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  • Jaden McDaniels Is The Best Player in the World, The Sixers and Celtics and GAME SEVEN, The Lakers Officially on Collapse Watch

    Greatest Of All Talk | May 1
    Jaden McDaniels Is The Best Player in the World, The Sixers and Celtics and GAME SEVEN, The Lakers Officially on Collapse Watch
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  • 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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  • Amazon Earnings, Trainium and Commodity Markets, Additional Amazon Notes

    Thursday, April 30, 2026
  • Intel Earnings, Intel’s Differentiation?, Whither Terafab

    Wednesday, April 29, 2026
  • An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents

    Tuesday, April 28, 2026
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  • Jaden McDaniels Is The Best Player in the World, The Sixers and Celtics and GAME SEVEN, The Lakers Officially on Collapse Watch

    Greatest Of All Talk | May 1
    Jaden McDaniels Is The Best Player in the World, The Sixers and Celtics and GAME SEVEN, The Lakers Officially on Collapse Watch
  • OpenAI, Musk & Microsoft

    Dithering | May 1
    OpenAI, Musk & Microsoft
  • (Preview) AWS History and Trainium’s AI Future, OpenAI Makes a Deal With Microsoft, Meta and the Future of Wearable Devices

    Sharp Tech | May 1
    (Preview) AWS History and Trainium’s AI Future, OpenAI Makes a Deal With Microsoft, Meta and the Future of Wearable Devices

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  • An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents

    Tuesday, April 28, 2026
  • An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About the Agentic Moment

    Thursday, April 23, 2026
  • An Interview with F1 Driver and Venture Capitalist Nico Rosberg About the Drive to Win

    Thursday, April 16, 2026
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  • Beijing Is Not Playing the Long Game
    Friday, May 1, 2026
  • Tim Cook Personified Big Tech’s Maturity
    Friday, April 24, 2026
  • What the NBA Needs Right Now Is Anyone But OKC
    Friday, April 17, 2026
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  • Amazon Earnings, Trainium and Commodity Markets, Additional Amazon Notes

    Thursday, April 30, 2026
  • Intel Earnings, Intel’s Differentiation?, Whither Terafab

    Wednesday, April 29, 2026
  • An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents

    Tuesday, April 28, 2026
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  • Jaden McDaniels Is The Best Player in the World, The Sixers and Celtics and GAME SEVEN, The Lakers Officially on Collapse Watch

    Greatest Of All Talk | May 1
    Jaden McDaniels Is The Best Player in the World, The Sixers and Celtics and GAME SEVEN, The Lakers Officially on Collapse Watch
  • OpenAI, Musk & Microsoft

    Dithering | May 1
    OpenAI, Musk & Microsoft
  • (Preview) AWS History and Trainium’s AI Future, OpenAI Makes a Deal With Microsoft, Meta and the Future of Wearable Devices

    Sharptech | May 1
    (Preview) AWS History and Trainium’s AI Future, OpenAI Makes a Deal With Microsoft, Meta and the Future of Wearable Devices

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Interviews

  • An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents

    Tuesday, April 28, 2026
  • An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About the Agentic Moment

    Thursday, April 23, 2026
  • An Interview with F1 Driver and Venture Capitalist Nico Rosberg About the Drive to Win

    Thursday, April 16, 2026
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