AI is Aggregating the Aggregators
The platforms that spent fifteen years aggregating demand are becoming someone else's supply base
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Nobody Pays Programmers for Code
Firms don't pay for skill. They pay for proximity to revenue, control, and liability. AI makes that mechanism visible — and widens the gap between those who specify systems and those who execute inside them.
Email Send Time Is a Distribution Problem
"Tuesday at 10 AM" isn't a strategy, it's an average. For anyone publishing across borders, languages, and time zones, a single best hour is a category error — the question is when your readers can do the work the email asks of them.
The Creativity Paradox Was a Decoy
We spent three years arguing about whether machines can create. In June a courtroom showed us we were arguing about the wrong thing entirely.
The Off-Switch Isn't Yours
A US order forced Anthropic to pull Fable 5 for everyone, three days after launch. An open-weights rival shipped a day later. If you build on US AI from outside the US, access just became political.
Deepfakes: The New Emergency Rewriting the Rules of Business
Synthetic meetings, phantom hires, new AI Act deadlines: what's changing for your company and what to do tomorrow.
The Algorithm Didn't Change
Traditional media controlled distribution. Creators controlled production. AI controls neither. So what's left?