As the model race becomes a contest for scarce resources, the AI industry is being led down an unsustainable path. Today, a handful of companies control the chips, capital...

Last October, HSS Hire Group- a business established in 1947, with a network of 130 physical depots - sold itsrental operations to a private equity firm and became, overnight, a zero-asset technology company. Nowarehouses. No fleet. A digital marketplace pairing construction managers with a network of suppliers acrosstools, equipment, fuel, training and materials. That is the short version of the story. The longer version is more useful, because it explains why we made the technology choices we did, and why AI is now central to how the platform operates - not as a feature, but asinfrastructure. The Problem We Were Actually Solving Construction hire looks deceptively simple from the outside. A company needs a digger, they order it, it arrives.But a hire transaction does not end at the equivalent of a checkout. It extends across days, weeks, sometimesyears. A digger hired for three days might be kept for three months. Extensions trigger different...

For the past two years, the artificial intelligence debate has been dominated by capability. AI has moved quickly from innovation...