Ben

Ben

Oct
15
Sora: The Beginning of OpenAI’s Attention Economy

Sora: The Beginning of OpenAI’s Attention Economy

For most of its life, OpenAI shaped culture without ever entering it. It built the engines of intelligence but stayed
5 min read
Oct
13
Wall Street Catches the OpenAI Fever: Trading the Name, Not the Numbers

Wall Street Catches the OpenAI Fever: Trading the Name, Not the Numbers

On Wall Street, an algorithm once referred to lines of code, quiet formulas buried inside servers that calculated risk and
6 min read
Oct
13
Figure 03 and the Factory That Builds Dreams

Figure 03 and the Factory That Builds Dreams

The robots are coming. They just keep stopping at the lab door.
4 min read
Oct
09
Copilot Trap: a16z’s Bank Statement Exposes the Real AI Economy

Copilot Trap: a16z’s Bank Statement Exposes the Real AI Economy

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has just turned startup banking data into a mirror of the AI economy. Working with Mercury, which
4 min read
Oct
09
The Company That IPO’d With Nothing and Won Everything

The Company That IPO’d With Nothing and Won Everything

Fermi does not sell power yet. It sells the idea of owning the grid.
4 min read
Oct
08
Citi’s Massive Upload: Teaching 175,000 Employees to Talk AI

Citi’s Massive Upload: Teaching 175,000 Employees to Talk AI

One hundred seventy-five thousand Citi employees across eighty countries are learning a new language. It is not Python, and it
5 min read
Oct
06
Anthropic Didn’t Launch a Chatbot, It Launched an Employee

Anthropic Didn’t Launch a Chatbot, It Launched an Employee

Claude Sonnet 4.5 coded for thirty hours without a break, and it’s just getting started.
4 min read
Oct
06
Transparency Is Now the Entry Fee for AI Giants

Transparency Is Now the Entry Fee for AI Giants

California’s SB 53 forces giants into the open.
5 min read
Oct
02
When ARR Becomes Theater, Anything Can Happen

When ARR Becomes Theater, Anything Can Happen

The two-week 2M ARR story was more stagecraft than growth
4 min read
Oct
02
The Fertility Crisis Finds Its Weirdest Startup Yet

The Fertility Crisis Finds Its Weirdest Startup Yet

The world is running out of babies. Fertility rates are collapsing from Seoul to San Francisco, and policymakers are quietly
5 min read