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Is GenAI just a Crutch or now an Adaptive Solution?

Our mental preconception of Artificial General Intelligence (#AGI) grabs our human-scale attention by the neurons and just yanks on it, promising a shiny science fiction future with smart robots, the end of manual labor and solutions to every problem. Of …

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Yee Ha! Building Your Stable of AI Agents

Today I found and used an AI Agent based service that vastly exceeded my expectations! But my key takeaway wasn’t about the value of this particular service, it was about the number of virtual tokens it used (the apps own …

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Top 5 Trends in Cybersecurity – Notes from RSAC 2025

Wow! We got to interview and record quick takes with over 40+ RSAC 2025 vendors – most right on the show floor at Moscone (in S.F.) with over 41k fellow attendees. If you want a 3hr short-course video education on …

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Don’t Mention The War! A Great Utility Computing Deception

Let’s talk about something usually considered both certain and ubiquitous1. No, you fellow cynics, the answer here is not “war”, although we will predict a market war part by the end of this article. Our topic today is …

Calling Bullshit on Hockey Stick Forecasts

Ever see an otherwise well-regarded industry analyst firm post a market forecast with an exciting hockey stick curve? These charts scream “Unlimited, exponential growth is just ahead! This is it, this is the market we should all invest in now!”…

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AI Learns to Think Fast: DeepSeek Running for the Masses

The currently over-hyped GenAI hysteria backed by bloated AI infrastructure implementations will predictably cause big problems:

  1. Massive 100+ billion node models use a boatload of power for both training and inference. MS and Amazon (et.al.) all publicly want to build