AI
Cloudflare Just Told You What AI Is Actually For
Cloudflare cut 1,100 jobs the same week it posted record revenue. The pitch isn't austerity. It's something more honest, and more unsettling.
Maya Okonkwo··5 min read
Senior Writer, AI & Tech
Maya Okonkwo
Maya Okonkwo writes about artificial intelligence and the tools shaping how the rest of us work. Before joining the staff she covered enterprise software at a trade publication you've probably never heard of, which she swears taught her more than any j-school could. She's broken stories on three product launches that the companies in question would rather you forgot. Based in London, raised in Lagos. Skeptical by training.
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AI
The AI Self-Replication Story Is Real. The Framing Isn't.
Palisade's paper is genuinely interesting research. The press release wrapped around it is doing something else entirely — and that's the part worth paying attention to.
Maya Okonkwo··5 min read
AI
Cursor Isn't Winning the Model War. It's Winning the Surface.
Everyone's still benchmarking coding models. Cursor figured out the benchmark doesn't matter — the editor is the product, and the editor is the moat.
Maya Okonkwo··5 min read
News
OpenAI Pulled Three Models in a Week. The Real Story Is the Pricing Sheet.
Two deprecation notices and a quiet edit to the API docs. The model lineup is being rebuilt and the cheap tier is gone.
Maya Okonkwo··4 min read
AI
Cursor's $9 Billion Valuation Is a Bet on One Hard Thing
Anysphere's editor doesn't win on the model. It wins on a UX assumption everyone else got wrong.
Maya Okonkwo··5 min read
AI
We Used Claude to Run a Newsroom for a Week. Here's the Receipt.
Seven days. Real bylines. The token bill was lower than the coffee bill, but the editor still earned every penny.
Maya Okonkwo··7 min read