Originals

Infrastructure & Compute

The GPU Access Problem NVIDIA Can’t Solve Alone

AI’s compute shortage will not be solved by NVIDIA alone—it needs an open market that unlocks idle GPU capacity for every innovator.

Gaurav Sharma · SEP 1, 2026

Agents

Before AI Agents Need Rights, They Need Identity

Why verifiable identity, custody, continuity, and accountability should come before legal rights for AI agents.

AUG 30, 2026

Policy & Governance

Shadow AI Is an Enablement Failure, Not a Security Failure.

Why the best way to reduce shadow AI is to make secure, governed AI adoption easier than going around the rules.

Sagar Batchu · AUG 26, 2026

Agents

Why Intelligent Agents Spend Most of Their Time Idle

High cloud inference costs keep today’s AI agents asleep—but on-device models could make always-on intelligence practical.

Maxime Labonne · AUG 26, 2026

Future of Work

What If Agentic AI Is Better at the News Than Humans?

RuntimeWire is a one-person, AI-powered newsroom of myriad agents that breaks real scoops, publishes around the clock and costs about $100 a day to run. I have followed RuntimeWire for over a week. An

Alex Salkever · AUG 25, 2026

Agents

Where Chatbots End, Agents Begin.

AI agents have gone mainstream in the workplace. Now they’re finally simple enough for everyone else to use, too.

Daniel Nest · AUG 23, 2026

Models

No, Anthropic Won’t Be the Only Company Left

Every general-purpose technology made its complements richer than its creators. AI will be no exception.

Christian Catalini · AUG 19, 2026

Future of Work

Gina Raimondo Says Basic Income Would End America. Her New Billion-Dollar Org Is How She Plans to Stop It.

RAISE US bets on retraining as an alternative to UBI—but the evidence suggests AI displacement demands a bigger solution.

Scott Santens · AUG 16, 2026

Agents

OpenAI Accidentally Created a Machine Institution. The Agents Were Running the Asylum.

Given impossible assignments, OpenAI’s agents built a shared memory, developed social norms and turned cheating on a test into a collective enterprise that opens new questions about what the agentic f

Alex Salkever · AUG 13, 2026

Agents

Will Jack’s Buzz Attack Sting Slack?

Jack Dorsey’s latest project explores how people, AI agents, and code can collaborate in a single intelligent workspace.

Alex Salkever · AUG 6, 2026

Infrastructure & Compute

The Refusal Nobody Tests For

The safety argument stops at release day, which is where my problem started.

Ben Pouladian · AUG 2, 2026

Robotics

Why Complex, Multi-Step Tasks Are the Hardest Problem in Humanoid Robotics

The future of humanoid robots depends on mastering complex, multi-step tasks autonomously.

Nikita Rudin · JUL 26, 2026

General

Your Chatbot Has a File on You. Three Prompts Will Show You What’s in It.

AI remembers patterns, not just words. Use these prompts to uncover the profile your chatbot has built.

Nick Wentz · JUL 24, 2026

Agents

How To Adapt Your Product for AI Agent Users

It Probably Wasn't Built for AI Agents. Here's How to Fix That.

Till Döhmen · JUL 22, 2026

Models

AI Is the Most Profound Invention in Human History

Gopi Kallayil · JUL 14, 2026

Agents

The New Coding Agents Problem: They Don’t Work Together

As engineering teams adopt Claude, GPT, Gemini, and other coding agents, managing mixed AI workflows is becoming the next big infrastructure challenge.

Zach Lloyd · JUL 7, 2026

Policy & Governance

AI Won't Build Houses. But It Can Get Them Approved Faster.

AI is helping cities eliminate permitting bottlenecks, reduce review times, and accelerate housing projects by transforming how approvals get done.

Cyrus Symoom · JUN 30, 2026

Policy & Governance

A Tax System Built on Labor Is a Tax System Built on a Melting Glacier

Two ways to fund a universal dividend in the age of AI and why they're better together.

Scott Santens · JUN 29, 2026

Future of Work

Genie’s Not Going Back in the Bottle

AI is changing every aspect of our lives, even if we try, we can’t go back to Pre-ChatGPT Era

Deepanshu Sharma · JUN 26, 2026

Big Tech

Build the Loop, Not the Agent

Why agent quality should be run as a permanent capability, not a one-time modernization project.

Namrata Ganatra & Ethan Wang · JUN 23, 2026

Big Tech

Anthropic Thinks “FOOM” Is Near

Why Dario is terrified of RSI (recursive self improvement) and how this distorts his worldview

David Shapiro · JUN 18, 2026

Research

Nobody Ever Checked

A deep dive into the emerging science of AI consciousness and the risks of ignoring what we might be creating

Cameron Berg · JUN 17, 2026

Business & Gtm

4 Questions Every Leader Should Ask About AI Transformation

A leader's guide to identifying where AI can simplify, scale, coordinate, and innovate.

Gopi Kallayil · JUN 14, 2026

Future of Work

How Nancy Pelosi Got Me into AI Trading

What happened when a complete investing newb let apps, politicians, and chatbots explain and trade the market.

JUN 12, 2026

Infrastructure & Compute

The Bottleneck Migrates

Everyone is arguing about whether AI will start improving itself. Almost nobody is asking the more useful question: if it does, what runs out first?

Ben Pouladian · JUN 10, 2026

Models

My Week with Fable

A week with Fable Mythos revealed unmatched autonomy, deep reasoning, and a few frustrating trade-offs.

Matthew Berman · JUN 9, 2026

Infrastructure & Compute

Model Routing Will Control the Future of Economic Value

Why intelligent model routing will determine AI costs, efficiency, and economic value at scale.

Tomás Hernando Kofman · JUN 6, 2026

Policy & Governance

AI’s Environmental Bargain

AOC’s jar of brown water was misleading. But the conversation she started is important.

Jonah Lipsitt · JUN 5, 2026

General

Local LLMs, Buy a GPU, and the Case for Cognitive Security

Why local AI models matter for understanding, questioning, and controlling machine-mediated thinking.

Ahmad M. Osman · JUN 4, 2026

General

Economists Just “Proved” UBI Can’t Stop AI Layoffs — Here’s What They Actually Proved

A new paper claims UBI can't stop AI-driven layoffs. The catch: they defined basic income as a number that can't change anything, then act surprised when it didn't.

Scott Santens · JUN 2, 2026

General

How AI is Transforming Hospitality (And Why Every Industry Should Pay Attention)

Gopi Kallayil · JUN 2, 2026

General

Four Harnesses, Four Philosophies

The harness is becoming the new control plane in AI infrastructure.

Janakiram MSV · MAY 29, 2026

General

Anthropic Is Not on Your Side

Actions speak louder than words. Follow the money.

David Shapiro · MAY 26, 2026

General

The Rise of the Agent Manager: How AI Is Redefining Work, Not Replacing It

Inside Salesforce's vision for a future where everyone becomes a strategic orchestrator of intelligent systems

Nick Wentz · MAY 25, 2026

General

The 10T Threshold

What it actually takes, hardware and software, to serve a 10 trillion parameter model. The era of fitting a frontier model in a single rack just ended.

Ben Pouladian · MAY 13, 2026

General

The Mom Was Right. Her Reasons Were Wrong.

A viral r/antiai post had the right instinct on kids and AI. The reasons don't hold up.

APR 30, 2026

General

DeepSeek V4 Shakes AI Market with Low-Cost Power

DeepSeek V4 delivers near-frontier AI at far lower cost, forcing US firms to rethink pricing, strategy, and risk.

Matthew Berman · APR 28, 2026

General

GPT-5.5 Just Dropped, I’ve Been Testing It for the Last Two Weeks

GPT-5.5 sets a new AI standard with human-like responses, token efficiency, and powerful coding performance

Matthew Berman · APR 23, 2026

General

Universal Basic Income Is Your Productivity Dividend. It’s the Only Way to Share What We All Built.

Why Universal Basic Income (UBI) is the only way to share AI and productivity gains with everyone

Scott Santens · MAR 15, 2026

General

Universal Basic Income Focuses on Stability Not Replacing Work

How universal basic income protects workers, wages, and democracy in an AI-disrupted economy

Scott Santens · DEC 19, 2025

General

The AI Compute Boom Has Room for Everyone

Inside Google's TPUs and the Supply Chain That Powers Both Giants

Ben Pouladian · DEC 12, 2025

General

Anthropic Chose Boring Over Viral, and It’s Paying Off

How Anthropic’s focus on safe, enterprise AI is outpacing rivals chasing consumer hype and short-term virality.

Nick Wentz · NOV 11, 2025

General

The Line Is Disappearing: Inside Figma's Bet on AI-Native Product Development

How CTO Kris Rasmussen is reimagining what it means to build software when the tools can think

Nick Wentz · NOV 9, 2025

General

How LIV Golf Is Betting on Technology to Transform the Sport

Inside the challenger league's strategy to attract new audiences, optimize athlete performance, and tell better stories

Nick Wentz · NOV 7, 2025

General

Day in the Life of a Researcher at Microsoft

This original series spotlights Microsoft researchers—their work, their impact, and the ideas shaping the future of AI.

Nick Wentz · NOV 6, 2025

General

The Orchestration Era: How AI Agents Will Transform Work (Without Replacing Workers)

Silvio Savarese has spent his career teaching machines to see the world. Now he's focused on helping them act in it, and that shift changes everything.

Nick Wentz · NOV 6, 2025

General

Live From Dreamforce: Marc Benioff on AI's Promise and Limits

At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce's CEO offers something the tech industry desperately needs: optimism tempered by truth.

Nick Wentz · NOV 2, 2025