Ideas Weave Every Narrative with AI.
Local AI models won’t win; they’ll become an expensive hobby. The classic argument that PCs beat mainframes fails for AI because cloud APIs have compounding advantages: they improve faster, get cheaper, and absorb feedback loops that local hardware can’t match. If you build on local models for independence, you aren’t creating a moat—you’re taking a costly nostalgia trip.
Naomi Bashkansky left OpenAI to build telepathy. Most dismiss it as sci-fi. But she’s not building a mind-reading gadget—she’s building the most dangerous platform control point in history: the thought-data pipeline. Whoever controls the neural interface owns the future of human cognition. The only question is whether you’ll volunteer to surrender your most private data.
Apple’s invincibility is real — but it’s anchored to a paradigm. Its hardware excellence, developer lock-in, and ecosystem gravity are all optimized for a world of screens and apps. The disruption won’t come from a better phone. It’ll come from AI-driven platforms that make ‘the device’ irrelevant. The same fortress that protects Apple today is the trap that will doom it tomorrow.