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AI & Machine Learning Jun 6, 2026 • 4 min read

OpenAI's Ad Play: When Free Tier Economics Finally Catch Up With Reality

I spent last Tuesday debugging a production API that was mysteriously slow. Turns out, one of my team members had written a script that made 10,000 ChatGPT API calls to process customer data. When I asked why he didn't use the free tier instead, he shrugged and said, "Free tier's...

AI & Machine Learning Jan 31, 2026 • 3 min read

OpenAI’s new economic analysis

Analysis provides insights into ChatGPT’s impact on the economy. OpenAI also launches new research collaboration to study AI’s broader effects on the labor market and productivity.

AI & Machine Learning Jan 31, 2026 • 5 min read

When Your Users' Data Becomes Courtroom Evidence: Why Privacy Architecture Matters Now

Last month, I was reviewing our application logs at work—something I do regularly to spot performance issues—when I realized I could see patterns in how users interact with our product that felt... uncomfortable to know. Nothing malicious on our end, but the data was there. It ma...