Your Competitor Just Rented You Compute: Inside the Anthropic-SpaceX Deal
xAI’s Colossus 2 just went live — 550,000 GPUs, one gigawatt of power, the first cluster of its kind on Earth. Then Anthropic announced they’re renting Colossus 1 from SpaceX. Here’s what that actually means.
Claude Opus 4.7 Just Dropped — Your $20 Tier Got Smarter This Morning
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.7 today, April 16, 2026. No fanfare event. No keynote. Just a point release that quietly moved the ceiling up again. If you’re already paying for Claude, you don’t need to do anything — you’re already using it. If you’re not, here’s why that changes the math again. What Actually Changed […]
One Person. One Quarter. Everything I Built With AI in Q1 2026.
In February, I posted what I’d built in a single month with AI tools. People thought it was impressive. That was one month. Here’s the full quarter. January through March 2026. One person. AI subscriptions under $300/month. No employees. No contractors. No outsourcing. What Shipped Websites and Content 3 complete webbooks published — 32 chapters […]
I Made Tech Predictions in 2025. Here’s the Q1 2026 Scorecard.
In August 2025, I wrote a piece called “The Machines Are Here.” Not a blog post about chatbots. A prediction — the kind that made people in my circle think I was being dramatic. The core claims: AI won’t just assist. It will replace entire workflows. Small towns aren’t ready. White-collar work restructures first. “Business […]
The Cheat Codes Are Out — April 2026 AI Update
I started this series in January with a simple idea: give away everything I know about using AI for business. No gatekeeping. No $400 markups on a $20 tool. Three months later, the tools have moved so fast that half of what I wrote in January is already underselling reality. Here’s where we are in […]
Set Up Claude AI in 15 Minutes: A No-BS Guide
There are a hundred AI tools vying for your attention right now. Most of them want your money before you understand what they do. Here’s a guide that skips the marketing and gets you working with one of the best ones — Claude, made by Anthropic — in about 15 minutes. Full disclosure: We use […]
Sign Up for Claude or You’re Already Falling Behind
Sign up for Claude or you’re already falling behind. I’m serious. Agentic AI Is Nothing Like You Think It isn’t a repeating algorithm. It isn’t a hallucinating chatbot. It isn’t a gimmick. It’s your new assistant. What I Built in 4 Hours Today I just spent one working session with Claude building: A complete onboarding […]
I Did It: How I Replicated Myself with AI
Years ago, when I was a Service Director managing IT teams, I made a promise to myself. “One day, I’m going to replicate a team of me and build my own IT company.” People nodded politely. Some laughed. The math didn’t work — you can’t clone yourself, and hiring ten people costs ten salaries. The […]
I Installed an AI Brain on My Computer in 20 Minutes
I Installed an AI Brain on My Computer in 20 Minutes I’ve been planning a local AI infrastructure project for months. Researching models, benchmarking hardware, writing strategy documents. The whole enterprise planning exercise. Then I sat down one afternoon and just… did it. Twenty minutes later, I had a 7-billion-parameter language model running on my […]
AI Acceleration Hits the Jobs Market: 60,000+ Tech Layoffs in Q1 2026 as Musk Declares “We Are in the Singularity”
Picture this: You’re the shift supervisor at the manufacturing plant outside Montgomery, or the office manager at the insurance agency in Waseca. The machines aren’t coming for your job tomorrow. They’re already here — quietly, efficiently, and faster than anyone in Silicon Valley is admitting out loud. This quarter alone, the tech world just shed […]