“If you are competing on price, then maybe you don’t have a business.”
(Amjad Masad, CEO Replit)
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ChatGPT is making Brand Personality a hard science. Are you ready?
One weird change that LLMs are introducing to the world is a technology with mood settings.
Until now, there have been elements of 'emotional' technology, such as designing objects with warm, fluffy materials and colors, or skeuomorphic digital interfaces. The poster child of this is probably the absurdly
🟢 The AI bubble discussion...
This week, let me put a quick nail in the 'bubble' discussion about AI. Being quite the cautious sceptic, I am about tech and know the usual hype curve perfectly well, so I don't think AI is going away anytime soon...
Down-Selling vs. the low-cost trap: Does Apple get it?
Apple is rumoured to develop a lower-cost Mac laptop, expected to launch in the first half of 2026, aimed at students and budget-conscious users who currently choose Chromebooks or entry-level Windows PCs. To keep the price below its traditional Mac lineup, the alleged new model will use a slightly smaller
No, Nobel economists still haven't cracked down on how to innovate
Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, recent Nobel Prize winners in economics, will end up shaping how European governments think about innovation for the next decades. And that's not good news.
🟢 Tech supremacy, yuan, gold, and scaling trust
This is a bit of an odd edition of the newsletter as it addresses geopolitical events that I usually don't discuss. But, like most of you, probably, I was trying to give a cogent answer to the question: will there be an AI bubble explosion soon (spoiler: the answer is no).
🔵 Cruising in chaos - Part 6, Samsung vs. Vision Pro: First-mover or second entrant?
In this series of articles, which started this summer, I explore the key differences between innovation during relatively stable times and our current market. After discussing a few theories and toolsets, let's explore some current efforts to deal with chaos and what we can learn from them.