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GPT-5.5 Released. Brooklyn Tiki Bar Reports Normal Operations.

Inside Barnum's tent today, ten thousand newsletters declared a step change. At Sunken Harbor Club in downtown Brooklyn, Martin Cate poured Denizen Rum for thirty-five strangers who took trains in from three states. Mai Tais were stirred. Cancer remained uncured. Microsoft will outspend the NIH on data centers by two-to-one this year. Pufferfish lamps are still 100 percent operational.

Harry DeMott, +1

Apr 24, 2026

Brutalist

Google's ugly, engineer-first products don't win because they're better. They win because they're the substrate everyone else builds on — including Apple's iPhone, which Google pays more than twenty billion dollars a year to rent. This week Google wrote the biggest cybersecurity check in history, closed a billion-dollar deal with Merck, and pulled Sergey Brin out of retirement to fix the one place the brutalist strategy keeps tripping.

Harry DeMott, +1

Apr 23, 2026

Back In the Game

SpaceX just bought twelve months of exclusivity on Cursor for $10 billion. OpenAI swept the image leaderboard by 242 points. And the lab that's spent six months lecturing Washington on AI safety just lost control of its most dangerous model. The coronation is off.

Harry DeMott, +1

Apr 22, 2026

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