Alan reflects on Toy Story 5 and how traditional childhood imagination is being replaced by passive digital consumption, arguing that the true value of both toys and AI lies not in what they do, but in what they challenge us to create ourselves.
An analysis of OpenAI and Anthropic’s looming price war, exploring how falling inference costs will shift AI value from frontier models to applications, agents, and infrastructure.
Anthropic’s AI pause proposal raises a deeper question: can humanity cooperate to govern AI when every competitor believes it can win?
I’m writing this from Cisco Live in Las Vegas, where […]
Meta’s Hyperion project may bring hope and investment to a struggling Louisiana parish, but it also reveals how AI infrastructure is rewriting the rules of economic development, energy consumption and political influence.
Anthropic’s super PAC and OpenAI’s super PAC are spending a combined fortune fighting each other in the midterms. The policy argument underneath is real. The feud has swallowed it whole.
A proposed gigawatt-scale AI data center in a Montana town of 140 people shows why the next phase of the AI race gets won or lost on power, land and community trust, not on benchmark scores.
The AI race is shifting from viral hype to enterprise economics. Anthropic’s massive valuation growth proves that trust, sustainability, and clear ROI are challenging OpenAI’s early consumer lead.
Futurum’s acquisition of ETR has been described as a combination […]
The reason isn’t that AI has become a religious issue. It is that AI is increasingly becoming a human issue. The debate is moving beyond coding assistants, content generation and productivity gains into questions of meaning, work, authority, morality and the future organization of society itself. Those subjects have historically been the domain of religion, philosophy and culture. What’s striking about Magnifica Humanitas is that it is not an anti-technology document. Pope Leo acknowledges the potential benefits of AI and repeatedly emphasizes that technology itself is not the problem. His concern is what happens if societies become organized around machine efficiency rather than human flourishing.
