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The Frontier
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The FrontierThe AI Power Era: The Week AI’s Center of Gravity Moved From Capability to Power
This memo is late, and I will own why. It was Father’s Day, and after three years I finally fired up the grill. A lot of work, worth every drop of sweat, and I am tired and happily retired for the day. Belated Father’s Day to every dad who takes pride in that top job. […]
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The FrontierThe AI Trillion Era: The Week Capital, Cost, and Liability Caught Up to AI
AI Weekly Memo – Week of June 15, 2026 | Signals from June 8-14, 2026 For leaders who need signal, not noise. For the first time in months, this felt like a normal week. The frontier labs went quiet on new models and loud on listings, pricing, and courtrooms. That quiet is the signal. This […]
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The FrontierAI Weekly Memo – AI Sovereignty Era
Week of June 8, 2026 | Signals from June 1 – June 7 For leaders who need signal, not noise. This week, the Accountability Era memo I sent Tuesday got reactions from CFOs I have never met. Every single response asked the same follow-up: if AI vendors are now trillion-dollar companies, who actually controls them? […]
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The FrontierAI Weekly Memo – AI Accountability Era Has Begun
This week reminded me of the early cloud days. Everything, including my cleaning service, was “moving to the cloud” and no one could explain the ROI yet. Same pattern. Different decade! It marks the beginning of the AI Accountability Era. Five weeks ago, bills came due for builders in the Reckoning Era. Four weeks ago, […]
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The FrontierThe Market-of-One Series Reflection: What I Underplayed Over Nine Weeks
Nine weeks ago I started writing a series called Market-of-One. The argument was that the thirty-year-old promise of personalization had stayed broken because every enterprise had been treating a system problem like a component problem. Eight components, eight failure modes, one operating system to connect them, and a named destination called Customer Singularity. Last week […]
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The FrontierAI Weekly Memo – The AI Reality Era Has Begun
Week of May 25, 2026 | Signals from May 18 – May 24 For leaders who need signal, not noise. Four weeks ago the bills came due for builders. Three weeks ago for buyers. Then AI got embedded. Then the distribution channel became the moat. This week the story flipped as we enter the AI […]
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The FrontierAI Weekly Memo – The Embedment Era Has Begun
Week of May 11, 2026 | Signals from May 4 – May 10 For leaders who need signal, not noise. The Thesis Two weeks ago the bills came due for the builders. Last week the bills came due for the buyers. This week the question changed entirely. AI is no longer being sold to enterprises. […]
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The FrontierAI Weekly Memo – The Week the Consumption Era Began
Week of May 4, 2026 | Signals from April 27 – May 3 For leaders who need signal, not noise. The Thesis Last week the bills came due for the builders. This week they came due for the buyers with the beginning of AI Consumption Era. Uber’s CTO admitted on the record that the company […]
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The FrontierAI Weekly Memo – The Week the Bill Came Due
Week of April 27, 2026 | Signals from April 20-26 For leaders who need signal, not noise. Last week I wrote about the Scoreboard Era. The data showed who was winning. This week showed who was paying. Google committed up to $40B to Anthropic. Meta cut 8,000 jobs. Microsoft offered buyouts to 8,750. Tesla raised […]
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AI & The Growth EngineAI Weekly Memo – Week the Scoreboard Became Undeniable
Week of April 20, 2026 | Signals from April 13-19 For leaders who need signal, not noise. The Thesis Last week I wrote about the Consequence Era. This week I’m retiring that frame. We have entered the Scoreboard Era. PwC just published the numbers. Stanford published the benchmarks. Snap published the playbook. And Anthropic showed […]
Read →AI Weekly Memo – The Week AI Supplier Risk Became Unignorable
Week of April 6, 2026 | Signals from March 30 – April 5 For leaders who need signal, not noise. The Thesis AI’s enterprise promise is colliding with operational reality. If last week was about the “Friction Layer” of regulation and ROI, this week is about “Structural Fragility.” AI’s enterprise promise is colliding with operational […]
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Market-of-OneThe Broken Promise: Personalization Has Been Lying to You for Thirty Years
Personalization has been lying to you for thirty years. Every brand claims it. Every platform sells it. Every conference deck has a slide about it. And yet the data tells a story the industry refuses to say out loud: after three decades and hundreds of billions in investment, personalization is still mostly theater. In 1993, […]
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