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The Frontier Became a Club

The Frontier Became a Club

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview is not unavailable. It is available to eleven specific organizations under a program called Project Glasswing, with $100M in usage credits attached, and to nobody else. The frontier did not get cut off from the rest of the industry. It became a consortium. And the p

For Londoners, a Roman Bridge Still Determines Your Commute

For Londoners, a Roman Bridge Still Determines Your Commute

London's shape was decided by a Roman bridge at the narrowest practical crossing of the Thames around 50 CE. Two thousand years later, every commute, every property value, every neighborhood boundary still cascades from that one engineering choice. Datasets work the same way. The decisions that shap

The Permission Problem

ai-infrastructure

The Permission Problem

Loudoun County, Virginia, was the most permissive jurisdiction in the United States for hyperscale data center construction. As of this quarter, it has more active moratorium proposals on its docket than any comparable jurisdiction. The reversal happened in eighteen months, and it is happening for r

The Only Guarantee Is Your Catalog Will Be Wrong. Eventually.

The Only Guarantee Is Your Catalog Will Be Wrong. Eventually.

The industry has converged on the right diagnosis: metadata is the substrate for enterprise AI. Every productized prescription is wrong in the same way. Catalogs run after the data has already moved, which is why every catalog you have ever seen is wrong, and why the only question is how fast.

You Can’t Sue an Agent

You Can’t Sue an Agent

The SaaSpocalypse panic crowd and the V-shaped recovery crowd both missed what a SaaS company actually is. It isn’t a database with a UI. It’s a counterparty with skin in the game. Agents don’t have any.

Six Million Cell Towers Walk Into a Data Center

Six Million Cell Towers Walk Into a Data Center

At MWC Barcelona, NVIDIA and a 130-company coalition just announced plans to turn the global telecom network into a distributed AI compute grid. Cell towers running AI inference alongside 5G traffic. The industry is spending $700 billion building new centralized data centers while ignoring the large

The Great Refusal

The Great Refusal

In six weeks, 300+ data center bills have been filed across 30+ states. Six states have moratorium proposals. Local governments in 14 states have already hit pause. The industry frames this as a PR problem. It is an architecture problem.

One Year After DeepSeek and The $600 Billion Question

One Year After DeepSeek and The $600 Billion Question

What would you do with a sum of money equivalent to 2% of the US GDP?

The Agentic AI Infrastructure Gap: Everyone's Building Agents. Nobody's Building the Substrate.

The Agentic AI Infrastructure Gap: Everyone's Building Agents. Nobody's Building the Substrate.

Salesforce dropped its 2026 Connectivity Report this morning, and there's a stat in there that perfectly captures what's going wrong with enterprise AI: 50% of deployed AI agents operate in complete isolation from each other. Half. They can't share context, they can't

GitOps & Infrastructure

10 Years of Distributed Computing with Kubernetes

A look back at the history of Kubernetes and where it's headed (hint: it's about the data).