- Open Source Is Geopolitics Now — And China Is Winning
Kimi K3, WAICO, and the numbers that show China is winning the AI distribution war through open source. How local hosting works across the US, Europe, and the Global South — and why your data never needs to go to China. - The ROI Problem Is Really a Cost Problem
Why the enterprise AI ROI struggle is a cost problem, not a measurement problem. Fix your cost structure first, and the ROI problem will solve itself. - The AI Race Just Shifted Again — Grok 4.5, Muse Spark 1.1, Kimi K3, and the New Global Pecking Order
Grok 4.5 delivers Opus-class performance at 3-8x less cost, and Kimi K3 — the largest open-source model ever — lands days later. The AI frontier race just rearranged — here’s where every major model actually stands. - The Full Lifecycle: How an AI Agent Runs My Social Media and Content Publishing
An AI agent scans the morning news, drafts cross-platform posts, and — the part almost nobody automates — measures what actually landed, with auditable statistics instead of a model’s hunch. The full lifecycle, end to end. - The Builder in the Boardroom
The old model is dead. Boards that outsource technology decisions to consulting firms are losing control of their future. Across Malaysia and Thailand, a new breed of builder-executive is charting their own AI direction — and the data says they’re right. - The Mac Mini Clone Wars — How Apple Inadvertently Created the Hottest Category in Computing
Apple built the Mac Mini as a cheap gateway for PC switchers. Then it accidentally became the perfect AI computer — and now Microsoft, Dell, Lenovo, ASUS, HP, and MSI are racing to copy it with NVIDIA RTX Spark chips that run 120B-parameter models locally. - GEO Is Real. The Platforms Aren’t.
Generative Engine Optimization has arrived — but the AI platforms haven’t built the tools we need. A direct call to OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and DeepSeek to ship real analytics. We’re ready. We’ll pay. - How Open Source Just Changed the World. Again.
Microsoft Build 2026 Wasn’t About Windows. It Was About a Movement. - The Machine That Builds Itself
A solo-built AI platform that ingests, reasons, publishes — and rewrites its own code. Three flywheels, three weeks to production. An operator’s teardown. - The Machine That Dreams: Inside My Personal AI Stack
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how AI eliminates the Non-Value-Add Positions — any role, at any seniority, whose primary function is to collate information, compress it, and forward it upward or downward.…
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