This week’s reading is about taking back control from the defaults that quietly decide things for you, whether that’s your phone’s camera processing, an AI lab’s safety guardrails, or your…

This week: American labs racing to build open-weight AI models before China’s Kimi K3 locks in its lead, the policy fight over banning those Chinese models, and how a toilet…

This week: the White House engineering Intel’s comeback, memory chipmakers cashing in on the AI boom, and why Apple’s privacy crusade might be quietly handing more power to Google and…

This week: OpenAI’s new Mac app buries chat behind confusing “work” branding, Benedict Evans asks whether AI labs keep their pricing power or become commodity infrastructure, and TP-Link tries to…

This week: debunking the AI water panic, why data center opposition is really about fear of job loss, and how a free side project from 2004 became the backbone of…

This week: why younger generations skip the savings lecture, why China can’t This week: why younger generations skip the savings lecture, why China can’t build a jet engine, and what…

This week: reading the Maduro capture as strategic rather than political, why the “collaborator” frame for LLMs leads to skill atrophy, and Dean W. Ball’s method for building differentiated points…

This week: product management as AI conversation, why coding agents must lower maintenance costs or the speed gains won’t stick, and an overstated (but directionally right) case that pure software…

This week: how Joanna Stern uses AI to handle the data work while keeping the thinking her own, why students outsourcing essays is trouble that shows up later, and how…

This week: how ASML built a monopoly no rival can replicate, why your AI architecture matters more than your model, and what Mira Murati’s testimony reveals about Sam Altman’s brief…