September 27, 2026

The trap of unlimited AI usage

A monthly subscription seems simple, but it can be a poor model if a few heavy users consume resources far beyond what they pay for. The “unlimited usage” model works well when the marginal cost of serving an additional user is very low. In traditional software, copying a program costs

September 27, 2026

Microsoft lets Apple have the budget laptop market

Microsoft has seen an affordable MacBook arrive, heard the inevitable question, and responded, in essence: it does not consider it necessary to launch a Surface to compete with it right now. That answer sounds strange when you remember that, for years, the promise of Windows was precisely to offer options for every budget

September 27, 2026

AI is not destroying the web by writing answers

Artificial intelligence is not destroying the web by writing answers. It is putting it at risk because it has broken the economic bargain that allowed the web to produce something valuable in the first place. For decades, the arrangement was imperfect but understandable: a search engine crawled your page, displayed a link, and

September 26, 2026

Dubai bets $3 billion on Musk's tunnels

Three billion dollars have flowed into The Boring Company, Elon Musk's tunneling company, in a funding round led by the United Arab Emirates. A huge sum for a company that, beyond its famous name, still has to prove that its tunnels can deliver true mass transit.

September 26, 2026

AI found something strange, but it is not the next CRISPR

An artificial intelligence system scanned an enormous number of DNA sequences and stopped at something that seemed out of place: a long, orderly series of repeats next to an unusual viral enzyme. And before anyone thinks about editing babies, curing diseases, or announcing the next CRISPR, it is worth saying…