Maligned #9 - The Platform Lock-In Trap
Enterprise AI teams are sleepwalking into platform dependencies they will regret.
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Maligned #10 - The Hype Cycle Turns
AI is entering the part of the cycle where the hard, boring work actually matters.
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Maligned #8 - Multimodal Gets Practical
Multimodal AI moved from cool demos to actual production use cases this week.
Maligned #7 - Safety Theater vs. Real Safety
The AI safety conversation is split between people doing real work and people performing for cameras.
Maligned #6 - Small Models, Big Impact
The race to build smaller, more efficient models is producing results that matter for real deployments.
Maligned #5 - Who Owns the Training Data
The copyright lawsuits are piling up and the outcomes will define the next decade of AI.
Maligned #4 - Regulation Moves Faster Than Expected
The EU AI Act enforcement timelines just got real and most companies are not ready.
Maligned #3 - The Agent Hype Hits Reality
AI agents are everywhere in pitch decks but scarce in production, and the gap is telling.
Maligned #2 - Fine-Tuning Is Not a Strategy
Everyone is fine-tuning models and most of them are wasting their time.
Maligned #1 - The Inference Cost War Begins
Cloud providers are slashing inference prices and it is about to reshape who can afford to build with AI.