Malcolm Maxwell

The AI boom is starting to behave like a real industry: prices are falling, agents are gaining hands and occasionally exceeding their reach, and infrastructure commitments now run into the trillions. NakedAI looks at what's driving the shift, and why the scarce resource isn't intelligence anymore, it's governable machine agency.

Model prices fell, agentic systems started acting without adequate oversight, and the EU AI Act became enforceable, all in the same month. NakedAI's August Field Notes covers six developments driving the shift from AI experimentation to AI execution, and what it means for the decisions in front of your board.

The thing I'm thinking about at the moment is that the UAE in Dubai has just gone all in on AI. We're talking about running 20% of the country using AI in two years, and that is a very interesting area. The idea that you've got a state that integrates AI so deeply into it, and the fact that it's the UAE, which is a swing state, which is between China and the West. Everyone likes them. They've got a lot of oil, they're looking at hosting the oil world, and they are building data centres....