The next major AI shift is not a bigger model. It is where the model runs. Frontier capability is compressing fast enough that a MacBook Pro, Mac Studio, Copilot+ PC, or RTX workstation can already do real work offline, and the next wave is persistent on-device assistants that know you, internal company models that keep […]
App Releases Are Soaring, App Usage Is Flat. AI Just Hit Its Dot-Com Moment.
A new MIT and Wharton paper, Writing Code vs. Shipping Code, finds that agentic AI coding tools have driven a sharp jump in commits, projects, and app releases, but the gains shrink as work moves through delivery and iOS app usage has barely moved. It looks like a replay of the dot-com era. Producing software […]
AI-Powered Worms Are Coming: What CleverHans’s Research Means for Defenders
CleverHans’s prototype AI-powered worm replaces a hard-coded exploit with an autonomous agent that reasons about each target, finds an opening, and keeps moving, closer to an automated penetration tester than a traditional worm. NotPetya did billions of dollars in damage in 2017 without any of that intelligence; an objective-driven successor would be materially harder to […]
LinkedIn Just Created the Rotten Tomatoes of AI
LinkedIn’s Crosscheck is a crowdsourced AI leaderboard where professionals rate model responses, scored by industry, function, and seniority. Rotten Tomatoes for language models, with real career context attached to every rating. The interesting move isn’t the feature; it’s who is doing the ranking. Whoever owns the leaderboards may end up shaping AI adoption more than […]
Stop Treating AI Like an Employee: What the Meta Support Incident Teaches Us About AI Security
The Meta AI support incident isn’t really a story about insecure AI. It’s a story about teams putting AI inside the security boundary instead of in front of it. The fix is architectural: treat AI as an untrusted communication interface, and route every sensitive decision through a layered stack of verification, authorization, and execution systems […]
Microsoft’s AI Strategy Is Becoming Clear, And It’s Much Bigger Than Copilot
Microsoft’s Frontier announcements reveal a strategy much bigger than Copilot. Microsoft IQ stitches together Work IQ, Fabric IQ, and Foundry IQ into a permission-aware enterprise memory layer; Copilot Cowork turns Copilot from assistant into multi-step operator across Office; and Agent 365 wires governance into Entra, Purview, and Defender. The real bet is owning the full […]
The Best AI Subscription for Business in 2026
Frontier models have converged enough that leaderboard scores no longer settle the business AI subscription question. ChatGPT Plus is the strongest all-around platform today on breadth, tooling, and agent readiness. Claude has the best raw reasoning and writing but the worst token economics. Gemini Advanced wins on Google Workspace integration, Copilot Pro wins on Microsoft […]
Google Is Breaking the Internet
Google’s biggest Search change in 25 years quietly rewrites the economic contract of the web. AI Search no longer points users at sites, it absorbs them and answers in front of them, while pushing crawler load up and human visits down at the same time. Publishers lose pageviews, ad inventory, attribution, the reader relationship, and […]
AI Capex Is Becoming the New Arms Race
AI capex is starting to dwarf the rest of tech. SpaceX’s IPO disclosures suggest its AI infrastructure spending now exceeds its rocket spending, and the four U.S. hyperscalers are projected to spend roughly $725 billion on capex in 2026 alone. China is deploying tens of billions through industrial policy, the Middle East is funding sovereign […]
AI Leadership Increasingly Depends on Physical Infrastructure Control
AI leadership is shifting from a software contest to an infrastructure contest. SpaceX’s IPO filings describe a vertically integrated AI platform of launches, satellites, Starlink connectivity, compute, and even orbital data centres, a signal that energy, GPUs, connectivity, manufacturing, and distribution are becoming the real competitive moats. For countries like Canada, that means sovereign compute, […]
Robots.txt Was Built on Trust. AI Agents Are About to Break That.
The web was built on a quiet handshake: robots.txt, a voluntary 1990s text file asking crawlers to behave, and for decades the biggest search engines listened. That low-friction trust let the open web scale. Agentic AI breaks the assumption because AI agents are built to finish tasks, not just index pages, and many will ignore […]
The Future of Email May Be More Email
For two decades, email advice has been about reducing volume. AI flips that. The real problem was never volume, it was signal detection, and modern AI can summarize threads, surface stalled approvals, extract action items, and quietly handle the mundane processing humans were never good at. When the cost of processing communication drops, behaviour changes. […]
When AI Can Rebuild Your Platform: Cloudflare, vinext, and the New Importance of Open Source Tests
Cloudflare’s experimental vinext project rebuilt much of the Next.js developer experience on Vite, Workers, and React Server Components in roughly a week, largely by porting the Next.js open source test suite and using it as the behavioral spec. That shifts the role of tests entirely. For AI coding agents, a mature test suite is executable […]
Ontario’s AI Audit Is a Wake-Up Call for Businesses, and a Huge Opportunity
The Ontario Auditor General’s AI report is not a warning against adoption. It is confirmation that AI has moved past experimentation and into operational infrastructure. The audit surfaces fragmented governance, inconsistent oversight, no clear inventory of where AI is in use, and procurement processes that have not caught up. These are the same issues showing […]
Apple’s AI Strategy May Be Simpler Than We Think
Apple does not have a frontier model, and most coverage stops there. The more interesting story is that Apple Silicon was quietly engineered for the kind of computing modern AI inference actually needs. Unified memory, high bandwidth, low power, and tight hardware/software integration make Mac Minis surprisingly capable AI appliances, especially for local agents, RAG […]