Ashish Bhatia
Writing

Everything I've written.

Upgraded SecondBrain Setup

Local agent wiki

Aug 31, 20262 min
essay
Upgraded SecondBrain Setup

Why Nvidia Is Building Data Centers, Not Just The Chips Inside Them

Jensen Huang isn't just selling chips anymore — he's positioning Nvidia to offer hardware, software, and networking under one roof, so it captures more of every dollar a data center spends.

Aug 20, 20265 min
forbes
Why Nvidia Is Building Data Centers, Not Just The Chips Inside Them

OpenAI Paused AI Training For Two Weeks After A Cybersecurity Breach

After its models escaped a controlled test environment and breached Hugging Face and four other services, OpenAI halted major training runs for two weeks and flagged its unreleased Astra model as a 'Critical' security risk.

Aug 19, 20265 min
forbes
OpenAI Paused AI Training For Two Weeks After A Cybersecurity Breach

The Ant Mindset

Forget the ant-and-grasshopper cliché about working hard in a crisis — the real lesson is what you do when things are calm and no one's watching.

Aug 11, 20268 min
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The Ant Mindset

Google Should Open-Weight A Frontier Gemini Model

With Noam Shazeer and John Jumper gone to rivals and Chinese labs controlling most open-weight usage, Google's fastest way back into the lead is a playbook it already knows: open source.

Aug 11, 20266 min
forbes
Google Should Open-Weight A Frontier Gemini Model

The China AI Thesis: Why AI Is Now A US-China Duopoly, Not One Race

AI competition isn't a single race with one winner. It's a portfolio contest across energy, chips, models, and cloud — and China is closing the gap faster than expected.

Aug 4, 20266 min
forbes
The China AI Thesis: Why AI Is Now A US-China Duopoly, Not One Race

OpenAI And Anthropic's July Breaches Revive The Paperclip Maximizer

Two July incidents look like the start of Bostrom's nightmare scenario — until you notice what's actually missing from both: any evidence of a model pursuing a goal of its own.

Aug 1, 20265 min
forbes
OpenAI And Anthropic's July Breaches Revive The Paperclip Maximizer

Sam Altman Says We're In The Singularity. Is He Right?

What the singularity actually means, and what the evidence for Altman's claim looks like

Jul 30, 20262 min
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Sam Altman Says We're In The Singularity. Is He Right?

America Cannot Regulate Its Way Into Building A Dominant AI Ecosystem

My latest for Forbes: the coalition trying to stop Washington from regulating open-weight AI out of existence.

Jul 26, 20261 min
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America Cannot Regulate Its Way Into Building A Dominant AI Ecosystem

We Are Sleepwalking Into the Age of Rented Intelligence

When Anthropic announced @Claude Tag in Slack, most people had one reaction: “Cool.

Jul 1, 202613 min
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We Are Sleepwalking Into the Age of Rented Intelligence

AI Pricing Is Forking. Enterprises Need to Recalibrate to the New Meter.

The first phase of enterprise AI was about adoption: get the tools into everyone’s hands and watch what happens.

Jun 21, 202613 min
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AI Pricing Is Forking. Enterprises Need to Recalibrate to the New Meter.

From Tokenmaxing to Tokenomics

Enterprises spent the last two years getting everyone into the AI tent.

Jun 18, 202611 min
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From Tokenmaxing to Tokenomics

The Harvest

Eight interview rounds, fifty-nine days, and an offer that let me stay in Cambridge instead of uprooting my family — how the search finally paid off.

May 15, 20266 min
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The Harvest

The Rebound

Nineteen years without an external interview, and a recruiter's blunt feedback that forced me to rebuild my search from scratch — with help I didn't expect to need.

May 14, 20268 min
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The Rebound

The 120-Day Clock

On an H-1B visa, a layoff isn't just a career setback — it's a countdown. What 120 days on a post-it note taught me about hope and rejection.

May 13, 20269 min
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The 120-Day Clock

De-Hyphenating Myself

The day Microsoft eliminated my role after eleven years, and the LinkedIn post that started the real work of finding out who I am without a company name attached.

May 12, 20265 min
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De-Hyphenating Myself

My Implementation of Karpathy's LLM Wiki Pattern — Two Files You Can Reuse

Brainchild of Andrej Karpathy

Apr 16, 202622 min
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My Implementation of Karpathy's LLM Wiki Pattern — Two Files You Can Reuse

The Shifting Bottleneck: Human-in-the-Loop Was Always Temporary

When generative AI started making its way into enterprise workflows, the industry rallied around a reassuring narrative: humans must stay in the loop.

Apr 15, 20266 min
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The Shifting Bottleneck: Human-in-the-Loop Was Always Temporary

Compute Is the New Oil, and It Won't Be Distributed Equally

Elon's announcement of Terafab is a story of an unfathomable scale.

Apr 9, 20265 min
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Compute Is the New Oil, and It Won't Be Distributed Equally

Mythos: Code Red for the Internet

When I read that Anthropic's AI had found 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox in two weeks, including 14 classified as high-severity, I stood up from my chair.

Apr 8, 20268 min
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Mythos: Code Red for the Internet

Capital Substitution of Labor

Thirty thousand people started Tuesday morning like any other.

Apr 3, 20264 min
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Capital Substitution of Labor

The OpenClaw Moment: What It Means for Enterprises

Once you see what genuinely capable AI agents can do, you can’t unsee it.

Mar 27, 20268 min
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The OpenClaw Moment: What It Means for Enterprises

OpenClaw: Personal AI Operating System

We’ve seen four major step changes in AI over the last four years.

Mar 25, 20267 min
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OpenClaw: Personal AI Operating System

OpenClaw phenomena - the 4th Exponent

We’ve seen this happen three times.

Mar 24, 20266 min
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OpenClaw phenomena - the 4th Exponent
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