Everything I write about artificial intelligence lands here. Less of the demo-day theater, more of what sits underneath it: the compute, the real economics, and the distance between what gets announced and what actually ships.
SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are racing to public markets within months of each other, combining for a potential $135 billion equity supply wave. None…
Nvidia guided $91 billion for next quarter. Data center is 88% of revenue. A 71% gross margin on hardware. I cannot tell if this…
SpaceX is about to go public at a $1.75 trillion valuation in the largest IPO in history. The deep dive on the technology, Starlink,…
The author discusses an alternative approach to AI writing tools, emphasizing local models that run without external prompts or subscriptions. By using quantization, smaller…
Chicago's AI is industrial, not chatbots: robotics, logistics and insurance startups with real customers. Why applied industrial AI may be the smarter bet.
OpenAI's model lineup has evolved dramatically by June 2026, with GPT-5.5 now leading the frontier. From GPT-4 Turbo's 128K token window to GPT-5.5's advanced…
Jetson Thor owns the humanoid robot; Qualcomm Dragonwing is fighting for the high-volume middle. The 2026 edge robotics compute split, broken down.
MIT researchers unveil groundbreaking techniques that deliver 4x training speedups and 60% cost reductions, while Intel's new AI-optimized processors democratize access to advanced AI…
mHUB gives Chicago something no pure-software city has: a hardware incubator with prototyping labs and a manufacturing supply chain, positioned perfectly for the physical…
In April 2026, Nothing launched the Phone (4a) simultaneously in India and Japan, marking its first direct entry into Japan's competitive market. The midrange…
Mistral AI sells intelligence through models and APIs, Cerebras sells raw compute through wafer-scale silicon. A no-nonsense breakdown of two very different AI revenue…
Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ10 packs an 18-core Oryon CPU, up to 700 TOPS, a safety island, and dense sensor I/O. A voice-driven architecture deep dive,…
The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park is turning a shuttered South Side steel site into North America's largest quantum hub. The plan, the money,…
The post details the rapid advancement of AI from 2023 to 2026, highlighting significant investments, partnerships, and innovations in infrastructure, robotics, and consumer devices,…
Renesas, Microchip and Ceva are pushing AI inference onto microcontrollers at milliwatt budgets. Inside the TinyML architecture war for the volume edge.
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