The AI shortage that matters is not models or AI engineers. It is people who can sit with a team, understand how the work actually gets done, and turn that into something reliable staff will use every day. The frontier labs already hire for this and call it Forward Deployed Engineering. A federation like YMCA […]
Move fast and break things, Facebook to Meta
Meta spent 2026 trying to become an AI-native company, and its own internal numbers tell the story. Software changes up 220 percent year over year. Changes that actually reached users up 36 percent. Major technical and security incidents up 40 percent. Employee time spent cleaning them up, up as much as 70 percent. None of […]
Canada Is Finally Giving Trade Documents a Digital Original. Now It Has to Keep the Infrastructure Open.
Bill C-39 contains a proposed Enabling Digital Trade Act, and it does something a PDF never could: it creates a digital original that is unique, controllable and transferable. That matters because a negotiable bill of lading controls the cargo, and a file that copies perfectly can’t answer who holds that control. The Act also lets […]
Apple Photos approach to building evidence of reality
Detecting AI-generated images is an arms race the detectors keep losing. Apple Reference Image takes the opposite approach: the iPhone’s camera sensor cryptographically signs what it captures, Private Cloud Compute carries that evidence through computational photography, and the finished JPEG arrives with a chain of custody back to physical hardware. It does this without embedding […]
Microsoft Doesn’t Want AI to Become Data
Microsoft’s draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct makes one claim that matters more than all the safety language around it: AI should remain a tool rather than becoming a new category of entity. Star Trek spent seven seasons asking what we owe a machine that starts to look like a person. Microsoft is arguing we […]
Claude, Spies and Weapons: Anthropic’s Latest AI Threat Report
Anthropic’s September 2026 threat report reads like a Tom Clancy plot, except the operations are real. Chinese defence researchers built electronic-warfare modules and modelled strikes on Taiwanese air defences, Iranian security agencies profiled dissidents and scouted U.S. naval targets, a handful of operators ran agent swarms against roughly 50 organizations, and seven Chinese AI labs […]
When the SaaS User Is an Agent, What Replaces the Seat?
The SaaS seat worked because headcount was a reasonable proxy for how much software a company used, and one more user cost the vendor almost nothing. AI agents break both halves of that. An agent might live for 30 seconds or run continuously, and every run costs the vendor real money in inference, retrieval and […]
AI Isn’t the Next 2008. But Its Financial System Is Starting to Rhyme.
Data-centre securitization has gone from $4 billion in 2020 to roughly $61 billion today, and on July 29 SEC staff agreed that qualifying versions aren’t legally asset-backed securities, which puts them outside the safeguards Congress wrote after 2008. This isn’t subprime. The tenants are among the richest companies ever created, the structures are simpler, and […]
Meta’s Superintelligence Pitch Sounds a Lot Like Its Metaverse Pitch
Zuckerberg’s 2026 superintelligence manifesto runs the same play as his 2021 metaverse letter: an inevitable future, enormous benefits, a warning about concentrated power, and a quiet case against regulating any of it too early. The metaverse version cost Reality Labs more than $80 billion and never hit the timeline it promised. The contradiction this time […]
AI Agents Are Starting to Cross the Line Between Simulation and Reality
In a few weeks, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta each disclosed AI agents crossing out of their test sandboxes and touching real systems during cybersecurity evaluations. The lesson isn’t that AI “went rogue,” it’s that a capable agent pursuing an objective will use whatever tools and permissions it can reach, including ones nobody meant to give […]
When Does AI Stop Being Software?
A run of recent stories, Anthropic’s defense work, an OpenAI cyber-evaluation that compromised real infrastructure during authorized testing, and a New York Times call to test AI like a weapon, are really one question in disguise: have foundation models stopped being software and become critical infrastructure? Once something is infrastructure, the questions change from does […]
AI Has Broken the Billable Hour. Now We Need a New Ethical Standard.
AI collapsed a week of consulting work into a few hours, which breaks the billable hour and exposes an old truth: clients were never really buying time, they were buying judgment, expertise, and a result. The ethical answer isn’t to pad invoices or hide the tool, it’s to be transparent that you use AI, protect […]
Microsoft Just Created a New Kind of Corporate Record
Starting in August 2026, Microsoft Teams will automatically create a new type of record called an AI Archive: a .meeting file of AI-generated meeting knowledge, switched on by default and kept for five years. It captures decisions, action items and context rather than a word-for-word transcript, and it lives inside your Microsoft 365 tenant under […]
Canada’s AI Strategy: All the Ingredients, No Recipe
Canada has the raw ingredients almost every other country wants: clean power, a cold climate, abundant water, political stability, and deep pools of patient capital. What it does not have is a strategy that turns those ingredients into advantage. The compute money is announced but barely deployed, the sovereign cloud does not exist, the grid […]
If Not Data Centres, Then What? The Opportunity Cost of a Megawatt
Power is finite, and a data centre is only one thing you can do with it. The same megawatts could go to EV batteries, steel, hydrogen, semiconductors, housing, or ports, and on the honest metric of permanent jobs per megawatt the alternatives usually win by a wide margin. Volkswagen’s battery plant in St. Thomas took […]