In Focus: The Data Center Backlash Becomes an Election Issue

Information in this post reflects publicly available sources as of August 19, 2026. A party asks an industry for a favor Political parties usually tell industries what to do. This week the direction reversed. On August 18 the National Republican Senatorial Committee sent a private memo, headlined around Ohio data center risk, to leading AI companies. Axios obtained it and published the following day. The memo argues that Democrats have made data ce… Read More

In Focus: The AI Case for Enterprise Architecture

Information in this post reflects publicly available sources as of July 12, 2026. For most of the last decade, the received wisdom about enterprise architecture was that it was in decline. Cloud dissolved its authority, agile teams routed around it, and "we don't do EA here" became a mild boast at engineering conferences. Then, over roughly the past eighteen months, the message inverted. EA is now being described across the industry… Read More

In Focus: AI-DLC

Information in this post reflects publicly available sources as of June 30, 2026. A solutions architect stands in front of a room at re:Invent and says six engineers rebuilt a core piece of Amazon infrastructure in 76 days. The original estimate was 40 engineers and a full year. The slide stays up just long enough for the number to land, and then comes the methodology that supposedly made it possible. That methodology is AI-DLC , and the numbers at… Read More

In Focus: OpenAI Daybreak

Information in this post reflects publicly available sources as of June 29, 2026. You merge a pull request on a Friday afternoon. It passes review, passes CI, and ships. Three weeks later a security researcher emails to say that exact change introduced a use-after-free that lets an unprivileged user escalate to root. The patch was a two-line diff. Finding it required reading half a million lines of kernel code with the right question in mind. For … Read More

In Focus: The Lean AI Firm

Information in this post reflects publicly available sources as of June 22, 2026. A code editor called Cursor reportedly crossed two billion dollars in annual recurring revenue this year. The team behind it is somewhere around fifty people. That works out to roughly forty million dollars of revenue for every person on the payroll, a figure that simply did not exist in software before the last couple of years. Cursor is not a fluke. Midjourney is r… Read More

In Focus: Microsoft's Majorana 2

Information in this post reflects publicly available sources as of June 16, 2026. On June 2, at the close of its Build 2026 conference, Microsoft held up a small gold-and-blue chip and made a claim that would be hard to overstate. Its quantum bits, the company said, had become 1,000 times more reliable than the previous generation. One Microsoft technical fellow put it plainly from the stage: "We're 1,000 times better." The room und… Read More

In Focus: Siri AI

Information in this post reflects publicly available sources as of June 10, 2026. For years, the running joke about Siri was that it could not reliably set a timer without mishearing you. While OpenAI shipped ChatGPT to 900 million weekly users and Google folded Gemini into every Android surface, Siri answered questions about the weather and occasionally called the wrong contact. The gap between what Apple's assistant could do and what the co… Read More