The Next AI Fight Is Over Who Defines the Facts
The artificial-intelligence policy debate is usually framed as a contest over rules. Which countries regulate hardest, which companies get access…
Author: David McMahon
I'm David McMahon, an Irish journalist and technology writer based in Dublin. I cover the collision of artificial intelligence, policy, and culture.
The AI Moat Is Moving Downstream Into Deployment
For most of the past two years, the AI market has been narrated as a race to build the best…
Open-Source AI Is Becoming an Infrastructure Financing Story
The most revealing AI development of the past two days was not a new benchmark, a new chatbot personality, or…
The Next AI Land Grab Is the Scientific Workflow
The most interesting AI launch of the past two days was not a frontier-model benchmark and not another theatrical argument…
The Real AI Battlefield Is Moving Into Procurement
The most revealing AI development of the past two days was not a model launch, a benchmark result, or another…
AI Industrial Policy Is Becoming a Geography Problem
The most revealing AI development of the past two days was not a model launch, a new chatbot interface, or…
Governments Are Starting to Gate Frontier AI Before the Public Sees It
The most interesting thing about frontier AI this week is not a benchmark score, a chatbot personality tweak, or even…
AI Model Companies Are Becoming Chip Designers
When frontier AI labs talked about “the stack” a year ago, they usually meant models, tooling, and distribution. Increasingly, they…
AI Benchmarks Are Finally Starting to Look Like Work
A new paper released on June 22 may turn out to matter less because of its headline score than because…
AI Is Starting to Write the First Draft of the Product
The enterprise AI story has spent the past year orbiting code assistants, copilots, and workflow automation. That framing now looks…
AI Is Starting to Build Its Own Distribution Layer
The next contest in artificial intelligence may not be about who has the best model, but about which platforms can…