Max Beauroyre

The Airbnb marketplace is evolving toward its most effective product; it seems that what consumers want more than an exotic experience is something like a Days Inn but more stylish and less obvious — a generic space hidden behind a seemingly unique facade.

Yet AirSpace is now less theory than reality. The interchangeability, ceaseless movement, and symbolic blankness that was once the hallmark of hotels and airports, qualities that led the French anthropologist Marc Augé to define them in 1992 as “non-places,” has leaked into the rest of life.

The homogeneity of these spaces means that traveling between them is frictionless, a value that Silicon Valley prizes and cultural influencers like Schwarzmann take advantage of. Changing places can be as painless as reloading a website. You might not even realize you’re not where you started.

Opus 4.5 delivers clean, natural-sounding writing, but I’m sticking with Sonnet 4.5. It’s faster and more honest, and whatever differences there are in the writing quality on a word-by-word level are minor enough that I don’t feel compelled to switch. I’m still all-in on the Anthropic ecosystem for writing, but this release isn’t for me

Press releases announce “company-wide AI adoption.” Hallway conversations tell a different story. Employees haven’t opened the tools in weeks. The data lies. Comms lies. Dashboards show logins, not usage. Activation, not integration.

This is transformation theater. The appearance of change without the pain of change.

Nvidia will react by refusing to sell just chips. They will push the GB200 NVL72 - a massive, liquid-cooled supercomputer rack that costs millions. This forces customers to buy the entire Nvidia ecosystem (networking, cooling, CPUs), making it physically impossible to swap in a Google TPU or Amazon chip later.

By 2026, Google and OpenAI will have effectively cloned Perplexity’s core feature (Deep Research) and given it away for free.

By 2026, we expect a massive wave of “LLM blockades.” Major publishers will update their robots.txt to block Google-Extended and GPTBot, forcing users to visit the site to see the answer. This creates a “Dark Web” of high-quality content that AI cannot see, bifurcating the internet into AI slop (free) and human insight (paid).