Topic
energy
3 essays follow this thread across the codex.
- 01 Artificial Intelligence · July 2026 · 15 min
The Mind That Asks for Almost Nothing
Every question you put to a machine is answered a thousand kilometres away, in a hall that drinks power and water from a country already short of both. There is another way to build this—smaller, local, and yours—and India, of all places, has the most reason to build it first.
- 02 Technology · July 2026 · 10 min
July 2026: The Month Intelligence Got Cheap
Six frontier minds arrived in a single fortnight, one of them free to download and nearly the best on Earth. So the money did the only thing left to do—it stopped chasing the model and went hunting for the silicon, the power, and the permission to buy them.
- 03 Technology · June 2026 · 12 min
Several Exponential Curves Are Crossing at Once
In a single recent stretch, an AI won a Nobel for protein folding, a CRISPR drug saved a baby with a one-of-a-kind disease, and the price of storing an hour of sunshine fell to a record low. These are not separate stories. They are one wave, and we are standing in it.