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What The Fudge for May 17, 2026: Trillion-Dollar Valuations, Sovereign AI, and the Agentic Edge

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Anthropic nears a trillion-dollar valuation, the American AI moat faces scrutiny, and small language models break out at the edge.

What The Fudge for May 10, 2026: Material Science, Policy as Code, and Quiet Supersonics

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Exploring the shift from copper to optics, the rise of agentic infrastructure automation, and NASA's quiet supersonic milestone.


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