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Artificial intelligence in practice — what it changes, who it concentrates power for, and how it lands in the businesses and policies of the technology economy.
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The number that emerged from a leaked negotiation this month was $320. That is what each American household would receive, in equity, if Sam Altman's proposal to hand the US government a 5% stake in OpenAI were distributed evenly across American families.
Where the internet physically lives is being redrawn, and what's pulling it isn't engineers — it's electricity.
We tend to treat being good at AI as a technical skill, something to do with clever prompts, the right settings and a stock of secret phrases.
I started using AI as an external memory.
Every so often you get to a point where the same three or four questions have been circling for months and none of them are getting answered.
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.
Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are reportedly selling software that introduces itself by name, holds a Slack handle, and shows up on org charts.
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.
The hyperscalers are quietly dismantling the architecture of their own dependency.
TSMC manufactures an estimated 90%-plus of the world's most advanced chips on a single island 130 kilometres from China. There is no second source for the silicon powering the AI age.
