Your Moat Can’t Be a Prompt: Lessons From Recent Startup Shutdowns
What Changed and Why It Matters A pattern is emerging across 2024–2025: AI startups with slick demos are shutting down, and the post-mortems point to the same root cause —…
AI takes aim at mainframes: inside the COBOL modernization wave
What Changed and Why It Matters Mainframes still run the world’s most critical transactions. Much of that logic lives in COBOL written decades ago. The people who wrote it are…
Inside the $1B Race to Scale Spatial AI: World Labs, Autodesk, Nvidia
What Changed and Why It Matters A new AI frontier is getting funded at LLM-scale: spatial intelligence. World Labs—founded by Fei-Fei Li—has reportedly raised $1B to build “world models,” with…