Stories by latentframe

Germany's €100B bid to make the trains run on time

IMF warns inflation risks remain elevated ahead of Fed meeting

2025 Social Security Trustees Report [pdf]

The free-money era subsidized your salary, not just startup valuations

Demographics may be breaking traditional labor market signals

AI Is Starting to Hit Power Grid Limits

Software supply-chain attacks are no longer rare events

AI may be inflationary before it becomes productive

The Fed cut rates by 100 bps in late 2024. Mortgage rates rose anyway

The era of free money may have ended

IEA: AI data center electricity demand could nearly double by 2030

IMF: Fiscal Policy Under Pressure – High Debt, Rising Risks [pdf]

Madrid Built Its Metro Cheaply

US economy expected to grow above 2% despite recent shocks

Replacing labor with AI shifts costs to compute – and compute is still expensive

Scaleway raises cloud prices after 3 years of absorbing costs

US power demand to reach record highs in 2026–2027 driven by AI and data centers

US recession probabilities implied by the yield curve

Global imbalances are back with no clear path to resolution

Scaling AI is now constrained by energy, cooling and physics