AI in a Boardroom in Brazil

A New Era of Human + AI Governance A few weeks back, something quietly revolutionary happened in Brazil. A company called Prática decided to bring an AI clone along with the person, its owner, into its board of directors. Yes, you read that right. Not as a gimmick, not as a replacement for human leadership — but as a strategic thinking partner. This was made … Continue reading AI in a Boardroom in Brazil

Brazil 2030: The AI Superpower…

…No One Saw Coming (or maybe not?) When I was in school, history was not really my favorite class. It felt like a catalog of old dates, dusty maps, and events far removed from anything I cared about. Over time, I learned that history offers far more than trivia — it gives perspective, pattern recognition, a deeper understanding of cause and effect, and the ability … Continue reading Brazil 2030: The AI Superpower…

From Dial-Up to GPT-5

How the AI Moment Rhymes with the Internet’s Dawn Or Does it? Going back for the summer to Spain to visit family, I found myself in my mom’s basement—dust motes in the sunbeams, the faint smell of cardboard and old paper, and boxes labeled in my younger handwriting. In one, under envelopes of old photos from my photo-journalistic period and the detritus of a pre-cloud … Continue reading From Dial-Up to GPT-5

AI Wants to Eat the Grid: Will Humanity Feed It or Fry First?

The Quiet Emergency Behind the AI BoomEveryone is excited about AI breaking records, writing code, designing new medicines, and maybe even thinking like us. But there is one big problem growing behind all of this: electricity. For example, training GPT-3 used 1,287 megawatt-hours of energy—enough to power 100,000 homes. Every time someone asks ChatGPT a question, it uses about five times more electricity than a … Continue reading AI Wants to Eat the Grid: Will Humanity Feed It or Fry First?