March 2026

The “Data Center Rebellion” Is Here

This post first appeared on Ben Lorica’s Gradient FlowSubstack newsletter and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Even the most ardent cheerleaders for artificial intelligence now quietly concede…

New Kinds of Applications

I’ve said in the past that AI will enable new kinds of applications—but I’ve never had the imagination to guess what those new applications would be. I don’t want a…

Fast Paths and Slow Paths

Autonomous AI systems force architects into an uncomfortable question that cannot be avoided much longer: Does every decision need to be governed synchronously to be safe? At first glance, the…