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What is happening in the AI market, and what it changes for the teams shipping it.

Short reads on infrastructure, sovereignty, and the events that move what private AI is actually worth.

A man on a Cape Town Metrorail train working on a laptop, Table Mountain and a passing train through the window.Model training

18 July 2026 · 5 min read

A private AI, small enough to run on a Raspberry Pi.

You ask a question. It answers, in your voice, using knowledge only your company has. No phone-home, no per-query bill, and it runs on hardware you already own. This is what your own AI feels like.

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A focused platform engineer in a Sea Point office on a phone call, staring at a cloud console showing mostly greyed-out GPU instance options, Lion's Head visible through the window behind her.Infrastructure

24 June 2026 · 6 min read

Azure has H100s in Johannesburg. AWS has T4s. Google has nothing.

Priya called all three hyperscalers. The answers were so different from each other that her POPIA-compliant deployment plan changed twice in one week. Here is what is actually live in South Africa, with the SKUs and the VRAM.

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An exhausted AI engineer at his desk staring at a laptop displaying a service-unavailable error, multiple monitors dim around him.Reliability

23 June 2026 · 5 min read

Claude was banned by the US government. Then it crashed ten times in twelve days.

On June 12 the US Commerce Department suspended Anthropic's two newest models for every foreign national on earth. A week later Anthropic was on its tenth outage in twelve days. The shape of the problem is not Anthropic. It is the assumption.

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