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Solid-State Batteries: What’s Real in 2026 and What Isn’t
Why this matters this week If you build or buy systems that depend on lithium-ion batteries (EVs, grid-scale storage, robotics), solid-state batteries have moved from “PowerPoint” to “engineering risk you actually need to model.” Two things are converging: Early production lines are now running at pilot and low-volume commercial scale. Several OEMs have locked vehicle…
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Stop Hoarding Prompts: A Pragmatic Guide to AI Privacy & Governance
Why this matters this week If you’re running production AI systems, you’re probably sitting on an unacknowledged liability: unbounded prompt and output logs. In the last 60 days I’ve seen: A mid-size SaaS vendor quietly halt an AI feature because legal discovered they were retaining full customer tickets and prompts indefinitely in an observability tool….
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The Unsexy Reality of Serverless AWS Cost & Reliability
Why this matters this week AWS bills for Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, DynamoDB, SQS, EventBridge, Kinesis, CloudWatch, and “misc” just landed for the month. Teams are discovering: A “cheap” serverless migration quietly doubled their spend. P95 latency blew up after a seemingly harmless change to an event-driven workflow. An incident investigation stalled because nobody…