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A quantum primer for people whose eyes glaze over 4 Bips
Forget the superposition metaphors. Here's what quantum actually breaks (and doesn't), told through a single example.
AI inference pricing is about to collapse again 4 Bips
The per-token curve is not slowing. A read on where the next floor lands and which incumbents survive it.
The economics of running an open-source project in 2026 4 Bips
Between burnout, funding drought, and supply-chain expectations, maintainers are quietly pricing their work differently.
The GPU shortage is real, but not where headlines say it is 4 Bips
Cloud-tier H100 waiting lists hide a more interesting story: small inference shops are getting served fastest.
Context window wars: 1M tokens matters less than you think 5 Bips
Every frontier lab has shipped or announced a million-token context. The useful capacity is a fraction of the stated number.
RAG vs fine-tuning: the decision collapsed to four questions 4 Bips
Two years ago this was a religious war. The cost curves moved, the tooling matured, and now the answer is almost mechanical.
Edge inference in 2026: the on-device model got good enough 4 Bips
Apple, Qualcomm, and the open-weight community have shipped enough capability that meaningful chunks of AI run on your phone.
The password is dying faster than expected 3 Bips
Passkeys crossed a visible adoption threshold this year. The remaining holdouts are specific and predictable.
Serverless in 2026: the honest cost curve 4 Bips
Eight years after the peak hype, serverless has settled into a predictable cost shape.