The Market Map: Owning Your Intelligence

Mapping the ecosystem enabling enterprises to build and own AI

Jul 16 • Brian Sykes

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June 2026

Post-Training is Back: How to Own Your Intelligence Like a Pro

A practical guide to custom model development, post-training, and the startup ecosystem making it all possible

Jun 24 • Brian Sykes

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The End of Renting Intelligence

Why leading companies can no longer afford to rent frontier intelligence

Jun 16 • Brian Sykes

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The AI Bottleneck Isn't Chips. It's Watts.

Why the next era of AI will be defined by power, not silicon

Jun 12 • Brian Sykes

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The End of Free Money in AI: Why the Industry Is Moving to Cost-Accounting Mode

Why AI's AWS moment came too soon — and what it means for enterprise AI adoption

Jun 1 • Brian Sykes

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May 2026

The Return of the IC Role

A few years ago, career growth in Big Tech meant one thing: stop doing the work and start managing people. AI is quietly reversing that equation.

May 27

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April 2026

Anthropic AI Exposure Index, Part II: Perception vs. Reality

Workers know what's coming. However, the ones most worried about it are actually the ones best positioned to win.

Apr 27 • Brian Sykes

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xAI and Cursor Make it Official

SpaceX said it will either buy Cursor for $60 billion or pay the startup a $10 billion model training fee

Apr 22 • Brian Sykes

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The State of AI Adoption in the Enterprise [Q1 2026 Review]

Do 95% of enterprise AI pilots really fail? Making sense of the oft-cited MIT study that seems to pop up in every pitch deck - and what the data…

Apr 13 • Brian Sykes

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Delve Part II: Delve and the Deathly Hollows

The fraud deepens. A whistleblower arrives. Somehow, it gets worse.

Apr 3 • Brian Sykes

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March 2026

The Delve Scandal: Compliance as a Grift

A YC darling, a $300M valuation, Forbes 30u30 glory — and then the receipts arrived.

Mar 26 • Brian Sykes

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Anthropic AI Exposure Index: A White-Collar Wake-Up Call

Anthropic's new labor market research paints a fascinating—and sobering—picture of AI disruption in the workforce.

Mar 6 • Brian Sykes

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