Articles on AI

Vibe coding and genuine excellence pull in opposite directions. One eliminates the conditions required for craft. The other requires them.

This week's executive brief covers the Musk-OpenAI lawsuit verdict, Gemini 3.5 Flash, major AI acquisitions, layoffs, and a GitHub security breach.

This week's executive brief covers GameStop's eBay takeover bid, AI outperforming ER doctors, AlphaEvolve's launch, and autonomous AI agents deploying infrastructure.

Local LLMs like Mistral Medium 3.5 have crossed the line from research project to real architectural option. Here's who should be looking at on-prem AI.

This week's executive brief covers UAE's OPEC exit, major AI partnerships at OpenAI and Google, nuclear energy shifts, and AI code ownership debates.

Walmart's ChatGPT checkout converted at one-third the rate of its regular website. The failure was a mismatch between what the agent was optimized for and what customers need at the moment of purchase.

This week's executive brief covers Apple's CEO transition, OpenAI's GPT-5.5 release, DeepSeek v4, and AI's growing impact on music streaming.

Developers using AI thought they were 20% faster. A controlled trial found they were 19% slower. That 43-point gap is a governance problem most frameworks don't address.

This week's executive brief covers AI scarcity trends, Amazon antitrust revelations, WordPress supply-chain attacks, and geolocation privacy battles.

Companies stopped replacing junior developers. That quiet shift is eroding the apprenticeship pipeline that produces senior engineers capable of supervising AI.

This week's executive brief covers France's shift to Linux, John Deere's right-to-repair settlement, AI liability legislation, and data center bans.

80% of AI projects fail — twice the rate of conventional IT projects. The reason is a knowledge extraction problem that starts before any technology gets built.

This week's executive brief covers Microsoft's new foundational AI models competing directly with OpenAI, Google's Gemma 4 open-weights release, landmark accountability verdicts against Meta and Google, EU DMA fines hitting Apple and Google, Oracle's 30,000-person layoff, a $285M DeFi exploit, and SpaceX's reported $75B IPO talks.

This week's executive brief covers Meta's $375M child safety verdict, Anthropic blocking the Pentagon's supply chain label, sodium-ion batteries hitting commercial EV specs, the EU's privacy surveillance battle, and a compromised Python package stealing credentials.

This week's executive brief covers Qatar's helium shutdown threatening chips, Yann LeCun raising $1B for physical AI, record private credit defaults, Asian fuel crisis reshaping work, and escalating cyber attacks on medical infrastructure.

Anthropic's new research measures the gap between what AI can theoretically do and what people are actually using it for. The findings reshape how organizations should think about AI workforce strategy.

This week's executive brief covers February's surprise job losses, the AI-written code verification problem, Nvidia exiting OpenAI and Anthropic, drone attacks on AWS data centers, and Apple's $599 MacBook.

METR's developer productivity study collapsed because developers refuse to work without AI. What that means for how organizations should measure AI investments.

This week's executive brief covers OpenAI's massive funding round, Anthropic's clash with the Pentagon over military AI, the US-Israel strike on Iran, and Amazon's alleged price-fixing scheme.

The AI failures that cost real money aren't the spectacular ones. They're quiet — silent model updates, unmonitored systems, pilot gaps, and automating broken processes.

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