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Brian Brown

Brian Brown

New York, NY
20 years merging code, design, and storytelling for global brands. Writes about AI, emerging tech, and the culture around both before the consensus forms.
Trump's Iran Deal Hype Meets Geneva's Burning Teslas

Trump's Iran Deal Hype Meets Geneva's Burning Teslas

A US-Iran deal announcement lands while Tehran denies the timeline and fuel prices spike. Meanwhile, the RTX 5090 is rewriting local LLM inference benchmarks, and the UK is intercepting Russian oil tankers in the English Channel.
Brian Brown 13 Jun 2026
The $10,000 Lesson AMD Just Taught Every Security Researcher

The $10,000 Lesson AMD Just Taught Every Security Researcher

Imagine you find a hole in the wall of a bank. Not a metaphorical hole. A real one, where someone with the right tools could walk in after hours and help themselves. You could tell the bank. You could tell someone else. You decide to tell the bank, because that's the right thing to do, and because
Brian Brown 13 Jun 2026
The Last Toll Road to Space

The Last Toll Road to Space

There's a number that keeps appearing in the coverage of Thursday's SpaceX IPO, and everyone is treating it like the story. One trillion dollars. Elon Musk, [world's first trillionaire](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/spacex-ipo-closes-up-19-and-delivers-the-worlds-first-trillionaire/), SpaceX
Brian Brown 13 Jun 2026

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