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Culture-Market Fit: On Drake, Audemars Piguet, and Memetic Virality
On May 14, 2026, Drake unveiled the cover art for ICEMAN: a rhinestone-encrusted glove throwing his signature “6.” Within 24 hours, it had become a marketing template for major brands, organic promotion that would have cost tens of millions in paid distribution. Two days later, Audemars Piguet, a 151-year-old Swiss watchmaker whose 1920s pocket watch… — read more
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We’ve Been Here Before
Midnight, early fifteenth century. A navigator sits in a portside tavern somewhere in the Mediterranean, reciting sea routes from memory. He knows the currents off the coast of Sicily. He can read the stars well enough to hold a bearing across open water. He learned all this the way his predecessors did: years at sea,… — read more
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Lobsters and Robots and Lawsuits, oh my!
So, What had happened was: things that caught my attention this week … KIMI K2.5 The biggest winner this week is the open-source community. Moonshot has released Kimi K2.5, an open-source model that, according to self-reported benchmarks, is right on the heels of GPT-5.2, Gemini 3 Pro, and Claude Opus across multilingual tasks, coding, and… — read more
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DALIA: The Fight Against AI Hallucinations
On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov, a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces, watched his computer screen glow with a terrifying warning: five American nuclear missiles were headed for the USSR. Humanity survived because Petrov famously reasoned that “when people start a war, they don’t start it with only five missiles.”, and he… — read more
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