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The Confirmation Effect
So, I just finished watching Jensen Huang sitting next to Elon Musk — both of them nodding in agreement — saying there’s no AI bubble. And, you know what? That hit exactly the way I thought it would. Because it’s not a revelation; it’s confirmation. I wrote two days ago that there is no AI bubble — only a delusion bubble — and this, right here, is the proof. Not because Jensen said it, but because he had to say it. The narrative has finally caught up to the math. This is wh

Rich Washburn
Nov 193 min read


When the Safety Net Snaps
It happened again. The one thing that’s not supposed to go down … went down. This morning, Cloudflare — the safety net of the internet, the infrastructure under the infrastructure — tripped over itself and faceplanted. If AWS is the backbone, Cloudflare is the connective tissue. It’s the silent middle layer that makes sure your site doesn’t go dark when other things do. Except today, it did. And when Cloudflare stumbles, it’s not just one site that goes offline — it’s an ent

Rich Washburn
Nov 184 min read


Warren Buffett Just Bet on Google — And That’s Bigger Than It Looks
When Berkshire Hathaway makes a move, markets don’t just react—they pause. Because when Warren Buffett, the high priest of long-term value, decides to buy something, it’s usually not a guess. It’s a signal. This week, that signal came in the form of a $4.3 billion stake in Alphabet, Google’s parent company. The buy makes Alphabet one of Berkshire’s top ten holdings, right alongside American Express, Coca-Cola, and of course, the ever-beloved Apple. And that, in itself, is al

Rich Washburn
Nov 164 min read


We’re All Looking at the Same Map: Reflections on Mary Meeker’s AI Trends
Every era of technology has its cartographers. People who climb high enough above the noise to see the shape of what’s coming, and then translate it into something the rest of us can navigate. For decades, Mary Meeker has been one of those people. Her Internet Trends reports shaped the early web, the mobile wave, and the first real data-driven understanding of our digital lives. And her new deep-dive into AI marks another one of those moments where her view from altitude cl

Rich Washburn
Nov 144 min read


Yann LeCun’s Quiet Power Move
Why the Godfather of Deep Learning Might Be Plotting the Next AI Revolution — And Why It Matters More Than You Think You know those moments where something big is happening, but it doesn’t come with fireworks or a keynote stage? It’s just... quiet. Subtle. But seismic? This might be one of those moments. Word’s coming out — mostly whispered, not shouted — that Yann LeCun , Meta’s Chief AI Scientist, is preparing to exit the company and start his own research lab or startup.

Rich Washburn
Nov 124 min read


The Most Dangerous Person in the Room Now Runs on Operational Power
It used to be the one with the title. The corner office. The authority. Not anymore. Today, the most dangerous person in any room isn’t chasing applause, approval, or perception. They’re the one sitting quietly in the back — calm, confident, and completely underestimated — because they’re running a system in their head no one else can see. That’s operational power — and it’s rewriting everything you think you know about hierarchy, influence, and control. The Old Game: Power T

Rich Washburn
Nov 124 min read


How Do You Say “Sputnik” in Chinese?
Quantum Just Went Rack-Mountable — And Everything Just Changed Let’s not bury the lead. China just launched a 100-qubit, room-temperature quantum computer — and you can rack it in your data center. Not a prototype. Not a physics experiment. An actual product. Shipping now. Called Hanyuan-1 . Three server racks. Neutral-atom architecture. Plug and play. Let me translate that into reality: This week, quantum computing went from science fiction to IT procurement. From Lab Equip

Rich Washburn
Nov 104 min read


AI: The Everyman’s Revolution — The End of Institutional Authority
You’ve probably heard me say this before: the system isn’t broken — it’s working exactly as designed. Hospitals, banks, insurance companies, government agencies — all of them have operated for decades on a simple, ugly truth: the less you understand, the more they can charge you. That’s not cynicism. That’s architecture. It’s called institutional information asymmetry — and it’s the invisible engine behind every “policy,” “procedure,” and “unavoidable fee” you’ve ever been hi

Rich Washburn
Nov 94 min read


PSA: Meta Knows It’s Profiting from Scamming You — and They're Okay With That
Let’s not sugarcoat it: Meta has been knowingly profiting from scam ads on its platforms, and new internal documents show just how deep the rabbit hole goes. According to a bombshell Reuters investigation , Meta (yes, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) internally projected that 10% of its 2024 revenue — roughly $16 billion — would come from ads promoting scams, fraud, or banned products. Not suspected scams. Not accidental ones. These are known bad acto

Rich Washburn
Nov 73 min read


The Great Scrape: How Reddit vs. Perplexity Exposed the Broken Economics of the AI Era
The internet just caught AI in the act — but the crime scene looks more like a mirror. Reddit set a “honey pot” — a fake post visible only to Google’s crawler. When Perplexity’s AI surfaced that invisible post, it confirmed what many suspected: Perplexity wasn’t just browsing the open web; it was pulling from Google’s cached Reddit content via proxy networks like OxyLabs, WMProxy, and SerpAPI. In plain English: Reddit built a locked vault, Google indexed the vault, and Perpl

Rich Washburn
Nov 63 min read


Trustwidth: The Quantum Internet Era Has Begun
We just teleported the state of light through a live internet cable. That’s not metaphor — it’s infrastructure now. Let’s talk about what that means for trust, sovereignty, security, and how we even define “sending information” anymore. “Beam Me Up” Just Became a Network Protocol Not to get overly sci-fi here, but yes — we’re officially in Star Trek territory. In 2025, scientists at Northwestern University teleported the quantum state of a photon across 30 kilometers of comm

Rich Washburn
Nov 64 min read


MELISSA MAKES LANDFALL: HISTORY, HAVOC, AND A PERFECT MONSTER
At 1:01 p.m. Eastern, the storm everyone feared finally crossed the line. Hurricane Melissa — the once-theoretical “worst-case” storm for Jamaica — made landfall near New Hope, St. Elizabeth Parish, with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph and a central pressure of 892 millibars. That ties it with the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane and Hurricane Dorian (2019) as the strongest landfall ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin. One hundred years later, nature just broke its own record — ag

Rich Washburn
Oct 284 min read


MELISSA OVER JAMAICA: A PERFECT, TERRIBLE MACHINE
I’ve always had a thing for weather.Not the polite kind—the afternoon sprinkle on your windshield or the thunder rolling off somewhere near the horizon. No, I’m talking about the kind of weather that gets under your skin. The kind that hums with voltage. The kind that feels like the planet taking a deep breath before it decides what happens next. Hurricanes have always been that for me. They’re chaos and order intertwined—fluid, elegant, and terrifying. I’ve stood through the

Rich Washburn
Oct 285 min read


Macrohard: The Schrödinger’s Startup That Might Build the Future (or Be the Ultimate Musk Troll)
If you’ve been on the internet in the last 48 hours, you’ve probably seen that photo — a massive white-roofed facility in Memphis with MACROHARD painted across it in letters so huge you can literally see them from space. And of course, it came straight from Elon Musk’s X account. Classic Elon: half-joke, half-omen, and somehow both at the same time. This is the same man who named a car line “S3XY,” sent a sports car into orbit, and made flamethrowers a consumer product. So

Rich Washburn
Oct 223 min read


This Browser Just Killed a Thousand Startups (and Maybe Gave Birth to the Next Internet)
So… OpenAI just dropped Atlas , their brand-new AI-powered browser . And somewhere out there, a thousand Chrome extensions just quietly curled up and died. Copy helpers, summarizers, productivity widgets, those sidebar AI things everyone rushed to build last year — all gone in one press release. Atlas basically did to browser plug-ins what the iPhone did to the flip phone industry: it smiled, waved politely, and rewrote the rules of the game. But under the hood, this isn’t ju

Rich Washburn
Oct 215 min read


AWS 311-DOWN-DOWN
When us-east-1 Sneezes, the Internet Gets a Cold At exactly 3:11 AM this morning—because apparently the cloud has a flair for irony— Amazon Web Services’ us-east-1 region tripped over its own DNS resolver and faceplanted, taking half the internet down with it. For those of us of a certain age, sipping our morning coffee while watching dashboards fail to load, there was only one thing going through our heads: 🎶 Gonna take the internet down… down… 🎶 Yes. 311. The band. The

Rich Washburn
Oct 203 min read


The Power Paradox: Florida’s Data Center Boom and Who Really Pays the Bill
So here’s the thing. Florida is finally stepping into the data center conversation — and about time. As an AI accelerationist, Floridian, and someone knee-deep in the world of GPUs and power systems, I’m watching this one closely. Because what’s playing out in the Florida Public Service Commission isn’t just a local issue — it’s a glimpse at how the AI revolution collides with infrastructure reality. For the first time, regulators are trying to figure out how to handle the en

Rich Washburn
Oct 173 min read


Apple Just Blinked: Why Cupertino’s Pivot to AI Glasses Proves Meta Won the First Round
You can tell Apple isn’t being run by Steve Jobs anymore. This week, Bloomberg confirmed something that would’ve been unthinkable a...

Rich Washburn
Oct 54 min read


It’s On: The AI Arms Race Just Went Nuclear (Literally)
Take a breath. Now take another, deeper one. Because what just dropped in the last 72 hours isn’t just “big tech news” — it’s a...

Rich Washburn
Sep 234 min read


Farewell, Charlie Kirk: A Torch That Will Not Go Out
` Today was something America has never seen before. For the first time in our history, both the President and the Vice President showed...

Rich Washburn
Sep 212 min read
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