Lately, a number of companies have been citing AI productivity gains as the reason to let senior people go, replacing them with younger, cheaper hires, sometimes three for one. I’ve watched it happen to people…
April 17, 2026 The defense AI market is consolidating and fragmenting simultaneously. The standard explanation treats the pattern as a contradiction requiring resolution. The application layer compresses as platform players acquire their way toward vertical…
March 30, 2026 Palantir Technologies’ CTO Shyam Sankar’s Mobilize: How to Reboot the American Industrial Base and Stop World War III is, on its surface, a book about defense procurement, about the slow death of…
March 27, 2026 Secure RAG Groundwork Amine Raji published two articles this month constituting a very thorough treatment of RAG knowledge base poisoning. The first article, RAG Poisoning: How Attackers Corrupt Your AI’s Knowledge Bases,…
Part II of the SymWisdom series. Part I: “Nobody Taught It to Look.” Where We Left Off Part I described a neuromorphic hive mind system that builds its own ontology from continuous perception. Ten BrainChip…
Intellectual Context A team from Palantir Technologies and MIT published a paper in 2023 called Concept-Centric Software Development that formalized an observation most experienced developers already share. The concepts underlying a software system, the functional…
Last week I posted about a targeting system built in five days on IBM Spectrum Symphony, BrainChip’s Akida, and Palantir’s Foundry. The response was significant enough to warrant a deeper argument, one that goes beyond…
A recent essay in Comment magazine asks a question worth taking seriously: “What is the University For?” The author is a philosopher at Notre Dame who directs the university’s ethics initiative. The essay argues that…
Yesterday I posted about building a targeting system in five days with IBM Spectrum Symphony,BrainChip Akida, and Palantir Technologies AIP Foundry. Here is the architecture, how each layer works, what connects them, how data stays…
On February 26, Anthropic’s CEO published a statement refusing to remove safety guardrails from Claude at the Pentagon’s demand. The Department of War wanted unrestricted use of course and Anthropic said no, willing to lose…