Scott Krukowski

May 10, 2026

Sunday Reflection: The Advocate Who Indwells

Christ promised the disciples another Paraclete, one who would not merely assist them but dwell within them, and that promise still divides the helpers we have from the Helper we need.

May 8, 2026

OpenAI Ships GPT-Realtime-2 Voice API as AI Moves Into Apps

OpenAI launched GPT-Realtime-2 plus voice translation and transcription. Same week, AI moved inside Excel, Word, and Acrobat. The tools are reshaping us.

May 7, 2026

ChatGPT Goes Ad-Supported: The Free Ride Has a New Price Tag

OpenAI took ChatGPT ads to five new countries and opened a self-serve manager with CPC bidding. The free AI tool is now an ad-supported consumer product.

May 6, 2026

OpenAI Makes GPT-5.5 Instant the Default for Every ChatGPT User

OpenAI made GPT-5.5 Instant the default for every ChatGPT user, claiming a 52.5% drop in hallucinations. The default still earns no automatic trust.

May 5, 2026

Anthropic and OpenAI Launch Rival Wall Street JVs on the Same Morning

Anthropic closes a $1.5B enterprise JV with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs; OpenAI finalizes a $10B vehicle backed by 19 investors, same day. Two labs, one playbook, zero coincidence.

May 4, 2026

Cerebras Sets $3.5B IPO at $26.6B Valuation: The First AI Chip Listing Has Arrived

Cerebras prices 28M shares at $115-$125, targeting a $26.6B valuation on $510M revenue. Pentagon AI contracts freeze out Anthropic. Microsoft Agent 365 goes GA.

May 3, 2026

Sunday Reflection: What the Apostles Refused to Delegate

When the early church faced a scaling crisis, the apostles delegated some work and refused to delegate other work. The line they drew is the line every operator now has to draw with AI.

May 1, 2026

Anthropic's $900B Pre-IPO Round: The Lab Leapfrogs OpenAI

Anthropic is closing a $50B round at a ~$900B valuation in two weeks, leapfrogging OpenAI's $852B. The frontier labs are now pricing each other.

Apr 23, 2026

Google Cloud Next 2026: TPU 8t/8i, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, and a $750M Partner Fund

Google unveils eighth-gen TPU 8t/8i chips and the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at Cloud Next 2026, backed by a $750M partner fund. OpenAI, Tencent, Anthropic, and NEC round out a week of consolidation moves.

Apr 22, 2026

SpaceX's $60 Billion Cursor Option: The AI Coding Stack Consolidates

SpaceX locks a $60 billion option on Cursor with 200,000-GPU Colossus compute access. GPT-5.5 surfaces briefly in OpenAI Codex. Anthropic's Claude Design erases $700 million from Figma's market cap in 48 hours.

Apr 21, 2026

The Borrower and the Lender

Amazon put up to $25B more into Anthropic. Anthropic pledged $100B back to AWS over a decade. The frontier lab is now a tenant of its largest investor.

Apr 20, 2026

The House Divided: When the Same Government Says Yes and No to the Same AI

The NSA is deploying an AI model that the Pentagon has officially blacklisted. That contradiction is not a bug in the system. It is the system.

From Chat to Managed Agent: The Five Floors of AI Architecture

Most operators think they are building agents when they are using a chatbot, running a skill, or driving a terminal. Here is the map every builder should carry: what each floor of AI architecture actually is, what it isn't, and when to choose it.

The Economics of Tokens

Every word you speak to an AI costs something. Learn the currency before the bill comes due.