Thoughts
On tech, AI, business, and what actually works.
June 20, 2026
In one week of June 2026, Anthropic quietly throttled its record-breaking Claude Fable 5 for AI researchers, then the U.S. Commerce Department forced Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline worldwide via an export-control letter. The episode proved a frontier AI model is a strategic asset that can be pulled away overnight — by its maker or by the state.
June 20, 2026
Vercel deleted roughly 80% of its internal AI agent's tools and it got faster, cheaper, and more accurate. The counterintuitive result explains why most business AI fails — and hands small and medium businesses a concrete playbook for landing in the 5% that actually works.
June 19, 2026
Small businesses now adopt AI faster than big firms — yet roughly 95% of AI projects move no profit at all. Here's what the AI-native small business actually looks like by 2030, and the six-step roadmap that turns cheap intelligence into software-grade margins.
June 2, 2026
Forget the autonomous "digital employee." The small businesses actually winning with AI in 2026 each did one humbler thing — handed a single tedious chore to a machine, kept a human watching it, and got their afternoons back. Ten real cases, and the wall at the end of the runway.
May 29, 2026
Anthropic built the most powerful AI model ever benchmarked, then deemed it too dangerous to release. After 10,000 discovered vulnerabilities, a Discord breach, and a CEO warning of a “moment of danger,” Mythos-class models are about to reach everyone.
May 29, 2026
AI agents pay off when you point them at a narrow back-office chore — inbox triage, scheduling, invoicing, lead follow-up — and fail when you ask them to autonomously run your business. A practical, skeptic-friendly guide for SMB operators.
May 28, 2026
The honest answer to what you get per dollar of AI spend is two numbers, not one: $3.70 for the leaders, 5.9% for the average. Which one becomes yours has almost nothing to do with the model and everything to do with preparation.