In my recent piece on sovereign AI and the geopolitics of compute, I covered export controls, national chip programs, and the fracturing of the global AI hardware stack. That’s the …
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The Second-Hand GPU Market: What Happens When H100s Get Decommissioned?
Every GPU procurement conversation in AI infrastructure focuses on acquisition — allocation, lead times, pricing on the newest generation. Almost none of it touches the other end of the asset …
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Agentic AIAIAI Data CenterAI FactoryAI InfrastructureOpinion
AI Agents and Liability: Who’s Responsible When an Autonomous Workflow Fails?
Agentic AI adoption has outpaced the legal and governance frameworks that determine who bears responsibility when an autonomous workflow makes a costly mistake. A traditional software bug has a fairly …
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Model Routing Economics: Why Enterprises Are Quietly Building Multi-LLM Gateways
The single-model enterprise AI strategy — standardize on one provider, integrate deeply, move on — is quietly giving way to something more fragmented and, for most CIOs, more sensible: a …
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Agentic AIAIBankingFinTechOpinion
AI in Core Banking: Why Agentic Workflows Are Hitting a Compliance Wall
Agentic AI has moved fast in customer support, software engineering, back-office document processing. Core banking is a different story. The same autonomous, multi-step, tool-calling agent architecture transforming other industries is …
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Neoclouds vs. Hyperscalers: Who Wins the GPU Rental Wars?
A new category of cloud provider has emerged specifically to rent GPU capacity: CoreWeave, Lambda, Crusoe, Together AI, and a growing list of “neoclouds” that do one thing — acquire …
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The Water Problem: AI Data Centers and the Coming Fight Over Cooling Resources
Power gets the headlines. Water is the quieter constraint starting to generate something power scarcity hasn’t produced yet at scale: organized local opposition. AI data centers, especially liquid-cooled high-density facilities, …
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Stranded Power: Why Utilities, Not GPUs, Are the Real AI Bottleneck in 2026
The AI capacity conversation has spent two years fixated on chip allocation — who can get NVIDIA’s next generation first, who’s secured supply from TSMC. That conversation is starting to …
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The Agentic AI Tax: Why Your Token Budget Is About to Explode
Every CFO who approved an AI budget based on 2024 pricing models is about to have an uncomfortable conversation. The problem is not that token prices have risen — they …
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OpenAI, Anthropic, and the $121 Billion Question: Can AI’s Biggest Labs Outgrow Their Compute Bills?
In my recent trilogy analyzing AI market concentration — “Is There An AI Concentration Crisis: When 42 Stocks Become the Entire Market,” “Why Enterprise AI Strategy Must Diverge From Hyperscaler …
