Inside Software: The AI Refactor: A CEO’s Plan for a Software Company
September 20, 2026 Every other week we’ll provide updates on the latest value levers and trends operators are asking us about in Technology and Software. If there are things you want to hear more about – shoot us a note. We have spent the past year taking apart the software company. We wrote about how to build an AI product that stays differentiated, how to monetize AI, how to use M&A to move faster, how to redesign the SDLC, how Customer Success needs to change, and how to manage cloud and token costs. We also wrote about how all of this ultimately shows up in valuation and the Rule of 40. Each … Continue reading Inside Software: The AI Refactor: A CEO’s Plan for a Software Company
Today Insight reveals the secret operation that has plunged the SAS into crisis.
Gabriel Pogrund, Insight Editor, Venetia Menzies, Insight Investigations Correspondent, and Emanuele Midolo, Insight Investigations Correspondent Saturday October 17 2026, 6.20pm BST, The Sunday Times Listen • 2:45 minShareSave Today Insight reveals the secret operation that has plunged the SAS into crisis. Here is what you need to know: Five elite members of the Special Air Service (SAS) faced a three-year murder investigation after shooting two individuals, who turned out to be teenagers working for Isis, during a midnight raid in Syria in July 2022. The soldiers maintained they acted in self-defence as they had heard incoming fire and told the enemy to surrender to no avail, … Continue reading Today Insight reveals the secret operation that has plunged the SAS into crisis.
Putin can subvert the West because we have lost our moral purpose
“This is a more complicated political puzzle than it appears because it occurs at a time when the circumstances of life in the United States have become more disappointing – for reasons which most voters find inexplicable – than could have been imagined at the time when Soviet Communism collapsed. The tolerance of Trump’s extraordinary abuse of power has as much to do with what I would call the Great Disillusionment – the collapse of the post-Cold War dream of a new world order based on personal liberty – as on anything he may claim to have done. Instead of … Continue reading Putin can subvert the West because we have lost our moral purpose
The wrong prescription for liberal democracy’s ills
Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu’s call for a ‘working-class liberalism’ fails to address the underlying cause of liberal democracy’s woes: a lack of productivity. ~MARC LEVINSON SEPTEMBER 25, 2026~ Empty highway in the direction of Munich on a car-free Sunday during the oil crisis. What Happened to Liberal Democracy? Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity, Daron Acemoglu, Profile Books, £25 With a congressional election looming in November, Sarah Longwell, an American political consultant who is a voice for Republican opponents of Donald Trump, recently offered some unwelcome advice. Those who hope to deprive the president of his congressional majority, she … Continue reading The wrong prescription for liberal democracy’s ills
Populists Are Losing Their War on Globalization
Summarize A decade after Brexit and Trump’s election, the global economy is more integrated than it was before the populist backlash began. Shawn DonnanOctober 9, 2026 at 12:30 AM EDT llustration: Iman Raad for Bloomberg The populist revolution in the Anglo world is about to turn 10, as we near a decade since the US election of Donald Trump. And the world hasn’t been quite the same since. The rise of the populists that started in June 2016, with the UK’s rebellion against its European Union-hugging elites and a vote for Brexit, was supposed to hasten the death of … Continue reading Populists Are Losing Their War on Globalization
Kate Forbes: SNP can no longer afford to duck the defence debate
Summarize Kate ForbesSaturday October 10 2026, 8.24pm BST, The Sunday Times With warnings over Russia growing louder, Scotland must use its industrial strengths and confront hard questions on military readiness and nuclear deterrence Saturday October 10 2026, 8.24pm BST, “When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today.” Those words are inscribed on the Kohima war memorial — the scene of one of the bloodiest engagements of the Second World War where the Allied forces halted the Japanese invasion of India. The memorial is dedicated to the soldiers of the 2nd British Division, including the Cameron Highlanders. The … Continue reading Kate Forbes: SNP can no longer afford to duck the defence debate
Deep Dive Abdul Malik al Houthi
Abdul Malik al-Houthi had never met an international diplomat as he waited patiently outside his modest house in Yemen’s isolated north. It was April 2011, as Yemen was on the brink of all-out civil war with anti-government protests spreading across the Middle East. The United Nations envoy to the country at the time, Jamal Benomar, eventually arrived to meet the little-known commander of the Houthis, dismissed by many as ragtag militia. “The guy you meet is a gentleman, speaks with a soft voice, extremely polite,” recalled Benomar, who said he was the only diplomat known to have met al-Houthi in person. Fifteen years later, he … Continue reading Deep Dive Abdul Malik al Houthi
“James Marriott
“James Marriott Monday October 5 2026, 7.54pm, The TimesTucker Carlson’s viral YouTube debate with Jacob Rees-Mogg — recommended to anyone looking for an entirely unedifying way to spend an hour online — pitted two styles of eccentric conservatism against each other. Rees-Mogg’s pantomime of establishment hauteur (enhanced by the interview’s “at home” setting, with its pink damask wallpaper, porcelain objets and gilt picture frames) versus the smarmy country club conspiracism that has made #Carlson one of the most popular broadcasters in America. The encounter will remind viewers how much stranger right-wing politics has grown over the past decade. Rees-Mogg was … Continue reading “James Marriott
The Real Measure of an AI Factory: Productive Intelligence at Scale
Summarize By Chris Kawalek, Director of Product Marketing, NVIDIA Enterprises are putting AI to work in products and services, software development and business operations. According to a Gartner® survey, “75% of survey respondents said they were piloting, were deploying or had already deployed some form of AI agents into their organization.”1 AI has become a day-to-day resource that companies must manage effectively. Many are turning to AI factories: specialized production environments for intelligence. Like other factories, they transform raw materials—energy and data—into useful output. Their success depends on five interdependent layers: energy, chips, infrastructure, models and applications. Build the AI Factory … Continue reading The Real Measure of an AI Factory: Productive Intelligence at Scale
