Tag: book
Annual list of recommended books.
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I changed my mind about world models
What If AI Builds the Robot Instead of Controlling It? Last year I wrote about robotics moving from bespoke machines toward reusable foundation models, essentially an attempt to build a general-purpose robot brain. More recently, I…
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China’s Export Strength Is Only Half the Story
Most media coverage of China focuses on its export and manufacturing prowess. Yet when I talk with visitors and friends just back from the country, what they most want to discuss is the bleak job market,…
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Why do our AI models stop learning the second we deploy them?
Continual Learning Is Arriving in Pieces A while back I wrote about how startups are using reinforcement learning to make agents more reliable. A deeper problem behind that whole trend keeps resurfacing: a model can improve…
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12 GW announced. 5 GW under construction. What happens next?
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…
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Your AI agent looks capable. But can it actually finish the job?
Why Your AI Agents Fail in Production (And How to Actually Test Them) In a previous post, I argued that deploying autonomous AI agents reliably is not primarily a model problem. It is an environment problem.…
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Why the heaviest AI users actually produce worse results 🤯
How to Stay Employable When AI Is Coming for Your Job Over the past few weeks, I have had a lot of conversations with people who are genuinely worried about what AI means for their careers.…
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The margin paradox threatening every AI company
The AI Bubble Is Real. Enterprise Usage Is Even More Telling. The existence of an AI bubble is beyond dispute. What remains unclear is when or how it deflates. As investors know all too well, the…
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Your AI passed benchmarks. Why is it failing in production?
AI Reliability Patterns That Generalize Beyond Medicine The gap between pilot projects and production deployments has emerged as a defining challenge for enterprise AI teams. Recent surveys indicate that only a small percentage of generative AI…
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The Year in Print: 12 Books That Defined 2025
To mark the season, here are twelve non-fiction selections for the twelve days of Christmas. These are books we enjoyed and found worth passing along, ranging from deep dives into semiconductor history to fresh looks at…
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How to build an AI business that survives the bubble
Boom, Bubble, or Bust? How to Build a Resilient AI Business Comparisons to the dot-com bust are common but this AI boom rests on short-cycle hardware. Frontier training chases each GPU generation, rendering last year’s chips…
