Thoughts
On tech, AI, business, and what actually works.
July 6, 2026
Jensen Huang tells customers that even if rivals gave their chips away, NVIDIA would still be the cheaper choice. Independent benchmarks, MLPerf audits, and the purchasing behavior of the smartest compute buyers say he's mostly right — with one instructive exception.
July 5, 2026
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 didn't ship one model — it shipped three (Sol, Terra, Luna) priced in a clean 2x ladder. The real story isn't the 91.9% benchmark crown; it's that 'which model' is now a budget decision. A clear-eyed read of the tiers, the honest benchmark picture (Terra actually scores below GPT-5.5), and which tier a business should actually buy.
July 1, 2026
Born in Leeds and eligible for England, Erling Haaland chose Norway. The real reason runs through his father's battered Premier League career, the infamous Roy Keane tackle, and a quiet homecoming to a small Norwegian farming town.
June 28, 2026
AI agents save real hours, yet only 41% of rollouts hit positive ROI within a year and 19% never pay back. The 2026 data on why most agent deployments stall — and the four moves that separate the winners. The dividing line isn't the model; it's measurement.
June 27, 2026
How Google turned itself from a search company into an agentic-AI company across two keynotes — I/O 2025 and I/O 2026 — and what its agents, open protocols, and quadrillion-token scale mean for business decision-makers planning their own AI bets.
June 26, 2026
In late June 2026 the most capable AI models stopped being something you could simply buy. OpenAI began releasing GPT-5.6 only to a government-vetted list of partners, days after Washington suspended foreign access to Anthropic's top models. It isn't a kill switch — it's a permission layer, and it changes who controls the frontier.
June 26, 2026
At Göbekli Tepe and the cluster of "Stone Hills" sites in southeastern Turkey, hunter-gatherers raised the world's oldest monuments some 11,500 years ago — before farming, pottery, or the wheel. The discoveries overturned a century-old assumption that agriculture had to come first, and suggest civilization may have begun not with the plow, but with the temple.
June 26, 2026
How a failed phone call, five months of CIA spycraft, and two hours over Caracas ended Nicolas Maduro's presidency on Jan 3, 2026 - and why the cleanest operation in a generation left the messiest questions, from an unpublished death toll to a near-unanimous verdict that it broke international law.
June 24, 2026
SpaceX's $60 billion all-stock purchase of Cursor isn't a coding-tools story — it's Elon Musk buying the surface where software gets written, turning millions of developers' keystrokes into training fuel for his AI, and opening a second front against GitHub with a platform called Origin. What the largest startup acquisition in history means for the tools your business runs on.