Technology, AI, capital and institutions, examined through who builds systems, who controls them and who benefits.
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If you own a dog, there is a reasonable chance its retractable lead was made by a company called Flexi, based in a town in northern Germany, which by its own account and most industry estimates holds around 70 percent of the world market for exactly that product and does nothing else.
Uber spent its entire 2026 budget for AI coding tools in four months.
The assumption almost everyone carries about a new tool: it pours rocket fuel on whoever is already at the front.
I started taking protein powder a few weeks ago, after roughly a decade of treating it the way some people treat cults: intriguing from a distance, definitely not for me.
Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are reportedly selling software that introduces itself by name, holds a Slack handle, and shows up on org charts.
Chamath Palihapitiya is returning to a full-time operating role for the first time since leaving Facebook, taking the CEO seat at 8090 Labs after the AI coding startup closed a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, according to TechCrunch.
Radar-related interrupts contributed to overload. The software recovery was a team achievement, and NASA engineer Jack Garman helped Steve Bales assess the alarms.
Ford has rehired roughly 350 veteran engineers after automated quality systems and AI-driven inspection tools failed to deliver expected manufacturing standards.
"You come across as highly self-directed, analytical, private, and restless.
On 29 June 2026, Russian President Vladimir Putin told state media that Ukraine had quietly floated a proposal that would, if accepted, reshape one of the most destructive dimensions of the war: a mutual halt to long-range strikes deep inside each country's territory.
Booking.com runs more than 1,000 concurrent experiments on its production booking flow through an in-house framework its Amsterdam engineers built in the late 2000s — a foundational piece of software that has been extended continuously but never rewritten. The case reveals how the most powerful systems in modern e-commerce are often the oldest.
NVIDIA's $5 trillion valuation on 29 October 2025 was not a measurement of what the company produced.
