Author Archives: Vijay Vijayasankar

When an enterprise giant falls, the post-mortem almost always blames a lack of vision. We love the story of clueless executives ignoring the future. It’s comforting. If failure is just a lack of foresight, the fix is easy: hire better consultants, buy clearer forecasts, and hold better offsites. Except it’s rarely true. Blockbuster didn’t ignoreContinue reading “The Strategy Isn’t Wrong. The Clock Is.”

When Products Become Politics When Washington accused Beijing-based Moonshot AI of illicitly extracting intelligence from Anthropic’s flagship model to train its open-weights architecture, much of the commentary treated it like an operational detective story. The analysis fixated on technical mechanics: proxy networks, server routing, and API terms. These specifics miss the underlying system at work.Continue reading “The Final Moat Is Permission”

Every major technology platform ultimately optimizes for the platform. No single platform can optimize simultaneously for every organization’s definition of acceptable risk. Cloud providers optimize for provider-wide liability, brand safety, and regulatory surface area across billions of public queries. Enterprise infrastructure must optimize for domain-specific execution, contextual compliance, and operational resilience under stress. As artificialContinue reading “Who Governs Intelligence?”