Massive Layoffs, Meta Surveillance, DeepSeek-V4 in AI News • Is Meta's MCI mandatory data harvesting for training the next AI on their work going to be the new normal now? 🤔 Sounds sinister.

Why Cursor is the Enterprise AI Darkhorse of Generative AI • Cursor partners with SpaceX and could get acquired. The future of the AI-agent interface is being built right now. 🤖

Summary of the AI Index Report 2026 • If you like AI and infographics, this is one of the best. Includes a lot of my own commentary, insights and additional infographics.

What if World Models and Quantum Computing complemented LLMs? • The race to a unified AI of everything.

What Amazon's Shareholder Letter Says about the Future of American AI • Is the SaaS apocalypse threatening some of the quintessential American tech companies? Is their radically accelerating Capex justified?

The Biggest AI-as-a-Service Company in History • A directory of some weekend reading about Claude AI products and Anthropic. Links to the best and most unique guides and POV op-eds I could find.

SpaceX’s AI Endgame: Owning the Infrastructure Layer of Intelligence • SpaceX IPO, TeraFab, Orbital compute, Elon Musk's promises have only just begun. Tesla to merge in 2027.

How to Use Perplexity Computer as a Second Brain • Was 2026 the year Autonomous AI became virtual coworkers? Is this what the vibe-working era looks like. How memory, Spaces, and connectors compare to Claude, Notion AI, and multi-tool setups.

The Geopolitical Chokepoints of Artificial Intelligence • A guest post by Julian Alexander Brown. Helium, DRAM, HBM and the finite AI race.

The Problem with AI Anxiety in 2026 • It's only going to get worse. Labor market, Iran war, Trump, Oligarchs, Autonomous agents, costly AI weapons, Ban-AI 2028 movement.

Using NotebookLM with Gemini • Google Maps update, NotebookLM Video Overviews. Tricks to using NotebookLM with Gemini. Compilation of NotebookLM guides and how-tos. Chatbot traffic upload.

Cursor's Wild Trajectory to being a Vibe Working Leader • Vibe Working: How AI Plugins Across Cursor, Claude Code & Cowork Are Changing How We Work. Why Cursor is destined to lead Enterprise AI.

Ambient Computing via Voice AI is about to Enter its Golden Age in 2027 • Genspark Workspace 2.0: What’s The Big Idea? Daniel Nest explores. OpenAI losing marketshare.

What is Advanced Machine Intelligence or AMI Labs? • The Biggest European AI Startup just came out of Stealth.

The U.S. Labor Market and its AI problem • Will what worked for AI coding be able to scale to Finance, Law and other knowledge work professions?

What Rivian's AI & Autonomy Growth Signals • The smart car era is finally starting to manifest. Rivian's AI and autonomy pivot impresses me.

Citadel's 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis Response to Citrini Research • I can't stop thinking about the Citrini Research piece, and not in a good way.

Trump Bans Anthropic, Pentagon in disarray over AI and The Datacenter Frenzy • Catching up on some of the AI news. Rise of Cursor plugins for non-engineers. Block's 40% layoffs. Anthropic's two red lines.

The Case for Dystopian AI • From Citrini to jobs exposed to AI. What if the promise of AI turns into something destabilizing and profoundly unfair. Are we missing some of the biggest risks of AI getting too close to home?

Quantum Computing will Augment Artificial Intelligence • New computing paradigms are likely to boost AI. Quantum computing could have an important next five years. I expect it to become much more relevant sometime in the 2028 to 2035 window.

Anthropic vs. OpenAI, the Pre IPO Days • The last few months before lucrative AI IPOs are upon on. Let's do some math. Decoding the crazy high valuations.

How to Use NotebookLM with Gemini: A Practical Guide with 30 Use Cases • Google connected Gemini to NotebookLM. Here are 30 use cases across work, learning, personal projects, and creative work — with video walkthroughs and a downloadable guide.

DeepSeek’s Next Move: What V4 Will Look Like 👀 • China's open-source AI momentum will push the frontier in 2026 and 2027.

Run Language Models on Your Computer with LM-Studio • A practical guide to running local models and picking the right one for speed or accuracy.

Why Scaling AI is Underestimated ⚡ • The future of energy needs a re-think to scale AI indefinitely. Orbital datacenters are part of that future solution. So are solar arrayed power in space infrastructure & lunar manufacturing. 🌌

The AI Coding Supremacy wars • Vibe working, Enterprise AI Coworkers, the Frontier Keeps evolving. Capex pushes the Enterprise AI landscape into more real-world trials as the SaaSpocalypse fears collide.

Japan's National Chip Startup Races to 2nm Mass Production • Rapidus: Japan’s Leading Edge Semiconductor Manufacturing Hopium

What is OpenClaw? 🦀 • A viral open-source project in early 2026.

Why AI is going to Space 🚀 • The physical AI era has characteristics of solar system expansionism. 🌌

AI Adoption tells Two separate Stories • Real world lag in AI adoption is worse than BigTech wants you to know. Are Vertical AI apps the solution?

How to Use NotebookLM with Claude Code • From Beginner to Advanced 🎓📚💡

OpenAI is about to face Real Competition • Cash burn and concerns over product execution mount regarding maker of ChatGPT

The Internet is Turning Against OpenAI • Is Sam Altman familiar with the valley of death? 💀

Cowork, Personal Intelligence, Ads in ChatGPT and the Great Beyond • A Deep Dive into Claude Code with context. Its growth trajectory is widely cited as one of the fastest in the history of developer tools, and now it's about to grow in Enterprise domains globally. 🌍

AI Trends: 2025 Lookback and 2026 Outlook • AI crosses the chasm

Three Centuries of the Future on Margin • Part II of Howe Wang's series on the History of bubbles continues today for easy reading and listening.

Generative AI might be Hurting the Labor Market • Time to start worrying about the U.S. Economy.

Vibe coding a mobile app with Claude Opus 4.5 • How will no-code building evolve as AI coding keeps improving?

The Agent Protocol Handbook • Navigating the New Era of Agentic AI Standards 📚⚙️✨

The 5 Claude Skills Every Digital Product Creator Needs • Why your digital products take 10x longer than they should, by Sharyph.

How the AI ‘bubble’ compares to history 🏛️ • The Future on Margin (Part I) by Howe Wang. How three centuries of booms were built on credit, and how they break

2025 Recap: The Year the Old Rules Broke • DeepSeek broke the scaling thesis. Anthropic won coding. China dominated open source. Everything that mattered—and what comes next.

Key Milestones of China in AI of 2025 • 📖 Top 10 China AI Stories in 2025: A Year-End Review 🐣

The OpenAI Bubble Increases in 2026 • An IPO frenzy, datacenter boom and an AI bull market creates an M&A environment with rapid consolidation to kickstart a Machine Economy era boom in 2026, that can last for years.

Was 2025 the year of the Datacenter? • Higher electricity bills, noise, health risks and "Generative deskilling" are coming. We'll also reach more absurd levels of capital allocation, concentration risk and nefarious lack of transparency.

How to get into AI for Non-Technical Late Bloomers: A Beginner's Guide • The ultimate starting point. 🎄🌸🐢 - for anyone who wants AI to feel less confusing and more like something they can use in real life.

An AI Overview 2025 (by the numbers) • What AI reports are saying and where I agree and disagree. Do American teens really use AI chatbots? Not as much as you might think. Rise of Anthropic in Enterprise AI in Infographics. 📊

Genspark Is a Unicorn Now. Let’s Get up to Speed • Goal: Freeing Knowledge workers from repetitive tasks. So how are they doing two years later?

Why 2026 Is the best time (ever) to become an AI solo-founder • And how to do it without a team, funding, or code.

OpenAI's Code Red • What are the rising AI chips? China's plan vs. Nvidia starts to take shape. 🚨