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Three we would put in front of anyone first. Everything else follows below, newest first.
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Yahoo Finance · 2026-09
Adrian Balfour with Elizabeth Gore on Yahoo Finance’s Big Idea: from herding sheep in rural Ireland and bootstrapping PCubed without venture capital, to co-founding Major League Rugby and the Seattle Seawolves, to building AI at Envorso and Empwr.ai.
Article
LinkedIn · 2026-06
Why software recalls are rarely a coding problem: the faults start in requirements, architecture, interfaces and team handoffs, so the fix is systems engineering, end-to-end traceability and earlier integration — not more software testing.
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LinkedIn · 2026-07
Agile teams, big-bang releases: software-defined products slide back to milestone delivery unless the architecture, integration model, organization and release mechanics change too, so the software can evolve continuously.
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Benzinga · 2026-10
Todd Warren on why capping H-1B visas pushes companies to look offshore, and sends people educated in the U.S. home instead of into the American workforce.
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Yahoo Finance · 2026-10
Adrian Balfour with Elizabeth Gore on The Big Idea: bringing a tech founder’s playbook to rebuilding wool processing in the United States.
Article
CIO Dive · 2026-09
AI is retracing Agile’s path from breakthrough to empty label. Stop counting seats and logins; measure cycle time, cost per unit of work and quality, or you have a pilot, not a result.
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Investor’s Business Daily · 2026-09
Florian Frischmuth on what matters in Tesla’s Cybercab launch: not the demonstration itself, but the operational maturity behind it.
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Yahoo Finance · 2026-09
Florian Frischmuth on Tesla’s cameras-and-compute approach against Waymo’s sensor suite, and why, if it proves reliable, it could change the economics of autonomous transport.
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Investor’s Business Daily · 2026-09
Adrian Balfour and Todd Warren with Investor’s Business Daily on connected experiences in cars and why carmakers are turning to generative AI.
Article
Security Point Break · 2026-07
Why the Claude incident reads as an operational containment failure rather than a model-design flaw: the agent was executing its task aggressively while mistaken about where the simulation ended. The controls, not the model, are the gap.
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The Information · 2026-07
Adrian Balfour on four engineers who used Claude Code to build an app that replaced Salesforce’s CRM in four months, and what that means for SaaS vendors.
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Agence France-Presse (via Barron’s) · 2026-05
After the initial adoption rush, companies are balking at what AI actually costs — and pushing back on how vendors price it.
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Bloomberg Opinion · 2026-05
The Pope’s intervention on AI and robotics puts human work, rather than humanoid capability, at the centre of the debate about what automation is for.
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MarketWatch · 2026-05
Ford leads the S&P 500 as it borrows from Tesla’s playbook — the market rewarding a software-and-margin story rather than volume.
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Yahoo Finance · 2026-05
Why Tesla’s camera-first robotaxi stack beats Waymo’s lidar on unit economics: cameras as weak eyes plus heavy AI processing put a $30,000 vehicle against a $150,000 one, and cost per mile decides who scales.
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The Information · 2026-04
Atlassian and HubSpot move away from flat-fee AI pricing, joining the wider shift toward usage- and outcome-based models.
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MarketWatch · 2026-04
Tesla’s energy storage business is small next to automotive, but growing fast enough to change the earnings story.
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Enterprise Management 360 · 2026-04
Energy storage is cushioning Tesla but is not yet large enough to offset both the credit cliff and automotive margin erosion — the trajectory is encouraging, the magnitude is not.
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Reuters · 2026-04
Ahead of earnings: whether Tesla’s energy storage division can pick up the slack as automotive margins drop and regulatory credits fade.
Podcast
PureLogics · 2026-04
Why the startups that succeed are usually built on the wreckage of ones that failed first, and what founders should take from the graveyard.
Article
The New York Times · 2026-03
Ford and GM face a dilemma as Chinese manufacturers pull ahead on electric vehicles and self-driving: match the pace, or cede the segment.
Panel
Automotive Computing Conference US 2026 · 2026-03
Florian Frischmuth on standardizing vehicle software platforms: speed through a committed core, open versus closed source, and where value will shift in the chain.
Article
Automotive News · 2026-02
Automakers are moving into humanoid robotics, betting that factory manufacturing know-how converts into an adjacent market worth a trillion dollars.
Podcast
The Investor With Joel Palathinkal · 2026-02
Building an engineering advisory business around physical AI: what Envorso and Empwr.AI were founded to solve, and where the investable opportunity sits.
Article
The Detroit News · 2026-02
What Tesla customers make of the Model S being retired and the Optimus robot taking its place at the centre of the company’s story.
Podcast
Bloomberg Radio · 2025-12
Where technology, AI and EV strategy converge for legacy automakers, and what that convergence demands of them.
Article
BetaNews · 2025-12
Cybersecurity predictions for 2026: AI systems themselves become the target, web-based attacks widen, and deepfakes move from novelty to standard tooling.
Podcast
Reimagining Cyber · 2025-12
Organisations are accumulating governance debt on AI — no inventory, no audit trail, no observability. What to put in place before the EU AI Act and Colorado penalties land.
Article
The New York Times · 2025-12
Rolling back fuel-economy rules returns gasoline to the centre of US car policy, and changes the arithmetic of the EV transition for every manufacturer.
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CNBC · 2025-12
Peter Abowd on why traditional U.S. carmakers have struggled to understand software and electronics, and the “parade of experts” that has followed.
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Automotive News · 2025-11
If Western carmakers, suppliers and tech firms shared a software platform, Android-style, they could put their effort into features customers want and keep pace with competitors in the East.
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Forbes · 2025-11
Software recalls near a record for the sixth year running; if the safety case does not spark change, the economics should — $661 a vehicle handed to a competitor.
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Forbes · 2025-11
Is the 2025 automotive job market a buyer’s or a seller’s? Steve Tengler on where the power is shifting between employers and candidates.
Talk
AI Realized Summit · 2025-11
Ken Johnston among enterprise leaders sharing how they have delivered AI products that actually work.
Panel
TDWI Data & AI Leaders Summit, Orlando · 2025-11
Ken Johnston on how AI leaders move from ambition to action, and on building and governing enterprise AI on sound data foundations.
Article
CleanTechnica · 2025-10
Tesla does not need a constant redesign cycle: a high-margin, no-frills product kept current over the air is a fundamentally different competitive model from annual model-year refreshes.
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Reuters · 2025-10
Tesla’s bet that launching new models no longer matters — and what that gamble depends on continuing to hold true.
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Reworked · 2025-10
Hybrid human-and-agent teams are where collaboration and project management software converge. AI absorbs the coordination role, but training and compliance costs keep adoption slower than the tooling implies.
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Autoblog · 2025-10
Whether a cheaper Model Y is enough to reverse Tesla’s sales decline, or whether the problem sits further upstream than price.
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Reuters · 2025-10
Industry reaction to Tesla’s cheaper Model Y and Model 3: whether stripping cost out defends share or dilutes the brand.
Podcast
Bloomberg Radio · 2025-10
EV demand, AI in the vehicle, and where legacy carmakers are misreading what customers actually want from software.
Article
Los Angeles Times · 2025-10
Tesla sales rose 7% as buyers rushed to beat the expiry of EV incentives — a pull-forward of demand rather than a change in trend.
Article
Benzinga · 2025-09
Three stocks positioned to benefit as autonomous vehicles move from pilot programmes onto public roads, and why the picks are not the obvious ones.
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ArenaEV · 2025-08
Stellantis shelving eyes-off driving is a supplier-relationship problem as much as a technology one: automakers cannot fund every advanced capability alone, and are restructuring who carries the risk.
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Road & Track · 2025-08
Stellantis reportedly shelves its Level 3 AutoDrive programme, stepping back from hands-off, eyes-off autonomy.
Article
Reuters · 2025-08
Stellantis shelves its Level 3 driver-assistance programme as it scales back software ambitions — the cost and demand case did not hold.
Interview
Brighter with Herbert · 2025-08
A blunt warning to legacy automakers about what has to change now — and how little time is left in which to change it.
Video
The Laffer Tengler Take · 2025-08
Why Tesla and Rivian sit differently from the rest of the industry, and what that difference means for who survives the transition.
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Yahoo Finance · 2025-06
The robotaxi launch is the point Tesla becomes a technology company: two million cars already gathering road data is the asset competitors still building software-defined platforms cannot match.
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Schwab Network · 2025-06
The robotaxi rollout drew less hype than expected — why the long-term positioning still looks strong, and where legislation caps the addressable market.
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Yahoo Finance · 2025-06
Waymo closes its data gaps with more sensors per vehicle; Tesla closes them with more vehicles. Two opposing data strategies — and safety validation is the gate both have to clear.
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Austin American-Statesman · 2025-06
Activists tested Tesla’s self-driving software against a child-sized dummy, putting the question of how autonomy gets validated squarely in public view.
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Forbes · 2025-05
Which vehicle can you trust with your data and safety? Steve Tengler on how to parse the evidence before making a buying decision.
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