Category: Artificial Intelligence
Open Weights: Why Would Anyone Give Away the Most Expensive Part of an AI Model?
1. A strange thing is happening in AI There is something slightly strange happening in artificial intelligence. Companies are spending enormous amounts of money buying GPUs, building data centres, collecting data, employing researchers and training increasingly capable models. Training a serious frontier model is not like writing an ordinary piece of software. Much of the […]
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The AI Big Five: How Your Business Survives What Is Coming
I was in the Kruger Park recently, where everyone talks about the Big Five: lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo. They are the five animals everyone wants to see, and they are big, powerful and dangerous, built by evolution to survive in an environment that punishes weakness immediately and without appeal. It got me thinking […]
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AI and Organisational Design: When Capability Belongs to Opportunity and Purpose, Not the Org Chart
1. What I saw in Kruger I was walking through Kruger National Park recently when I noticed small pieces of metal sticking out of the ground, the remains of old fence posts. I asked the ranger what they were, and he explained that Kruger had not always been the enormous open ecosystem we see today. […]
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How to run Claude Code on OpenRouter with alternative models like DeepSeek: the ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL guide
1. Why this is worth being precise about Claude Code’s model can be changed through an environment variable, and that variable can point at a gateway such as OpenRouter rather than at Anthropic’s own API. This is how people run Claude Code against DeepSeek, GLM, or any other backend a gateway serves. The question comes […]
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Claude Code Without Model Lock In: Ghostty, OpenCode and OpenRouter
CloudScale AI SEO summary What this is: a practical build guide for running an OpenCode agent behind Ghostty, routed through OpenRouter, as an alternative to a single model coding agent such as Claude Code. Why it matters: token pricing across OpenRouter‘s catalogue varies by a factor of four to over a hundred for the same […]
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From Zero to Exploit Detection: A Practical Guide to Nuclei Templates for Pen Testing
Vulnerability scanning used to mean choosing between a handful of expensive commercial scanners or writing your own scripts for every check you cared about. Nuclei changed that calculation. It is an open source scanning engine built by ProjectDiscovery that runs YAML defined templates against targets, and the template library has grown into one of the […]
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The Universal Travel Adapter for AI, and Why OpenRouter Is So Cool
Anyone who has travelled with a laptop knows the ritual. You arrive somewhere new, you pull out your charger, and you discover that the wall has entirely different opinions about what a plug should look like. The device in your bag has not changed and the electricity coming out of the wall has not changed […]
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Finally, an AI That Understands Money, Part Three: Teaching It What Is Out of Character
Abnormal is always relative. An embedding computed in advance can hold an inbound payment before it arrives, and the same property explains where this approach fails. This is the last of three parts. Part one explains what Revolut’s PRAGMA is and how it works. Part two covers credit and financial inclusion. Where the first two […]
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Finally, an AI That Understands Money, Part Two: The Lending Market Hiding in Your Embeddings
Conventional lending has confused regularity with durability. An AI reading the transaction history directly measures what a payslip cannot, and in a market like South Africa that changes who is lendable at all. This is the second of three parts. Part one explains what Revolut’s PRAGMA is and how it works. Part three covers fraud, […]
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Finally, an AI That Understands Money, Part One: Inside Revolut’s Customer Embeddings
Revolut and NVIDIA have published the most detailed public account yet of an AI that learns a customer straight from their banking history. Part one covers what it is, how it works, and what the results actually prove. This is the first of three parts. Part two looks at what it means for credit and […]
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