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The Priceless AI Just Got a Price Tag
A few months ago the posture inside American companies was simple. Buy the best model money could rent, point it at everything, and let the tokens fly. The Wall Street Journal now calls the replacement posture “thrift-maxxing,” and the description is precise: teams route each task to the cheapest model that can actually finish it,…
The Layer Nobody’s Watching Is the One That Wins
March trade data arrived quietly last week, and almost nobody wrote it up. The economist Joseph Politano (@josephpolitano.bsky.social) flagged that US imports of large computers are running at a record pace amid the AI boom, about $340 billion a year. Not projections. Actual freight crossing actual borders. The number is large enough that it takes…
The Modular Bet
The $800 billion number lands like a verdict. Amazon and Microsoft are spending at a pace that makes Wall Street’s models look like they were written for a different era, and the anxiety attached to that number is not manufactured. The question underneath it is simple and genuinely hard to answer: what does the return…
The Other AI War Nobody Is Covering
The Palantir CTO and Databricks CEO are both saying the same thing: the bottleneck in AI has moved past the model. What that means for the Karpathy story.
The Ownership Question Nobody Is Asking Out Loud
A ransomware crew this week claimed a breach at Foxconn, the contract manufacturer behind Apple, Google, and Nvidia hardware. The scope is still unclear, and the disclosure is the kind of thing that gets buried under a louder news cycle. It shouldn’t be. Sit with it for a moment, because it answers a question the…