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When the Incumbents Make Your Argument

When the Incumbents Make Your Argument

Dell Technologies, the company that built the infrastructure for centralization, just made the case for distributed AI. When the incumbents start arguing your position, you are either vindicated or about to be absorbed. Maybe both.

OpenClaw and the Architecture Nobody Noticed

OpenClaw and the Architecture Nobody Noticed

Everyone is writing about the OpenClaw acqui-hire as an agents story. It is an agents story. But the reason OpenClaw worked has almost nothing to do with agents and almost everything to do with where the compute happened.

When in Doubt, Go Up: Orbital Data Centers and the Limits of Architectural Imagination

When in Doubt, Go Up: Orbital Data Centers and the Limits of Architectural Imagination

Two weeks ago, a company filed paperwork with the FCC requesting permission to launch up to one million satellites into low Earth orbit. Not communication satellites. Not GPS. Data center satellites. Solar-powered, laser-linked orbital compute nodes, designed to run AI inference workloads from space. The filing included the phrase "