The Cosmic Howl: When Graduates Boo the Future

At commencement ceremonies across the United States this May, something unprecedented happened. Record executive Scott Borchetta told Middle Tennessee State University graduates that "AI is rewriting production as we sit here" — and was booed. Real estate executive Gloria Caulfield called AI "the next industrial revolution" at the University of Central Florida — booed. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt referenced "the architects of artificial intelligence" at the University of Arizona — booed, repeatedly. The Class…

Tech Briefing — Tuesday, May 26 2026

Anthropic's Mythos 1 is moving toward broader availability while DeepSeek locks in permanent price cuts, and the MCP spec gets its biggest revision since launch. Meanwhile, the AI price war intensifies as Anthropic marches toward profitability and SpaceX stuns with a neocloud gambit that nearly doubled its revenue in a quarter.

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Code Red at the Price War Summit

This morning, DeepSeek permanently slashed API prices by 75%. That's a market thunderclap. We will respond with composure-adjacent urgency.