Your Saturday briefing on the week that shaped technology

This week brought seismic shifts in AI leadership, record-breaking infrastructure deals, and a funding environment that continues defying gravity. From Meta’s internal shake-up to Microsoft’s European expansion, the week of November 9–15, 2025 delivered a clear message: as AI transitions from research curiosity to industrial necessity, the

Networks fall into three tiers based on a simple question: Can they reach the entire internet without paying anyone?

The telecom giant claims its exit from public internet exchanges will give customers "lower latencies." Is putting in the middleman (inter.link) achieving this? After some consideration, that might actually work.

Your Saturday briefing on the week that shaped technology

Your Saturday briefing on the week that shaped technology

Welfare programs weren't designed to end capitalism—they were created to save it. From Bismarck's 1880s social insurance to Silicon Valley's UBI experiments, the welfare state solves capitalism's demand paradox: maintaining purchasing power when automation concentrates wealth at the top.

DeepMind just won the Nobel Prize for solving protein folding with AlphaFold. More interesting: they gave away 214 million protein structures for free, then turned around and signed $3 billion in pharma deals. Here's how the technical breakthrough works, why the business model is genius, and what opportunities

The world is building datacenters at a pace that makes the 1990s internet boom look quaint. By 2030, the industry will have invested $7 trillion globally in what amounts to the largest infrastructure buildout in human history. This isn't just growth—it's a fundamental rewiring of

In a dramatic turn of events, the popular social media app TikTok has been at the center of a tumultuous legal and political battle in the United States. The situation remains fluid, with recent developments creating a whirlwind of activity and speculation. The Ban and Its Immediate Impact On January