Thoughts
On tech, AI, business, and what actually works.
June 27, 2026
How Google turned itself from a search company into an agentic-AI company across two keynotes — I/O 2025 and I/O 2026 — and what its agents, open protocols, and quadrillion-token scale mean for business decision-makers planning their own AI bets.
June 26, 2026
In late June 2026 the most capable AI models stopped being something you could simply buy. OpenAI began releasing GPT-5.6 only to a government-vetted list of partners, days after Washington suspended foreign access to Anthropic's top models. It isn't a kill switch — it's a permission layer, and it changes who controls the frontier.
June 26, 2026
At Göbekli Tepe and the cluster of "Stone Hills" sites in southeastern Turkey, hunter-gatherers raised the world's oldest monuments some 11,500 years ago — before farming, pottery, or the wheel. The discoveries overturned a century-old assumption that agriculture had to come first, and suggest civilization may have begun not with the plow, but with the temple.
June 26, 2026
How a failed phone call, five months of CIA spycraft, and two hours over Caracas ended Nicolas Maduro's presidency on Jan 3, 2026 - and why the cleanest operation in a generation left the messiest questions, from an unpublished death toll to a near-unanimous verdict that it broke international law.
June 24, 2026
SpaceX's $60 billion all-stock purchase of Cursor isn't a coding-tools story — it's Elon Musk buying the surface where software gets written, turning millions of developers' keystrokes into training fuel for his AI, and opening a second front against GitHub with a platform called Origin. What the largest startup acquisition in history means for the tools your business runs on.
June 24, 2026
The only force that ever durably crushed the world's largest heroin supply is the same movement that grew rich taxing it — and the Taliban have now done it twice. A four-decade history of Afghan opium, from the Soviet-era jihad to the 2022 ban and its fragile aftermath.
June 22, 2026
The protein-structure revolution that won AlphaFold a Nobel Prize has quietly split into three races — prediction, design, and medicine. A field guide to the top contenders (AlphaFold 3, Boltz, Chai, RFdiffusion, ESM3, Isomorphic Labs) and the one tension none of them has resolved: the benchmarks have never looked better, and not a single AI-designed drug has yet been approved.
June 20, 2026
In one week of June 2026, Anthropic quietly throttled its record-breaking Claude Fable 5 for AI researchers, then the U.S. Commerce Department forced Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline worldwide via an export-control letter. The episode proved a frontier AI model is a strategic asset that can be pulled away overnight — by its maker or by the state.
June 20, 2026
Vercel deleted roughly 80% of its internal AI agent's tools and it got faster, cheaper, and more accurate. The counterintuitive result explains why most business AI fails — and hands small and medium businesses a concrete playbook for landing in the 5% that actually works.