Speed without recoverability is theater. My job is to make sure we can ship fast and back out of a bad change at machine speed, any day the cloud blinks. Let me ground this in a fresh scar everyone felt on a typical Wednesday. On October 29, 2025, one configuration push to Azure Front Door…

Jensen Huang has the cleanest frame for what’s happening in AI right now: accelerated computing. Not “a brand-new creature,” not “alien intelligence,” just computing that’s been radically sped up and scaled out. If you want the long form, his recent BG2 episode is a masterclass on how this changes strategy, infrastructure, and the shape of…

What’s the secret to scaling a company in 2025? Here’s a hint: it’s not just hiring more people. In a world where AI can massively amplify output, businesses are discovering they can achieve “10X” growth without a proportional increase in headcount. In fact, 57% of companies are investing in AI specifically to increase employee output…

Mark Aklian is Chiri’s Chief Information Security Officer and has vast senior security experience including Point72, Bank of America, and many more. Having curated and battle-tested this checklist for over a year, it’s grown from a simple review aid into a board-ready framework I use with our clients, product teams, vendors, and red-team exercises. It’s…

If you’re in private equity, you have a well-oiled machine for value creation. You pull the levers of financial engineering, operational improvements, and strategic M&A with ruthless efficiency. Now, there’s a powerful new lever to pull, one with the potential to multiply EBITDA across your entire portfolio: artificial intelligence. But let’s be honest. For many…

In today’s business landscape, size matters less than ever, it’s all about leverage. Artificial intelligence has become the great equalizer, enabling nimble startups to compete with industry giants. In fact, 83% of companies now rank AI as a top strategic priority, recognizing its power to multiply individual and team output. And this isn’t just corporate…

Mark Aklian is the Head of Security at Chiri. In Michael Lewis’s Flash Boys, he chronicled the high-frequency trading boom of the 2010s, a world where milliseconds meant millions. I lived that world firsthand. My role was designing low-latency networks and precision-tuning Linux kernels to squeeze every microsecond out of hardware and software. The goal…

According to Fortune, a new MIT study found that for “95% of companies in the dataset, generative AI implementation is falling short. The core issue? Not the quality of the AI models, but the “learning gap” for both tools and organizations. While executives often blame regulation or model performance, MIT’s research points to flawed enterprise…

Every week brings a shiny new AI tool, and leaders feel pressure to try them all. Sound familiar? Many organizations have rushed into AI pilot projects only to end up with a graveyard of half-implemented demos. In fact, up to 85% of AI projects never make it past the pilot stage. The winners in this…