ScreenSafe: A Technical Chronicle of On-Device AI and Privacy-First Architecture

Cloud-based content moderation is a privacy nightmare. Sending screenshots to a server just to check for safety? That’s a non-starter. My hypothesis was simple: modern mobile hardware is powerful enough to support a “Guardian AI” that sees the screen and redacts sensitive info (nudity, violence, private text) in milliseconds—strictly on-device using a hybrid inference strategy. … Read more

3 Common Misconceptions Fintech Founders Have About Engineering Teams

I’ve spent the last 10 years managing engineering teams for fintech projects, and I keep seeing the same patterns. Non-technical founders come in with specific assumptions about how software development works – assumptions that make perfect sense in other industries but create serious challenges in ours. Let me share the three biggest misconceptions I encounter, … Read more

Designing AI-Ready Infrastructure: What Modern Data Centers Actually Need

Over the last year, every conversation about compute seems to orbit around GPUs, model sizes, and training runs. But underneath all of that hype sits something much less glamorous and far more painful: the physical reality of building and operating AI-dense infrastructure. Many organizations are discovering this the hard way. You can buy racks of … Read more

How I Built a “Bicameral” AI Agent That Uses Australian Lasers to Make Decisions When Logic Fails

We often think of Artificial Intelligence as a “black box” of magic, but under the hood, it is fundamentally a math equation. It is deterministic. If you freeze the temperature and seed of a model, it will give you the exact same answer to the exact same prompt, forever. But the real world isn’t deterministic. … Read more

How GenAI is Reshaping the Modern Data Architecture

The Data Architecture was working, until the GenAI arrived In today’s world, most of the enterprises are building LLM based GenAI solutions with document and database based knowledge and multi-dimensional vectors. I believe you have either explored or have already done something similar.  Then you must have watched LLM query dragging itself across multiple networks … Read more

Your Brain Isn’t Broken—Your Map Is:

Why Buddhist Cognitive Science Explains What Neuroscience Cannot I have spent five years developing classes with monks at a Himalayan monastery, studying the anatomy of the mind. Never once did the monks say, “Your amygdala is overactive.” Instead, they said, “You are seeking certainty in an uncertain world. That is the root cause. Brain activity … Read more

UK Government to Start Tracking All Crypto Transactions

Key takeaways: Beginning Jan. 1 crypto exchanges will automatically share all transactional data on UK customers with HMRC. Robin Thatcher said he expects an increase in targeted compliance checks. HMRC will use this data to cross-check against information provided in self-assessment tax returns. Starting January 1, 2026, all cryptocurrency exchanges operating in the United Kingdom … Read more

Tomb Raider announces two new games

While Geoff Keighley had already announced that Tomb Raider would be making a Game Awards appearance, the surprise was that instead of one game announcement there’s two. Crystal Dynamics and Amazon Game Studios are releasing two Tomb Raider games back-to-back in 2026 and 2027. First up, coming in 2026 is Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis. … Read more

Tim Sweeney on the future of Fortnite after another win over Apple

Shortly after appeals court judges ruled against Apple’s contempt appeal in a years-long antitrust dispute against the makers of Fortnite, I got to talk to Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney in an interview. According to Sweeney, today’s ruling “completely shuts down” Apple’s App Store rules that allow it to collect “junk fees.” The three-judge Ninth … Read more