Peter Lake departs the White House energy council, leaving his transformational infrastructure vision behind—like all the others.
Read full article →The administration has discovered that intellectual property protection works best when applied selectively to enemies.
Read full article →Federal Reserve chair masters the art of semantic distinction to avoid admitting obvious economic truths.
Read full article →Investors suddenly discover that commoditization is bad when it happens to their portfolio.
Read full article →SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 launch is really just Cursor with a new logo and a press release.
Read full article →Ornn's founders have discovered that the solution to AI infrastructure fragmentation is apparently more financial engineering.
Read full article →Sound Ventures' concentrated bet strategy gives way to the graveyard of failed energy and infrastructure plays.
Read full article →Markets have replaced price discovery with Kevin Warsh fan fiction.
Read full article →The search giant races to build AI infrastructure while its environmental footprint hits record highs—a masterclass in having your carbon cake and eating it too.
Read full article →Apple and Microsoft are raising hardware prices because training AI models is apparently someone else's problem to solve.
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