The Ghost Story Became a Forecast.

Clark’s recent essay reveals a bivalent forecast for AI development, with a 60% chance of automated AI R&D by 2028 and a 40% possibility of fundamental paradigm failure.

Saturation. The ten-essay framework, closed.

The European sovereign-LLM essay track has concluded after ten comprehensive analyses, marking a strategic saturation point ahead of key EU AI milestones.

EuroHPC. The compute substrate.

An analysis of EuroHPC’s compute substrate, its current capabilities, limitations, and implications for Europe’s AI ambitions amid ongoing projects and investments.

Portfolio. The synthesis.

A comprehensive analysis of six institutional responses to Europe’s sovereign LLM challenge, highlighting strategic insights before August 2026 enforcement.

Forward-Deployed Engineer Economics 2.0: The Unit Economics Math, Six Months Later

Six months after initial analysis, new data reveals the evolving unit economics of FDEs, highlighting profitability and scaling challenges for frontier AI labs.

How Gaming Room Setups Became a Personal Branding Trend

Just how gaming room setups evolved into a powerful branding trend is fascinating and reveals the impact of environment on online identity.

Aleph Alpha. The retrospective case.

Analyzing Aleph Alpha’s strategic pivot, funding, and merger with Cohere to understand the costs of late structural adaptation in European AI development.

Engineering Is Automated. Research Is the Residual.

Recent analysis shows AI has automated much of core engineering tasks in AI R&D, while research remains less automated. This shifts the landscape of AI development.

Software engineering. The canonical case.

New data confirms a 40% drop in junior developer hiring since 2022, with significant bifurcated effects across experience levels and ongoing pipeline risks.

OpenEuroLLM. The third path.

European consortium OpenEuroLLM faces significant compute challenges as it advances toward first model delivery in July 2026, highlighting limits of pan-European AI efforts.