Carlos KiK
RSS FeedAI, LLMs, and the future of human-machine connection. Raw takes from a builder in the arena. Currently building KAi , an AI companion that actually remembers you.
Recent Posts
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I Pay $110 a Month for Claude. I Now Get One-Fifth of What I Used to.
Anthropic silently reduced Claude Code quotas, degraded model quality, capped rule files without warning, leaked their own source code, and then mass-reported 8,100 GitHub repos by accident. This is what paying for AI looks like in 2026.
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Oracle Is Laying Off 30,000 People While Building AI Datacenters as Fast as It Can.
Oracle is cutting up to 30,000 employees across the US and India while aggressively investing in AI infrastructure. The largest enterprise tech layoff of 2026 so far, and the pattern should be familiar by now.
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Mistral Just Borrowed $830 Million to Buy GPUs. Not Equity. Debt.
France's leading AI lab took on $830 million in debt to buy 13,800 NVIDIA chips and build a datacenter near Paris. When companies start borrowing money to buy GPUs, the compute crisis has entered a new phase.
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Shopify Is Betting Everything on AI Storefronts. Walmart Already Proved It Doesn't Work.
Shopify launched 'Agentic Storefronts' inside ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot. The same week, Walmart revealed AI checkout converted 3x worse than their website. Two companies, same thesis, opposite conclusions. And both are missing the point.
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Cloudflare Built a WordPress Replacement in Two Months With AI. It Is Called EmDash.
Cloudflare launched EmDash, an open-source CMS built on Astro that sandboxes plugins so they cannot destroy your site. Two engineers built it in two months with AI agents. WordPress's 24-year reign just got its first credible challenger.
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The OpenAI Graveyard: Every Deal and Product That Died.
Sora, the Disney billion-dollar deal, the Windsurf acquisition, Stargate, the in-chat checkout, GPT-4o, the Operator standalone, the AMD partnership. OpenAI announces like a kingdom and delivers like a startup.
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Jack Dorsey Cut 40% of His Workforce. His Reason: AI Can Do Their Jobs.
Block just fired 4,000 people. Jack Dorsey did not blame the economy or restructuring. He said AI tools make smaller teams possible. But here is what nobody is saying: it is not intelligence replacing people, it is automation replacing procedures.
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Robotics Startups Raised $1.2 Billion in a Single Week. The Money Has Made Its Decision.
Five robotics companies raised over $1.2 billion in seven days. Mind Robotics, Rhoda AI, Sunday, Oxa, Fauna Robotics. The venture capital world just declared that physical AI is no longer a research bet. It is an investment thesis.