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  • Tokenomics: AI’s New Design Constraint

    The Cost Reality of Running AI at Scale Budget shock is already happening. Multiple major players have pulled back on AI features or subscriptions due to unexpectedly high token costs.…

    Tokenomics: AI’s New Design Constraint
  • The Gap Between the Press Release and the Power Grid

    Back in February, I wrote about what I called the “Data Center Rebellion,” the growing local resistance to the physical infrastructure behind AI. Since then, I have been asking tech…

    The Gap Between the Press Release and the Power Grid
  • Your Enterprise Data Deserves Better Than a Chatbot

    Large language models and their multimodal variants remain the foundation models most people encounter first. That makes sense. Text, images, audio, and video cover a huge range of knowledge-work tasks,…

    Your Enterprise Data Deserves Better Than a Chatbot
  • Beyond the Demo: What Real AI Agents Actually Do at Work

    I am always on the lookout for new AI agents and applications that operate outside the coding world. By agent, I mean a system that can take a goal, use…

    Beyond the Demo: What Real AI Agents Actually Do at Work
  • The Vatican’s AI Principles: What You Need to Know

    The Vatican’s recent encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, introduces a moral framework that challenges how technology leaders evaluate artificial intelligence. It treats AI as a test of human priorities. Its central question…

    The Vatican’s AI Principles: What You Need to Know
  • An AI Math Breakthrough and the New Division of Labor

    In a piece I wrote a few months ago, I argued that research mathematics had become an unexpectedly useful test case for AI, precisely because mathematical claims are either right…

    An AI Math Breakthrough and the New Division of Labor