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July 7, 2026
Hello and welcome.
Technologist. AI leader, builder, and advisor in Silicon Valley. A bit of an autodidact. Pattern matching. Intermittently coding. Thinking about AI marketing & communications, global AI go-to-market, and community for AI builders, engineers, and developers. Read more →
Artificial Intelligence — AI research, frontier AI labs and neolabs, superintelligence, AGI, frontier AI, frontier models, world models, large language models (LLMs), AI infra, open source AI, AI devtools, global AI, sovereign AI, multilingual AI, machine learning, AI hardware, robotics. Technology — open source software, quantum computing, infrastructure, developer tools, and decentralization.
Frontier AI Lab Tracker
Daily news headlines about frontier AI labs, plus curated lab profiles with career and social links.
- Updated July 2026
Neolab and Emerging AI Lab Tracker
A 2026 directory of neolabs, stealth labs, and emerging AI labs worldwide with curated profiles, including career and social links. Designed for AI researchers and other AI professionals.
- Updated July 2026
AI Coding Landscape
A current list of known AI coding models, coding agents, CLI tools, open source coding tools, AI IDEs, coding benchmarks, and more.
- Updated July 2026
The Urgency of Open Source AI
An updated open source LLM release timeline for 2026 and beyond. Includes open source license definitions and additional open source AI resources.
- Updated July 2026
A 2026 list of Startup Accelerators, Incubators, Residencies and Other Programs
Resources for up-and-coming AI startup founders.
- Updated July 2026
OpenClaw Security News
A collection of news headlines about OpenClaw Security for AI builders, developers, and investors.
- Updated July 2026
Awesome AI Market Maps
A carefully curated repository of 500+ AI Market Maps.
- Updated July 2026
AI Market Maps: Curated Intelligence from Leading VCs, Analysts, and Practitioners - Updated June 2026
The Great Frontier AI Lab Product War Is Just Beginning - Updated June 2026
Global AI Regulations: A Comprehensive Roundup - Updated June 2026
Anthropic's Claude Plays Pokémon! - Updated June 2026
What Artificial Intelligence trends I'm keeping an eye on for H2 2025 - July 2025
The challenges of building agentic AI systems for business use cases - March 2025
Want a quick object lesson in developer communications gone wrong? - February 2025
DeepSeek proves why society and policymakers need to understand how LLMs are integrated into technology - January 2025
If you have AGI why sell it through an API? - January 2025
If AI development stopped today - December 2024
What I'm seeing in AI Go-To-Market - October 2024
My AI Resource List
A useful opinionated repository of Artificial Intelligence ecosystem resources - AI event calendars, papers, articles, videos, tools, AI leaderboards, and much more.
An AI Glossary
Key terms and definitions in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
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