While the world debates AI in headlines, the real decisions are being made quietly — by people you’ve never heard of, in rooms you’re not invited into.
The most important stories in AI aren’t happening in press releases. They’re happening in the friction — between ambition and guardrails, between what a model can do and what a company is actually willing to let it.

That’s what this column is about. I’ll sit across from the engineers, ethicists, operators, and skeptics — asking questions that don’t make it onto earnings calls. You’ll hear their voices more than mine. Because the most important question in tech right now isn’t what AI can do. It’s who gets to decide how, when, and for whom.

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