Input Reads, Output Builds
Why Gemini 4 Argon’s jump from 64K to 1 million output tokens matters more than input context, and why verification becomes the new bottleneck.
The Periphery Is a Choice
Anton Leicht’s case that countries without frontier AI risk a permanent periphery, why walls make it worse, and how sites and megawatts can buy access.
The Day the Cloud Ran Out of Chips
Why AI demand and tight hardware supply make obtainability a third design goal beside performance and cost, and how ranked fallback tiers address it.
Twelve Years Without a VPN
What a decade of BeyondCorp zero trust taught, and a first read of Beyond Zero, which authorizes individual actions as AI agents join the workforce.
TLDR; CIO AI Summit: The Uncomfortable Truths Enterprise AI Leaders Won’t Say Out Loud
Why culture and data quality, not models, hold back enterprise AI, and why processes need redesign rather than automation: notes from a CIO summit.
The 18-Month Myth: Why AI Isn’t Destroying Critical Thinking, It’s Redefining It.
A reply to Thompson’s warning that AI drafting will make people stop thinking: the effort moves to setting intent first and verifying output after.
The Amplifier Effect: Why Your AI Strategy is Failing (and How to Fix It)
A 2025 report finds AI raises software delivery throughput but also instability. The seven DORA capabilities that turn speed into organizational gains.
Beyond the Screen: The Resurgence of Extreme Hardware and Embodied AI
An electric hypercar’s 308.4 mph record and the hard problem of robot dexterity as signs that technology is returning to the physical world.
The Two-Month Sprint That Rewrote the AI Playbook: What NotebookLM Teaches Us About Building in the Age of AI
How three people at Google Labs built a source-grounded AI tool, and what it shows about focus, small teams and shipping before it is perfect.
How AI Just Solved Education’s Oldest Problem
Google Research’s Learn Your Way turns textbooks into personalized lessons. What that could mean for apprenticeships and workforce training in Europe.