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The Layer Nobody’s Watching Is the One That Wins
March trade data arrived quietly last week: US imports of large computers hit a pace of $340 billion a year. Not projections. Actual freight crossing actual borders. The number is so large it requires a moment to sit with — more than the GDP of many countries, flowing in as hardware, in a single year,…
The Real Bottleneck Is Never the Thing You Think It Is
Alphabet is studying the possibility of putting data centers in orbit. That sentence sounds like a science fiction pitch meeting. It isn’t. It’s a real estate problem wearing a spacesuit. Here’s what’s actually happening: the AI buildout has run into something that no amount of software elegance can dissolve — physics. Land costs money and…
The Modular Bet
The $800 billion number lands like a verdict. Amazon, Microsoft — the spending pace makes Wall Street’s models look like they were written for a different era. The anxiety is real: what does the return curve look like on infrastructure at this scale, deployed this fast, into a technology still finding its shape? But the…
The Day the Agents Started Working in Shifts
A week ago an agent was something you summoned. You typed, it answered, you moved on. By the end of today, depending on which corner of the internet you were reading, an agent was something that bought your groceries, traded your portfolio, settled invoices in stablecoins between two banks that have never spoken to each…
Everyone Is Quietly Building Their Own Escape Route
Microsoft is building its own coding models. Not licensing them. Building them. The Information’s reporting this week made it sound like an offensive, but what it actually is, is a renovation — pulling out the load-bearing wall that used to be OpenAI and rebuilding the structure so the house stands without it. $MSFT spent years…
The Substrate Always Wins
Broadcom announced something today called Tanzu Platform Agent Foundations. The name reads like an apology — three nouns stacked to soften the ambition — but the bet underneath it is direct. AI agents, the company is saying, will not live in the cloud as floating intelligence. They will run on something. And that something will…