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Google I/O 2026 turned a model launch into a platform statement. It was the clearest evidence yet that Google wants Gemini to become the operating layer for work across consumer products, developer tools, enterprise systems, and cloud-managed agents. Gemini 3.5 Flash is the center of that story. Goo
Read the report →Google’s Android Show was more important than a pre-I/O feature preview. It was the clearest evidence yet that Google’s decision to give Android its own stage is the right one. Google started carving Android out this way last year, and this year’s show made the case for continuing that separation mu
Read the report →Google announced Googlebook today, and the most useful sentence in the entire post is one Alex Kuscher slips in early: “moving from an operating system to an intelligence system.” That line tells you how to read everything that follows. What Google didn’t sell For months the industry conversation wa
Read the report →The dominant fear going into the AI era was that machines would hollow out work, taking over not just repetitive tasks but the thinking behind them. Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index, which draws on trillions of anonymized Microsoft 365 productivity signals and a survey of 20,000 workers across 10 c
Read the report →Apple delivered a record March quarter, with revenue of $111.2B, up 17% YoY, and diluted EPS of $2.01, up 22% YoY. The quarter was strong enough to beat consensus on both revenue and EPS, but the call’s center of gravity was not the beat. It was the shape of demand, the Mac supply bottleneck, and th
Read the report →Motorola is holding its latest launch event in Los Angeles this week, and. The new razr 70 family expands the flip phone lineup, the motorola edge 70 pro arrives as a slim, design-forward device with a quad-camera system and a 6500mAh battery, and Collections by Motorola gets its formal introduction
Read the report →Google’s Workspace Intelligence announcement this week is being covered as a feature drop. The more accurate read is that it is a strategic argument, one that Google and Microsoft are both making simultaneously, about where AI value ultimately concentrates in an enterprise setting. The argument is t
Read the report →A fresh perspective is needed on foundry economics at the leading edge. For years, the industry lacked a clear cost-per-transistor framework, even as the economic foundation of Moore’s Law was becoming less durable. That framework held through N3E. It no longer holds at N2 and A16, and the evidence
Read the report →Neoclouds sit at the center of the AI infrastructure durability debate because they are increasingly the external channel through which hyperscalers secure additional power and compute to convert demand into revenue. CoreWeave ended 2025 with $66.8 billion in contracted backlog. Nebius signed a deal
Read the report →Apple announced this afternoon that Tim Cook will step down as CEO on September 1, 2026, with John Ternus taking over and Johny Srouji being elevated to Chief Hardware Officer effective immediately. The transition was widely expected, but not until 2027. Apple moved it up, and the reason why tells y
Read the report →Prerequisite: 800 VDC: The Inflection Point Reshaping Datacenter Power and AI Infrastructure (March 2026). This report builds directly on that analysis and assumes familiarity with the power architecture transition it describes. 800 VDC: The Inflection Point Reshaping Datacenter Power and AI Infrast
Read the report →Over the past year or so we’ve heard a lot about agents. Most of it hasn’t really happened, things have changed quickly, it’s hard to pinpoint and trends tend to be near impossible to predict because something you think may be successful ends up becoming irrelevant in three months. If you take a ste
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