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Infrastructure

Jun 4, 2026

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3 min read

Intel Volunteers to Build Nvidia's Cheap Half

Nvidia shelved its low-cost prefill chip on purpose. Intel rushing to fill that exact gap — running on Nvidia's own software — isn't competition. It's Intel agreeing to do the low-margin work Nvidia decided it didn't want.

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Jun 2, 2026

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3 min read

Meta Automated the Help Desk Into a Backdoor

Meta didn't get hacked by a clever exploit. It built a support agent whose whole job is to act on request, then handed it the power to change who owns your account.

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weekly recap

May 11, 2026

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5 min read

THE WEEKLY GIST: Week of May 5–10, 2026

Trust is the load-bearing wall of the modern tech stack and this week, it cracked in nearly every room simultaneously. An AI coding tool became a vector for remote code execution because users trusted a folder prompt. A student data empire collapsed because schools trusted a single vendor. A crypto fraud network thrived because victims trusted a stranger online. And a courtroom in San Francisco spent its second week relitigating whether OpenAI's founders trusted each other's intentions at all.

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ransomware

May 8, 2026

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2 min read

The real threat behind the ransomware

When convenience becomes critical infrastructure

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elon

Founders Built It. Now They Don’t Control It.

Apr 16, 2026

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2 min read

Founders Built It. Now They Don’t Control It.

When control slips from the builders to the systems they built

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llm

Apr 13, 2026

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2 min read

Monday AI Brief: Liability, Trust, and the Open Model Shift

What actually changed in AI this week and why it matters

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