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Price per Intelligence Unit
When you buy electricity, you buy kilowatt-hours. When you buy bandwidth, you buy bits-per-second. When you buy storage, you buy gigabytes. When you buy AI intelligence in 2026, you buy tokens, which are easy to meter and easy to price, but hard to value. This sounds like a technical detail. It isn’t. It may become the most important AI procurement question enterprises face over the next 18 months. Continue Reading →

When AI Builds Itself

Anthropic published a remarkable paper this week called "When AI Builds Itself." Their engineers now ship roughly eight times more code per quarter than they did in 2024. More than 80% of the code merged into Anthropic’s codebase is written by Claude, up from low single digits before Claude Code launched in February 2025. Continue Reading →

The Next Question

Advocatus Diaboli
I recently watched a board chair say "good question, moving on" three times in ninety minutes. Each time, the room exhaled. The question had been acknowledged. Nobody had to answer it. That evening, I put the same three questions to my AI Board of Directors. It asked several follow-up questions I had not anticipated. Two of them changed my mind about the underlying decision. Continue Reading →

Claude 4.8 is Here

Anthropic yesterday released Claude Opus 4.8, which the company calls it "a modest but tangible improvement" over Opus 4.7. When a vendor undersells its own launch, pay attention to which number it is quietly proud of. Continue Reading →
Amazon Web Services just announced the Agentic Shopping Assistant (ASA): a packaged version of the technology behind Amazon's own shopping assistant, now offered to other retailers. The service lets competitors launch their own AI shopping assistants in about 60 days using Amazon's architecture, starter code, and AWS engineers. Continue Reading →
Researchers at X41 D-Sec disclosed "BadHost," a critical vulnerability in Starlette, the open-source Python framework embedded into roughly 325 million new software builds every week. If your enterprise has stood up an AI agent in the last 18 months, some part of the stack runs on Starlette. Continue Reading →
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich launched a website this week asking Americans to report data center concerns in their communities. She's positioning herself as the voice against AI infrastructure expansion across the United States. Continue Reading →

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