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Debates

The arguments shaping technology

Go beyond the headline. Explore the business models, competitive tensions and structural shifts behind the technology market.

01

AI platforms

OpenAI: the platform behind ChatGPT

The business model behind ChatGPT, its distribution advantage and the competition to own the AI interface.

02

Software economics

AI is not killing software. It is moving the toll booth

As agents change how software is bought and used, which companies retain the ability to charge?

03

Agents & security

The Hugging Face incident: how agentic AI escaped the sandbox

What the Hugging Face incident reveals about execution boundaries, trust and agent permissions.

04

Cybersecurity competition

The AI-security land grab: where CrowdStrike, Zscaler, Rubrik and the rest really sit

Where security vendors compete for control as enterprise AI moves into production.

05

AI & vulnerability research

The zero-day deluge: can defenders patch faster than AI can find?

The race between automated vulnerability discovery and the capacity to remediate it.

06

Models & market structure

The debate on model commoditisation and open weights

How model commoditisation and open weights could redistribute value across the AI industry.