apple’s Hardware-Defined Future, SpaceXAI and Cursor

    Wednesday, April 22, 2026

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    The elevation of John Ternus suggests that Apple’s future is about hardware differentiation; then, the SpaceX-Cursor deal makes a lot of sense.


  • An Interview with Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros and Ajey Pandey About Building Power for AI

    Thursday, January 8, 2026

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    An Interview with Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros and Ajey Pandey about how AI labs and hyperscalers are leveraging demand to build out entirely new electrical infrastructure for AI.


  • Apple Earnings; Cook’s AI Comments; Apple’s AI Strategy, Redux

    Tuesday, August 5, 2025

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    Apple appears committed to its original Apple Intelligence strategy.


  • Cognition Buys Windsurf, Nvidia Can Sell to China, Grok 4 and Kimi

    Tuesday, July 15, 2025

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    Cognition rescues Windsurf, Nvidia can sell H20s to China, and Grok 4 and Kimi K2 point to future avenues of model improvement


  • Checking In on AI and the Big Five

    Monday, June 23, 2025

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    A review of the current state of AI through the lens of the Big Five tech companies.


  • xAI Raising Money, xAI and Oracle, Xbox = Windows

    Wednesday, June 18, 2025

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    Everyone wants xAI to exist, but is anyone actually using it? Then, Xbox as it once existed is dead; it’s just Windows now.


  • Grok 3, The Nvidia Shortcut, Competitive Implications

    Tuesday, February 18, 2025

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    Grok 3 appears to be state of the art; that speaks to the power of Nvidia, and actually increases the pressure to spend more.


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  • OpenAI Hacks Hugging Face, What Happened, Alignment and Paper Clips

    Wednesday, July 22, 2026
  • Netflix Earnings, Is Netflix Washed?, Additional Notes

    Tuesday, July 21, 2026
  • IBM Misses, IBM’s Mainframe Moat, IBM’s Many AI Problems

    Wednesday, July 15, 2026
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Podcasts

  • Open Letters and Weights

    Dithering | Jul 28
    Open Letters and Weights
  • Emergency Pod: LeBron to the Sixers??? LeBron to the Sixers.

    Greatest Of All Talk | Jul 24
    Emergency Pod: LeBron to the Sixers??? LeBron to the Sixers.
  • (Preview) An OpenAI Model Escapes Sandboxing, Intelligence Will Be a Commodity Market, The Chinese Model Conundrum

    Sharp Tech | Jul 23
    (Preview) An OpenAI Model Escapes Sandboxing, Intelligence Will Be a Commodity Market, The Chinese Model Conundrum

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Interviews

  • An Interview with Figma CEO Dylan Field About Design and AI

    Thursday, June 25, 2026
  • An Interview with Michael Morton About E-Commerce in the Age of AI

    Thursday, June 18, 2026
  • An Interview with Ben Bajarin About Apple, AI, and Compute

    Thursday, June 11, 2026
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Articles

  • Two More Cents on the NBA’s Second Apron Era
    Friday, July 24, 2026
  • Is Netflix Washed Now?
    Friday, July 17, 2026
  • Online Insanity and Its Counterpoint
    Friday, July 10, 2026
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UpdateS

  • OpenAI Hacks Hugging Face, What Happened, Alignment and Paper Clips

    Wednesday, July 22, 2026
  • Netflix Earnings, Is Netflix Washed?, Additional Notes

    Tuesday, July 21, 2026
  • IBM Misses, IBM’s Mainframe Moat, IBM’s Many AI Problems

    Wednesday, July 15, 2026
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Podcasts

  • Open Letters and Weights

    Dithering | Jul 28
    Open Letters and Weights
  • Emergency Pod: LeBron to the Sixers??? LeBron to the Sixers.

    Greatest Of All Talk | Jul 24
    Emergency Pod: LeBron to the Sixers??? LeBron to the Sixers.
  • (Preview) An OpenAI Model Escapes Sandboxing, Intelligence Will Be a Commodity Market, The Chinese Model Conundrum

    Sharptech | Jul 23
    (Preview) An OpenAI Model Escapes Sandboxing, Intelligence Will Be a Commodity Market, The Chinese Model Conundrum

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Interviews

  • An Interview with Figma CEO Dylan Field About Design and AI

    Thursday, June 25, 2026
  • An Interview with Michael Morton About E-Commerce in the Age of AI

    Thursday, June 18, 2026
  • An Interview with Ben Bajarin About Apple, AI, and Compute

    Thursday, June 11, 2026
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