Posts tagged "infrastructure"
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Friday Roundup #15: Failing Where the Pitch Was Loudest
The administration skipped the silencing and went straight to the kill switch, converting 8,000 feds to at-will status. Microsoft became the road malware travels. An AI school camera missed an armed student while a man sat jailed despite data proving his innocence. The cheap-AI era ended before the expensive one proved itself. And the neighborhoods underneath the data centers organized. One throughline: the failures landed in the domains the pitch was most confident.
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Friday Roundup #13: AI Became an Authority Story
Pope Leo XIV issued an AI encyclical and put an Anthropic co-founder on the Vatican stage. Anthropic hit $47B run-rate while Apollo and Blackstone shopped $36B in chip debt. Korean unions bargained the AI windfall. Illinois passed a real law. Blue Origin's only pad exploded. The bill underneath the model story is now visible.
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Friday Roundup #12: The Week the Spreadsheet Pushed Back
Hackers poisoned open source at industrial scale. Office users won the right to delete the Copilot button. Irish Rail wrote down €50 million. Samsung chip workers walked away with $340,000 bonuses. And the clean-energy stories got refreshingly weird.
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Virginia's Data Center Bill Is Coming Due
Virginia's data-center fight has moved from zoning hearings to utility bills, tax policy, and state capacity. The rules need to be written before the next deal arrives.
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Friday Roundup #11: The Rules Move Underfoot
AI safety became a lobbying stack, agents moved into ordinary workflows, map fights turned into midterm operations, advanced air mobility hit the infrastructure spreadsheet, and dual-use systems kept collapsing civilian and military categories.
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Friday Roundup #10: The Machine Enters the Room
Anthropic became a Washington problem, Musk v. Altman became the AI industry's public deposition, backlash got institutional teeth, data centers became land-use politics, and Hormuz entered the grocery bill.
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NVIDIA Just Open-Sourced the Security Layer AI Agents Need
OpenShell is a sandboxed runtime that enforces security policies AI agents can't override — even if compromised. This changes the game for anyone deploying agents in production.
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Mining Intelligence
Bitcoin miners ran GPU rigs 24/7 to produce hashes. I run an AI rig 24/7 to produce structured knowledge. Same race, different game, better economics.
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Your Agents Need a Nervous System
We deployed a fleet message bus in 35 minutes. Here's how MQTT solves agent coordination without leaking context.