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- 01 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.
- 02 Technology · July 2026 · 10 min
June 2026: The Month the Machinery Showed Through
The story of AI had always been about which model was smartest. In one strange month it quietly became a story about the state that licenses intelligence, the grid that powers it, and the few companies that own the rest.