artificial-intelligence

Published Soursen pieces tagged artificial-intelligence, page 3, with the standfirst and the beat. Every fact is checked against the source.

AI & GPU compute

Anthropic Just Posted $16.8

The numbers coming out of the AI industry are the biggest in the history of technology, and a growing group of analysts thinks that is the problem. I went through the real figures behind the bubble debate, Anthropic’s revenue, the infrastructure commitments, the debt, the falling cost of intelligence, and who is actually paying, because the case for a correction and the case against it both rest on the same facts.

22 October 202610 min read

Linux & open source

The Linux Kernel Just Stopped Labeling Its AI Code. The Real Story Is Who Pays for the Compute.

At the October 2026 maintainers summit, the Linux project dropped its requirement to tag AI assisted patches. The maintainers had reasonable reasons. The harder question is what it means that the compute reviewing and writing kernel code is donated by the same companies betting everything on AI.

15 October 20266 min read

AI & GPU compute

China Just Overtook America on the Only Metric That Predicts Who Builds the Future

Note: This article discusses ongoing industry developments and government policy. It is for informational purposes only.

17 July 202611 min read

Infrastructure

Are Data Centers a Good Deal for the Communities That Host Them?

We have been talking about the cloud as though it were an abstraction for years. Clean, invisible, frictionless, somewhere up there. The actual picture is less romantic.

14 July 20268 min read

AI & GPU compute

The AI Subscription Era Is Ending. Here Is What Replaces It.

There is a specific moment happening in AI pricing right now that is worth understanding clearly, because it is the first real signal of how the economics of this entire industry are likely to shift over the next few years.

14 July 20269 min read

AI & GPU compute

I Tried Making AI Image Generation 90x Cheaper. Here Is What I Learned About GPU Quantization.

The bill had a comma in it.

13 July 20269 min read

AI & GPU compute

Why You Should Stop Using Ollama in 2026 and What to Use Instead

Let me start with a confession. I used Ollama for a long time, and I recommended it to almost everyone who asked me about running AI models locally. It deserved that recommendation when it launched.

9 July 202611 min read

AI & GPU compute

The Number Nobody Tells You to Check When Buying a GPU for Local AI

If you have spent any time researching GPUs for running AI models locally, you have probably heard the same advice repeated everywhere: get as much VRAM as possible. That advice is not wrong.

7 July 20269 min read