Apple v. OpenAI, a $5 Million Frontier Model, and the Spy in Your Repo
Trade secrets walk out in people. They distill out through APIs. They upload out of your own dev tools. The last thing you own is your judgment, and everyone is collecting it.
Harry DeMott · Jul 14, 2026 · 13 min read
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The Real Cost of the AI Data Center Boom
Four Companies Are Spending $700 Billion This Year on AI Infrastructure — More Than the Entire Economy of...
The Man Behind the Curtain
Everyone's staring at the frontier model like it's the great and terrible Oz. The power was never the booming head — it's the man working the levers. This week, a number pulled back the curtain.
Ford v Ferrari
Eighty-six cents of every venture dollar this year bought the fastest car on the grid. Ferrari won Silverstone on Sunday and it's still a $68 billion company. Nobody wins Le Mans with the qualifying lap.
Ghost in the Machine
Anthropic just found that ghost inside Claude. Last night, Claude Fable 5 refused a job I never asked it to judge. The machine you can finally read is the one you still can't predict so stop asking it to be consistent and hard-wire the steps that can't afford an opinion.
The Wolf
The AI labs just spent $10 billion hiring ten thousand of him, because the one thing they can't rent is a way into your building.
Palantir’s Alex Karp Just Called the AI Industry “Effing Insane” Here’s What He’s Really Selling You
Alex Karp Just Told You Not To Trust Your AI Vendor. He’s Also Selling You the Fix. Palantir’s...
