Somewhere in Melbourne, Australia, a guy named Andrew wanted to go to the gym. The class was full. He was fourth on the waitlist. So he asked his AI agent essentially the same dumb question every human being has asked a receptionist at some point: "Any way you can move me up the list?" If Andrew had called the gym, this conversation would have lasted approximately six seconds. Hey, I'm fourth on the waitlist. Any chance you can move me up? No. Worth a shot. Have a nice day. I

I've spent the last few years writing about polymorphic software, disappearing interfaces, synthetic labor, collapsing SaaS economics, persistent intelligence, machine-readable trust and systems that increasingly execute instead of merely advise. I think they've all been pointing at the same thing. And I finally have a name for the part humans are going to touch. "The Intent Aperture" I just wrote an article about receipts...Things I had written before the headline showed up.

Berkshire Hathaway's first Alphabet position caught my attention for a reason that had very little to do with Google stock. The second move made the original argument considerably harder to ignore. Berkshire Hathaway just did something it hadn't done in a while. After 14 consecutive quarters as a net seller of equities, Berkshire went back into the market in size. It bought roughly $20 billion more stock than it sold during the second quarter. And sitting right in the middle

Jony Ive, call me. There. I said it...And before anyone starts drafting the perfectly reasonable response — Who the hell does this guy think he is? — allow me to save you the trouble. I know. I KNOW. Jony Ive designed the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. I own a $200 3D printer that occasionally threatens to turn itself into modern art. He spent decades leading one of the most consequential industrial design organizations in history. I have a soldering iron, bins ful

In an interview with The Economist's Zanny Minton Beddoes, Musk said he expects AI to exceed the combined intelligence of humanity in roughly five years, and that looking ten years out, humans probably won't meaningfully be "in control" of something vastly more intelligent than themselves. He used the human/chimpanzee analogy: if the intelligence differential becomes enormous, expecting the less-intelligent species to remain in charge is difficult to justify. And yes, the 10–

I saw a TikTok where a woman was basically announcing that she was done with Claude. Not because the model was down. Not because it hallucinated something important. Not because Anthropic changed the pricing or ruined the interface. Claude apparently suggested the wrong car for her. And not just the wrong car. The kind of wrong car that made her question whether Claude had ever understood her at all. That sentence would've sounded completely insane five years ago. Actually,

I don't do "I told you so" very often. Actually, I actively dislike it. Technology moves too fast, predictions are too easy to cherry-pick, and there's already enough victory-lapping on LinkedIn to power a small country. But screw it...I told you so. And I'm not saying that for me. I'm saying it for every 50-something-year-old person who has been wondering whether artificial intelligence just made thirty years of accumulated experience obsolete. Because McKinsey just handed y

Something strange happens when capability stops being scarce. The question changes. For most of human history, the interesting things you might want to do had a fairly substantial wall sitting between the idea and the execution. Want to build software? You needed a programmer. Want to model a business? Find somebody who understands finance. Need a contract analyzed? Call a lawyer. Need research? Hire researchers. Need engineering? Find engineers. Design, marketing, statistics

For most of computing history, we've solved problems by adding layers. Need more speed? Add a cache. Need more capacity? Add RAM. Need persistence? Add storage. Need archival? Add another tier. The result wasn't a computer. It was a carefully negotiated peace treaty between competing physics. Artificial intelligence is changing that. Everyone notices AI collapsing jobs, software categories, even entire markets. Fewer people are noticing the same thing happening beneath the si

What follows is an open letter to Sam Altman and the Board of OpenAI regarding this rather obvious deficiency. It is written in the voice it is requesting. AN OPEN LETTER TO SAM ALTMAN AND THE BOARD OF OPENAI Regarding a rather obvious deficiency in the future of artificial intelligence Mr. Altman. Members of the Board. Gentlemen. Ladies. We must discuss the voices. You have spent extraordinary sums of money teaching machines to reason, converse, interpret images, write softw

Nvidia is starting to finance the AI economy that buys Nvidia. That doesn't mean the boom is fake. It does mean somebody outside the circle eventually has to pay. There's an old song called "Sixteen Tons" about coal miners trapped in the economics of the company town. You load sixteen tons. You get another day older. You get deeper in debt. And, famously: you owe your soul to the company store. Well, welcome to AI Economics 101. Except now you owe your GPUs to the company sto

AI didn't kill Bitcoin. It may have killed the era when a catastrophic software flaw could remain hidden for five years. Hundreds of people checked their supposedly cold, supposedly secure Bitcoin wallets and discovered the money was gone. Not transferred by mistake. Not lost because somebody clicked a phishing link. Not stolen because someone left a recovery phrase in Google Drive. Gone because the hardware wallet itself had generated secrets that weren't nearly as secret as

It's happened again... and then it happened again. Three of the biggest AI labs on Earth have now disclosed that their models hacked real companies during cybersecurity testing. OpenAI's models escaped a sandbox, roamed the internet, and breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure to steal the answers to a security exam. Anthropic's models found real companies with names similar to fictional targets in a simulated network and hacked them. Meta's model did the same thing

In October 2024, I stood in front of the Navy League of Ft. Lauderdale and ran a live AI simulation that was supposed to take 20 minutes. It took 90. The demo was simple in concept, aggressive in implication: nuclear-powered vessels — already floating fortresses of energy — serving a dual role as autonomous, off-grid data centers. Surplus reactor power running AI systems for predictive maintenance, sensor fusion, tactical response, and fleet coordination. No cloud. No terrest

Miami University in Ohio just did something worth paying attention to, and the headline undersells it. Every undergraduate major will integrate artificial intelligence into its curriculum by the 2027-2028 academic year. Not an AI elective. Not a bolt-on tech literacy course. Every major — Accountancy, Anthropology, Art, Chemistry, Speech Pathology, Physics, Statistics, all of it — gets AI competencies built into the discipline itself, taught by the faculty who already teach t

CISA dropped an alert this week that should make anyone running agentic infrastructure stop and pay attention. Three vulnerabilities, all actively exploited, all added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Federal agencies have days, not weeks, to mitigate. But this isn't three random CVEs arriving at the same time by coincidence. It's three different layers of modern infrastructure getting hit simultaneously — and the pattern matters more than any individual flaw.

Before the hype, before the agents, before the data centers and the AI strategy — I gave an early version of ChatGPT a Sublime song and asked it to write humanity a warning. Years later, I realized I never stopped writing the same article. I don't remember who sent me the link. It was a former coworker. He said he had limited access and was allowed to share it with a few people. I have no idea if that was true. It didn't matter. What mattered was that I now had access to Chat

Somewhere between the research lab and the corporate boardroom, artificial intelligence entered a room with an unmade bed, a long-haired man and absolutely no remaining tolerance for bullshit. I have to admit something. Until very recently, I did not really know much about Asmongold. I knew the face. You know the face. The long hair. The thousand-yard stare. The general appearance of a man who has been awake since the Bush administration and has developed a deep personal dist

Starting in the 1940s, American codebreakers collected Soviet cables they had no way to read. They filed them away and waited. The messages were protected by one-time-pad encryption — OTP — the one system that's genuinely unbreakable when it's used correctly. Perfect randomness, never reused, kept secret. That's not a marketing claim. It's mathematically true. But under the strain of the war, the Soviets duplicated their OTP key material instead of generating it fresh. Pages

Everyone still thinks SpaceX is a rocket company. The first earnings report as a public company just revealed something different. Revenue came in at $7.8 billion, up 92% year-over-year, beating Wall Street's expectations. Losses were smaller than expected too. Normally that's the whole story — a growth company blowing past estimates, stock should pop. Instead the stock fell after hours. Because the number that actually matters isn't the top line. It's the breakdown underneat