Beyond the Screen: The Resurgence of Extreme Hardware and Embodied AI

For nearly a decade, Silicon Valley's mantra has been clear: dematerialize everything. Transform atoms into bits. Move fast and break things, but preferably break them in code where the damage is reversible. This philosophy gave us streaming services, cloud computing, and mobile apps that transformed how we communicate,…

How AI Just Solved Education's Oldest Problem

Every teacher knows this moment: A student struggling with Newton's laws while their classmate breezes through. The traditional response? "Read it again." But what if the problem isn't the student's effort, it's that the textbook speaks only one language when…

The Day AI Agents Got a Credit Card: Why AP2 Changes Everything

Last week, during a conversation with a CTO friend in Berlin, he casually mentioned his AI assistant had just negotiated a 30% discount on their cloud infrastructure bill. Not him, his AI agent. It analyzed usage patterns, benchmarked pricing across providers, drafted the negotiation email, handled three rounds of back-and-forth,…

Read to Forget: The Art of Selective Information Consumption

We’ve all seen it. Maybe it was a university colleague whose textbook looked more yellow than white, nearly every paragraph aggressively highlighted. Or perhaps it was the person in the quarterly briefing, furiously typing notes, attempting to transcribe an 80-slide deck word for word. For a long time, I…

Robo taxis are coming

During a family trip in San Francisco, I experienced a paradigm shift not in the cloud, but on the asphalt. It was a visceral lesson that the future often arrives not with a grand announcement, but with a quiet, electric hum as it pulls up to the curb. The day…