A curated briefing on technology, business, and culture — written for people who value their time.
Every major tech company is burning cash on inference. We break down where the money is actually going and what it means for the next wave of startups.
Read Issue →DeepSeek, Mistral, Meta's Llama. The tide has shifted. Here's why the open model ecosystem is outrunning closed labs on nearly every benchmark that matters.
Read Issue →Annual contracts are getting shorter. Usage-based is becoming the norm. What happens to the software business model when AI can replicate a $500/month tool overnight?
Read Issue →Autonomous agents can browse, code, and book flights. But adoption is still tepid. We look at what's holding enterprises back and who's actually deploying at scale.
Read Issue →Newsletter opens are up. Social media engagement is down. Readers are actively curating. What it means for anyone building an audience in 2025.
Read Issue →Robots, chips, satellites, energy. Capital is flowing back into atoms. A look at the hardware renaissance and the investors quietly betting billions on it.
Read Issue →Hi — I'm Alex Morgan. I spent nearly a decade working at the intersection of technology and capital markets before deciding I'd rather write about it than trade it.
The Brief started as a Saturday morning ritual — a note to a handful of friends summarizing what I'd read that week. Three years later, it lands in 12,000 inboxes every morning. I'm still not entirely sure how that happened.
My goal is simple: no noise, no fluff, no engagement bait. Every issue is written by a human who's actually read the source material, talked to people in the room, and has something real to say about it. I write the way I want to be written to.
The Brief covers technology, business, and culture — with an honest acknowledgment that these three things have become essentially the same thing. If you want algorithmic summaries, there are hundreds of tools for that. If you want a point of view, you're in the right place.
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