Carlos Granier

The Kill Switch Was the Preview

A federal export-control directive switched off the two best AI models in the world. A service has a kill switch; a file doesn't — and that difference is why the fight over open weights turns vicious.

At the Vatican, the Speech Said More Than the Paper

At the Vatican, an Anthropic co-founder's speech said more than the research beneath it — the gap between the careful paper and the confident cathedral is a compression worth refusing.

The Most Useful Page in My Second Brain is a Catalog of What I Refuse to Read

The most useful page in my second brain isn't a record of what I've kept — it's a record of what I've decided to refuse, named once and reused.

Five Machine Learning Projects I Wanted to Work On — and What Actually Happened

In 2017 I published a wishlist of ML problems I wanted to tackle. Nine years later, here's the honest scorecard — what I built, what the market solved for me, and why the bottleneck has shifted from building to knowing what to build.

The 2026 AI Infrastructure Supercycle: What You Need to Know Now

A strategic intelligence brief on the 2026 AI infrastructure buildout — covering silicon acceleration, $700B in hyperscaler CapEx, the nuclear energy pivot, regulatory risk, and Thailand's emergence as Southeast Asia's dominant digital hub.

The AI Factory: A 2024–2025 Overview of AI-Optimized Data Centers and the Colossus Archetype

An analysis of the technical, financial, and environmental dimensions of the AI Factory era — anchored by a deep dive into xAI's Colossus supercomputer as the defining archetype of 2024–2025 AI infrastructure.

Migrating my WordPress blog to Astro

Guide to migrating a WordPress blog to Astro, including theme modifications, image handling, and deployment steps.

Five Machine Learning Projects I Want to Be Working On Now

A wishlist of five ML problems I wanted to tackle in 2017 — from analyzing 17,000 hours of video to building recommendation engines and cracking subscriber funnels.

Thoughts on Twitter Censorship

Twitter's move may open the door for more transparency in modern democracies; what it will do for those countries were freedom of speech really needs a helping hand remains to be seen.

Let me show you how French Coffee makes your brain happier (and other statistical lies)

Google TV is coming (and we told you so)

In April, 2006, I wrote: "Google is also making inroads into the set-top box business, hoping to bring television media straight into your television (whether it's in your living room or your mobile phone)." Today, Google is finally announcing Google TV.

How to Make Money With Digital Media

The first question that comes out of any Media Executive when I mention New Media is 'How will we make money?' To which I always answer 'How will you make money without new media?' However, they make a valid point: this is a business and if we can't make money at it then we should be doing something else. So let's try and figure out what it takes to make money online with your content.

5 Mindset Shifts Every Media Executive Needs to Make

Media executives thinking about distributing their content online (and they all should) need to make important mindset shifts in order to understand what the digital revolution is all about, how it affects their business and what benefits it can bring to their operation. I've outlined five mindset shifts every media executive needs to make.

How companies that learn will take your lunch money

5 Observations on the State of Digital Media

Variety: RCTV's "El Señor Presidente" film challenges Chavez

NBC Drops YouTube

Information Dashboard Nirvana

NBC and CBS Neck-and-Neck on YouTube ratings

According to the latest YouTube stats, NBC has caught up with CBS on total daily page views (*) at YouTube.

Will erinMedia Topple Nielsen?

Upstart media-research company erinMedia takes on ratings giant Nielsen.

Analyzing the CBS YouTube Stats

An analysis of CBS's first month on YouTube, including an investigation on the viral growth of several CBS shows.

Blast From the Past - Multidimensional Data Analysis

About eight years ago, I was analyzing television ratings at a leading network in Venezuela... when I came up with the following graph (see below). Rendering took forever in Excel, but the resulting image was not only beautiful, but highly informative . Have a look.

The Advertiser's Dilemma

As an advertiser, you'd want to optimize your purchases. But by the time you can tell a video is a runaway hit, you've not only probably lost the majority of your potential audience, but you'll also have to pay a premium to advertise on that now world famous video.

Rethinking Ratings

An analysis of current television ratings methods, why they're inappropriate for the timeless internet and digital video recorder era, and suggestions for improving them.

Google Buys YouTube for US$1.65 Billion in Stock

Why Google Should Buy YouTube

Case Study: NBC's Heroes

Heroes offers a great many opportunities for Digital Media Integration. Is NBC taking advantage of them?

Can Google News (or ESPN) predict the future?