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Trump's Iran Deal Hype Meets Geneva's Burning Tesla Moment

Trump's Iran Deal Hype Meets Geneva's Burning Tesla Moment

OpenAI is trapped in a behavioral consistency death spiral: every tuning adjustment to please one user segment alienates another, forcing reactive patches that create new inconsistencies. Meanwhile, the company's advertising data shows no performance hit from AI disclosure labels—removing the last e

The Price Tag Is a Lie

The Price Tag Is a Lie

Published per-token pricing measures one variable in a system with a dozen cost drivers. What you pay per million tokens is the invoice. What you actually spend to get a working output in production is the bill. These are different documents.

Nvidia Is Selling You the Knife

Nvidia Is Selling You the Knife

IBM had built a beautiful recurring revenue business renting compute time. Then the minicomputer arrived. The customers who could run their workloads locally stopped renting. The ones who couldn't stayed. The market bifurcated along capability lines, and the capability line kept moving down toward

The Energy Bill Always Comes Due

The Energy Bill Always Comes Due

Sometime in the past few months, 49,000 people living near Lake Tahoe learned that their power grid was being quietly redirected toward data centers. Not cut off entirely, not yet, but rerouted in ways that made their service less reliable, their outages more frequent, their complaints less urgent

The Last Thing You'll Ever Teach

The Last Thing You'll Ever Teach

There's a particular kind of workplace request that sounds like opportunity. A manager pulls someone aside, explains that the company is investing in new technology, and asks if they'd be willing to help document their workflow. Maybe record a few screen sessions. Walk through the decision tree

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.

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