Posted August 5, 2026
In AI, EU MDR, FDA, medical devices, regulation, SaMD

How Software Became a Medical Device

The Therac-25 reached the US market in 1983 by declaring itself equivalent to something already on sale. Forty years later, 97% of AI-enabled medical devices get there the same way. How the category was assembled backwards, one definitional crisis at a time.

Posted August 2, 2026
In compliance, data privacy, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, SOC 2

Compliant With What? A Working Map of GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2 and ISO 27001

Two of the four are laws you can only be found in violation of; two are attestations you can buy. A practical map of what each framework actually asks, where the control sets genuinely overlap, and why the published overlap figures range from 43% to 85%.

Posted July 27, 2026
In AI infrastructure, data privacy, GDPR, LLM, local AI

Local AI vs Cloud AI: The Break-Even Is About Utilization, Not Tokens

One vendor says $1,500 gets you running a local LLM. Another quotes a $237,000 annual floor. Both are telling the truth — and neither number is the one that decides whether on-premise AI makes sense for you.

Posted July 23, 2026
In compliance, data privacy, DPO, GDPR, SaaS

Does Your SaaS Actually Need a Data Protection Officer? Running the Article 37 Test

The GDPR question SaaS founders ask most often has no numeric answer — it turns on two deliberately undefined phrases. And whichever way you land, you need to be able to show your work.

Posted July 19, 2026
In AI, QA, quality engineering, software testing, test automation

AI Didn’t Kill Manual QA — It Killed the Boring Half of It

Three years of predictions said AI would replace software testers. Instead, 89% of organizations are experimenting with AI in QA, only 15% have scaled it, AI-generated code has become the industry's biggest new source of bugs — and the testers who remain are being paid more, not less.

Posted July 3, 2026
In AI, chips, DRAM, memory shortage, semiconductors

How AI Ate the World’s Memory Chips — And Why Relief Isn’t Coming Until 2028

A structural shift toward AI memory chips has sent DRAM prices soaring and triggered a price-fixing lawsuit — and unlike past shortages, this one won't resolve until new fabs come online in 2028.

Posted June 30, 2026
In AI, Broadcom, chips, semiconductors

Broadcom Is Worth More Than Tesla and Meta Combined-Adjacent — and Almost Nobody Outside Finance Has Noticed

Broadcom passed Tesla and Meta in market cap without shipping a single consumer product — it builds the custom chips and networking silicon that stitch together everyone else's AI clusters.

Posted June 23, 2026
In cybersecurity, data breach, Scattered Spider, social engineering

A 10-Minute Phone Call Took Down MGM’s Systems. The 19-Year-Old Behind a Similar Scheme Just Got Extradited.

Peter Stokes, 19, was extradited from Finland to face charges tied to Scattered Spider — a group whose signature move isn't malware, it's a convincing phone call to an IT help desk.

Posted June 15, 2026
In AI, OpenAI, policy, regulation, Sam Altman

OpenAI Wants to Give the US Government a 5% Stake. The Pitch Compares It to Alaska’s Oil Fund — But AI Isn’t Oil.

A 5% stake in OpenAI would be worth $42.6 billion. Sam Altman is framing it as a sovereign-wealth-fund model borrowed from Alaska's oil dividend — but the analogy breaks down exactly where it matters most.

Posted June 8, 2026
In AI, Azure, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, outage

Microsoft’s Own AI Service Took Down Azure for Nearly 8 Hours — Because of a Change That Looked Fine in One Region

A rollout that seemed contained in Australia East got pushed to Sweden Central before anyone realized it was the cause — turning a manageable blip into a nearly eight-hour Azure OpenAI Service outage.

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