Star Trek didn't just predict technology — it set the cultural coordinates for what humanity was supposed to be reaching toward. Then Kurtzman broke the mythology. Now Paramount is doing a hard reset. And it matters far more than a TV franchise story.

Nvidia, Tesla, xAI, and SpaceX aren't competing with each other. They're assembling a vertical stack from silicon to space. Here's what that means — and where the real bottleneck still lives.

OpenClaw 4.11 lets you import your entire ChatGPT history into a Dreaming memory system that learns who you are. For those of us who've been archiving AI output for years — this is the payoff.

Two of the most advanced AI labs in the world have independently built models so capable at hacking they won't release them publicly. The IMF is alarmed. So is the Fed. Here's what's actually happening.

I didn't plan to be awake at 4am last night. But I never do. I downloaded Google AI Edge Gallery on my iPhone and the next time I looked up it was past 4 in the morning.

Jensen Huang said AI needs a system of record to know what's actually true. He was describing enterprise software. But the logical architecture he outlined points somewhere else entirely.

A vibe coding app made a commercial that looks more like Apple than Apple does. Then Apple pulled it from the App Store. The internet noticed.

Five signals. One conclusion. The grid hit its limit at the very beginning of the demand curve — before 84% of humanity ever typed a prompt. The canary has been dead for a while.

Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Jefferies have all stood up dedicated AI infrastructure investment banking practices in the last 90 days. When the banks build teams, the capital follows.

Oracle fired 30,000 people this morning with a 6 AM email. Not because Oracle is struggling. Because Oracle is winning — and winning now means converting human payroll into AI infrastructure as fast as the balance sheet allows. I want to zoom out from that headline. Oracle is not the story. Oracle is a symptom. The story is what's been building for two years, and what a lot of people are about to finally understand the hard way. I have been saying this since early 2024. The r

This morning, tens of thousands of people woke up, checked their phones, and found out they no longer had a job. Not from their manager. Not from HR. From an email sent by 'Oracle Leadership' at 6:00 a.m. The email was brief, formal, and identical across the US, India, Canada, and Mexico. Your role has been eliminated. Today is your final working day. Sign the DocuSign to receive severance. Your system access has already been revoked. Somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 peopl

I wrote about this last year. Not in an academic paper. Not in a think piece with seventeen citations. In a blog post about CrossFit for your brain, a client who cried, and the guy who watched two YouTube videos on crypto and now offers unsolicited wealth advice. The point was simple: AI is the first tool in history that lets you be wrong without shame. And that is an incredible gift — if you use it right. But there is a dark side to that same feature, and a new paper out of

There is a certain kind of irony that only the AI era could produce. Yesterday, an engineer named Kevin Naughton Jr. posted one of the more remarkable confessions in recent tech history. As the engineer responsible for shipping the latest dev/claude-code npm package, he wanted to improve the debugging experience for his team. Noble goal. Standard practice. So he included source maps in the release. If you are not a developer, here is what that means: source maps are essential

About a year ago I started saying the App Store was dead. Not today-dead. Not literally-no-apps-exist dead. But dead in the way that matters strategically — dead as a paradigm, dead as the dominant interface layer between humans and computing, dead as the thing developers should be building toward. I got flack for it. I still get flack for it. So let me update the thesis — not to say I told you so, but because we can now see the entire shape of what's coming. And it's bigger

There are decisions in life you make alone. And then there are decisions — the real ones — where you know better than to act without counsel. I needed new glasses. Not just any glasses. Meta glasses. The ones with the AI built in. The ones that are either the beginning of ambient computing as a daily reality or the most expensive way to look slightly confused in public. And I knew, before I clicked "add to cart," before I walked into any store, before I entertained a single o

There's a moment that happened this week that I keep thinking about. I was driving down the street on the way to another meeting. A call came in. I hit record — nothing fancy, just a tap — and let the conversation happen. By the time I pulled into my next stop, the meeting was already over. But so was everything else that usually comes after a meeting. The recording had been automatically transcribed. The transcription had been processed into a tactical summary. The summary h

How the Future Started Arriving All at Once. I grew up on the future. Not the real one — the scheduled one. The kind that lived in magazines and predictions, where every breakthrough came with a timestamp. Flying cars? "Someday." Artificial intelligence? "A few decades out." Even when something revolutionary was announced, you still had to wait for it to arrive. That was the unspoken agreement: you'd see the future first… and then, eventually, you'd live in it. But somewhere

I’ve been thinking about last night pretty much since I woke up. It was one of those events where nothing felt overly flashy, but a couple things stuck in a way that doesn’t really let go. Not because they were perfectly explained, but because they pointed at something real. There were two talks. Very different angles, but together they kind of formed a bigger picture that I don’t think either one was explicitly trying to make. The first talk: work is getting compressed had t

AI isn't dividing the world into winners and losers. It's dividing it into two different species. Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir — the company whose software helps governments and intelligence agencies automate decision-making at planetary scale — went on record this week telling people to skip elite colleges. His reasoning was surgical: unless you're neurodivergent, the only path left with real durability is skilled trades. Electricians. Carpenters. Machinists. People who wo

How one jury verdict just unlocked the floodgates on Big Tech's biggest legal nightmare On Wednesday, a Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google negligent for knowingly engineering addictive products that harmed the mental health of a young user. The award was $6 million. The headlines called it a landmark. The lawyers called it a referendum. They're both underselling it. This wasn't a verdict. It was a gate opening. What Actually Happened The case centered on a 20-year-old wom