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The Quiet Lock Behind Android’s Open Door
Google complied with a court order to open Android—but built new gatekeeping into the infrastructure. Starting 2026, developers need Google verification and a $25 fee to publish to 95% of Android devices. The ecosystem got more controlled, not less. This new quiet lock just looks like security.
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The Real AI Race Isn’t What You Think
The frontier AI labs are hemorrhaging talent, burning billions on circular financing, and watching their supposed moats evaporate as DeepSeek replicates their reasoning models with open methods. The real competitive advantage isn’t the biggest model, it’s building systems that survive when your vendor doesn’t.
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What $18 Billion in AI Revenue Obscures About Technical Capability
AI-first companies crossed $18.5 billion in annual revenue while enterprise adoption jumped from 5% to 43.8%, yet research shows reasoning improvements fall within baseline variance. Adding distractions like “cats sleep most of their lives” increases error rates up to 7x. Commercial momentum masks the gap between what AI demonstrates impressively and what it delivers reliably.
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OpenAI is Not the Future of Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI burned $5 billion in 2024 while losing money on every query processed. Their leadership crisis drove away half the original GPT team, and their o3 model costs over $1,000 per query. Here’s why this trajectory threatens the innovation we need: sustainable AI progress requires distributed development, not monopolistic extraction.
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LinkedIn Is Failing the Professionals Who Made It Successful
I’ve noticed something troubling about LinkedIn’s evolution under Microsoft. The platform professionals trust for career development has quietly accumulated $335M+ in fines while admitting it can’t protect your data from systematic harvesting. Here’s what the evidence reveals about the hidden risks threatening your professional network.
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Why Your Competitors’ AI Success Isn’t What You Think
Your competitors aren’t winning with better AI tools—they’ve cracked something else entirely. My analysis of thriving SMBs reveals 91% achieve growth through a hidden factor most miss: the Implementation Gap. Discover why identical chatbots yield $50K opportunities for some, stagnation for others.