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"...manufacture a crisis..."
So true Steve Eisman ! "But the idea that this whole terminator thing is nonsense. So I think some completely different is going on. And what I think is happening is that token maxing is over. The open weight models are taking big market share. I think these companies are very nervous. They realize that there are no moats around their business whatsoever, and they're trying to manufacture a crisis that will create regulation and that they think they can then manipulate to cre

Federico Carrasco
Sep 191 min read


The Frontier AI Hypocrisy !
Dario Amodei says "we must pace the frontier". Sam Altman nods. Go ahead and cut the act, the theater and the hypocrisy! Anthropic and OpenAI are the frontier. By market share, model capability, and self‑claimed recursive improvement, both companies already run a duopoly. If their unreleased (?) models are so risky, to slow down, fine, be responsible and just do it! ⚠️ Stop pretending you need regulators, antitrust exceptions, or "independent" evaluators tied to your own inv

Federico Carrasco
Sep 131 min read


Groundbreaking "innovation" from Apple: a phone that costs more than a solid laptop.
⚠️ It’s become painfully obvious that Apple stopped being an innovative company years ago and quietly transformed into a phone factory. The iPhone is their cash cow, their golden goose, their entire business model in a shiny aluminum shell. For fiscal years 2024 and 2025 (and already looking that way for 2026), the iPhone accounts for more than half of Apple’s total revenue. Ever since, Steve Jobs, the only guy who actually had ideas, "left the building", the strategy has bee

Federico Carrasco
Sep 91 min read


Does Freedom Still Exist, or Are We Just Living in the "Perfect" Aquarium?
What actually is freedom in the age of AI? Or are we just holding onto a comfortable illusion? This is an excerpt from a recent discussion I had on ΚΡΗΤΗ TV with Giorgos Sachinis, where we explored some of these questions in greater depth. 🧠 The Illusion of Control • Freedom isn't being abolished, it’s being steered. • Choices aren't forbidden, they're carefully bounded. • We aren't told what to think, we’re subtly trained how to think. Where tyrants once had names and addre

Federico Carrasco
Sep 61 min read


Can technology influence election results? The answer is yes.
See my recent interview with Militaire News, the leading Greek YouTube channel and news portal covering defence, foreign policy, diplomacy, and politics. We discuss different methods of influencing and manipulating elections, from psychological influence and surveillance to technical intervention. We explore how digital voting systems can be vulnerable to interference at multiple levels, particularly in remote voting by citizens abroad. I also present evidence and videos show

Federico Carrasco
Sep 11 min read


The AI Bubble: Capex, Circular Financing, Unsustainable Economics
The rapid escalation of capital expenditure on artificial intelligence infrastructure has produced the largest investment surge in modern history. Yet the underlying economics remain detached from demonstrated returns. Hyperscalers and AI labs are committing trillions in spending while generating limited, often unprofitable revenue. Circular financing, off-balance-sheet obligations, and intensifying competition from Chinese open-source models have created a structure vulnerab

Federico Carrasco
Aug 47 min read


7 leading LLMs over 7 challenges
Over the past few days, I stress‑tested the world’s top LLMs using real engineering and business tasks, not trivia or creative prompts. I focused on the work I actually want to increase productivity, putting seven leading AI models through a rigorous seven‑challenge gauntlet. Python Code Generation, Clean, production-ready scripts under pressure CSS/HTML Debugging, Live rendering fixes, not just code dumps JavaScript Troubleshooting, Async bugs, memory leaks, and edge cases U

Federico Carrasco
Jul 292 min read


Claude is, by far, my top go-to legal LLM companion
I ran another real-world legal contract creation test: 5 LLMs, multiple source reference documents, and one objective: 👉 create a complete business contract. As an AI professional, I intentionally explore use cases outside my own areas of expertise. This is the best way to evaluate the true value proposition of these tools and understand where they can genuinely transform the way businesses operate. This time, I provided four reference documents covering: 📌 Technical speci

Federico Carrasco
Jul 151 min read


Are we preserving human freedom, or are we engineering a digital aquarium of total surveillance?
I recently joined Giorgos Sachinis on Antithesis at ΚΡΗΤΗ TV to unpack the quiet rise of digital authoritarianism and how unchecked tech is reshaping our society. We dived deep into the systemic risks of AI, surveillance, and power concentration. Here are the core takeaways from our discussion: 👁️ The Illusion of Freedom: Society increasingly resembles a digital aquarium, we feel free, but our behaviors, choices, and data are constantly steered by invisible algorithms and te

Federico Carrasco
Jun 251 min read


The Illusion of European Defense: Why a Million Copycat Drones Won’t Save the Continent
David Heinemeier Hansson's recent LinkedIn post highlighted a stark reality: Europe is scrambling to wake up from decades of "naive pacifism." He announced his investment in the Danish startup Upteko, drawing parallels to Palmer Luckey’s Anduril in the United States. But David’s post exposes a much deeper, structural vulnerability. When even Denmark, traditionally one of the most peaceful nations on earth, starts pivoting tech capital into building quadcopters, it signals pan

Federico Carrasco
Jun 224 min read
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