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Crypto’s Crossroads: Market Signal or Market Sideshow?
Crypto is evolving from a speculative sideshow into a systemically significant asset class—potentially serving as an early macro indicator—yet it…
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Doug Levin
AI CapEx and the Race to Build the Future
Massive capital spending on compute, energy, and infrastructure has transformed CapEx into the strategic engine of the AI economy, where owning and…
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Doug Levin
Why Enterprises Are Betting on Small Language Models
Small language models (SLMs) under 10B parameters are rapidly emerging as the enterprise favorite because they are faster and cheaper to build, deliver…
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Doug Levin
Best practices for writing regular communications using GenAI
My GenAI playbook includes eight prompts I use most, my best practices on structuring and iterating prompts, and my core belief that the real magic…
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Doug Levin
China Is Turning AI into Infrastructure. The U.S. Must Rethink the Game.
One sentence: China is turning AI into full-stack national infrastructure—spanning chips, cloud, data, talent, regulation, and export strategy—while the…
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Doug Levin
Antitrust in the Age of AI: Can Policy Keep Pace With Innovation?
A Georgetown panel unpacked how antitrust must evolve to curb “killer acquisitions,” protect open competition, and ensure the AI era doesn’t quietly…
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Doug Levin
Inside My Upcoming Congressional Briefing
Tech M&A in 2025 is rebounding in value and shifting toward innovation-driven, capability-focused deals—especially in AI, infrastructure, chips, cloud…
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Doug Levin
PMF Isn’t the Finish Line
Finding product-market fit isn’t the finish line—it’s the moment the real work begins, when founders must choose whether to grow into leaders capable of…
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Doug Levin
The Status of the Blockchain, 2025: From Speculation to Infrastructure
Blockchain has moved past its speculative phase into a more mature stage where real infrastructure, institutional adoption, and practical use cases are…
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Doug Levin
Massachusetts Leads the Nation in Startup IPO Probability
Massachusetts leads the nation in converting VC-backed startups into IPOs, outpacing California, which generates more unicorns but keeps them private…
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Doug Levin
The Coming Compute Glut and What Happens After the Data Center Boom
AI infrastructure is being built faster than near-term demand can absorb, echoing the late-1990s fiber overbuild, meaning today’s speculative rush in…
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Doug Levin
When Worlds Collide: Bridging the AI Culture Divide
The “AI Culture Clash” explores how the real challenge in AI transformation isn’t technical but cultural—bridging the gap between disciplines…
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