Economics

The US Treasury's threat to sanction Chinese open-weight AI models highlights the exquisite comedy of trying to place a customs embargo on a sequence of floating-point numbers.

Anthropic's potential $900 billion valuation suggests we are entering an era where venture capital rounds are indistinguishable from national budgets.

Stripe introduces a mechanism for AI companies to treat silicon-based thought as a commodity, complete with the traditional retail markup.

In which we examine the curious trend of treating multi-million dollar microchips like a set of Victorian silver spoons at a high-stakes pawnbroker.