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The Bootloader and the IPO Pop
Cerebras opened today and closed up 108%. Five and a half billion raised, and within hours the market had agreed the offering was underpriced by several billion dollars more. This is not price discovery. Price discovery happens when someone with a different model meets someone else with a different model and they negotiate. A 108%…
The Ownership Question Nobody Is Asking Out Loud
A ransomware crew this week claimed a breach at Foxconn, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer that assembles the physical hardware for $AAPL, $GOOGL, and $NVDA. 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. The…
The Race Isn’t for the Model. It’s for the Floor.
Google is reportedly accelerating its push to put Gemini at the center of Android before Apple ships its AI reboot. The framing in the coverage is competitive — 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…
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…
The Toll Booth Beneath Every Agent
The Solana Foundation announced this week that it is partnering with Google Cloud to build stablecoin payment rails for AI agents. Most coverage filed it under “crypto news.” That category undersells what was actually announced. The move treats agents as economic actors that will need to pay each other — for compute, for data, for…