Articles
August 29, 2024
The Chip Wars: Export Controls and the Geopolitics of Semiconductors
There is a war that is not fought with the armies, and the war is the chip: the semiconductor that has become the strategic territory.
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August 14, 2024
The Red Sea Lesson: Supply Chains in a Fractured World
There is a strait that carries the world's trade, and in 2024 the strait became the world's headache. The Red Sea crisis is the supply chain story of the year, and the story is the lesson about the world the chains live in.
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July 12, 2024
The On-Device AI Revolution: Intelligence Without the Cloud
There is a shift happening in the hardware, and the shift is the intelligence's move. In 2024 the intelligence is moving onto the device: the laptop with the neural processor, the phone with the on-device model.
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July 3, 2024
The Battery Boom: Why Storage Became the Grid's Secret Weapon
There is a technology that is quietly reshaping the electricity grid, and the technology is the battery: the grid's secret weapon in the fight against the intermittency.
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June 27, 2024
The AI Skill Premium: What the New Salary Data Shows
There is a premium that the salary data is revealing, and the premium is the AI skill: the pay boost that the workers with the AI capabilities are commanding.
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June 12, 2024
Skills Over Degrees: The Credential Shift That Changed Hiring
There is a quiet revolution in the hiring process, and the revolution is the degree's demotion. The employers are dropping the degree requirements, and the skills-based hiring is going mainstream.
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May 14, 2024
The Startup Winter: Building When the Money Is Cold
There is a season that the startup world has been living through for two years, and the season is the winter. The funding that flowed like the summer river has slowed to the winter stream, and the winter is the environment the founders must build in.
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May 2, 2024
The White-Collar Recession: When the Layoffs Hit the Office
There is a recession that the GDP does not show, and the recession is the white-collar: the layoffs that have been rolling through the knowledge economy.
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April 25, 2024
Llama 3 and the Open Source Charge: AI's Democratization Moment
There is a release that shook the AI world this month, and the release was the open weights: the new generation of the open source model family released to the world.
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April 12, 2024
The Copilot Generation: How AI Changed the Way We Code
There is a quiet revolution happening in the developer's editor, and the revolution is the autocomplete that does not stop. The code assistant has moved from the novelty to the default.
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