Desk II

Technology

The Technology desk covers the infrastructure layer of the modern economy — compute, models, chips, and platforms — with an eye for the trade-offs the launch copy leaves out.

Analysis

The Compute Bill Comes Due

The AI build-out has been financed as if compute were a fixed asset that lasts forever. Depreciation schedules suggest otherwise.

TechnologyPriya Nadkarni5 min

Analysis

The Model Is Not the Moat

Frontier models are converging in capability and diverging in price toward zero. Defensibility has quietly moved somewhere else.

TechnologyPriya Nadkarni5 min

Analysis

Silicon's Slow Fracture

The chip supply chain is not decoupling so much as duplicating — at enormous cost, and with no guarantee the copies will ever run at scale.

TechnologyTheo Brandt6 min