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The Year the Open Companies Stopped Being Open
Somewhere in San Francisco this week, a company that put the word “Open” in its name is squaring up against the company that put its product on a billion phones. TechCrunch reports that OpenAI is preparing to move against Apple, and notes in the same breath that Apple has left partners feeling burned before. That…
The Bootloader and the IPO Pop
Cerebras opened today and closed up 108 percent. The company raised $5.5 billion in the first huge tech offering of the year, and within hours the market had agreed the deal was underpriced by several billion dollars more. This is not price discovery. Price discovery happens when someone with one model of the future meets…
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…
The Race Isn’t for the Model. It’s for the Floor.
Google is accelerating its push to put Gemini at the center of Android before Apple ships its AI reboot, and the coverage treats it as a sprint: who launches first, whose model is more capable, whose demo lands cleaner. That framing misses what the race is actually about. By the time you are choosing between…
The Agent Wars Are a Filter Problem in a Trench Coat
Cerebras moved its IPO range up to a $4.8 billion raise. That is the number, but it is not the story. The story is that a chip company built specifically to train and serve very large models is being repriced upward in the same week that Meta and Google both publicly entered what the press…
The Sales Floor Is the Tell
The story that should be on every front page this week is not Meta and Google announcing their own AI agents. It is buried two paragraphs deep in an industry email: OpenAI and Anthropic, the two companies whose products are supposed to dissolve the friction of human sales work, have outsourced their own sales teams…