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The Watcher Is the Product
DeepSeek gave the agent harness away. OpenAI is taxing itself to watch its own. SpaceX paid $60 billion for one. All three just told you where the value…
Aug 20
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Julien Simon
The Model Is the Machine
AMD just bought a chip company whose product runs exactly one model. That is the point.
Aug 9
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Julien Simon
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From Google Brain to Google Drain
What six weeks of exits say about the model Google hasn’t shipped.
Aug 5
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Julien Simon
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You Have To Ask Me Nicely
OVH told Canada how to get the data it refused to hand over. On August 18, the European Union stops making the argument OVH is making in court.
Aug 4
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Julien Simon
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July 2026
Amazon Priced the Frontier and Declined It
On 30 June, AWS published two announcements pointing in opposite directions. In July, it closed its AGI Lab. All three were the same decision.
Jul 29
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Julien Simon
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The Model Is a Checkpoint
Washington spent last week letting it be known it might ban Chinese AI models, so this week, everyone is an open-models expert.
Jul 23
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Julien Simon
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Qwen 3.8: Soon Is Not a Date
Alibaba answers Moonshot's dated gap with an undated one
Jul 19
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Julien Simon
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Kimi K3 and the Checkpoint Gap
How to read a Chinese frontier launch in the eleven days before the weights ship
Jul 17
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Julien Simon
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The Backstop Has a Name Now - part 2
How Nvidia finances a cloud tells you what it thinks the cloud is worth. CoreWeave and Nebius got equity. Sharon AI got a revenue-share.
Jul 6
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Julien Simon
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The Backstop Has a Name Now - part 1
Nvidia is handing back tens of billions to shareholders. Now it’s offering to finance the customers who can’t afford its chips.
Jul 4
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Julien Simon
June 2026
The Models That Learned Physics
Generative AI isn’t just chatbots and code. The transformer architecture has quietly generalized far past language, and the next domain it’s reaching is…
Jun 30
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Julien Simon
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Too Dangerous for You, Free for Everyone
America locked up its best models. Europe regulates a frontier it can’t build. China gives its best to the world and is winning.
Jun 28
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Julien Simon
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