
One Person Ran This for 13 Years. Nobody Had a Backup Plan.
SteamDB's founder searched for a buyer for eight months before selling to Nexus Mods. The real lesson is not the deal, it is who else is one burnout away from your workflow breaking.

SteamDB's founder searched for a buyer for eight months before selling to Nexus Mods. The real lesson is not the deal, it is who else is one burnout away from your workflow breaking.

OpenAI announced GPT-6 Astra on September 3 as available now, then apologized when paying subscribers found they had no access at all.

Matt Clifford wrote the UK's AI Growth Zones policy, then joined Anthropic and kept his ARIA chair - a lesson in vetting advisers before recommendations become policy.

A cooling failure at Proton's Frankfurt data center knocked out Mail, Drive and Calendar twice in five days, exposing the same single-site risk EU sovereignty was supposed to fix.

A single misconfigured authentication component knocked out ten Microsoft 365 services on August 31, 2026 - the fourth such outage this year.

Meta bought Manus, then China's NDRC unwound the deal in April 2026 using security-review powers. What that means for EU and UK cross-border tech M&A.

Uber is cutting 3,300 management jobs while hiring 500+ engineers for robotaxis. The decision risk EU/UK leaders should study before copying it.

Italy's top administrative court upheld the annulment of a EUR61.2 million quantum-computer tender, over a deadline extended by hours, not the technology.

Bitkom and the BfV found 37% of hit German firms now trace an attack to a foreign intelligence service, up from 7% in 2023, a fivefold rise in three years.

Nvidia trimmed its floated $250 billion OpenAI data-center guarantee to under $120 billion after investor pushback, even as Anthropic's revenue nearly tripled. The decision lesson for any buyer trusting a vendor's headline number.

Apple's stock fell over 6 percent when Jobs quit in 2011 and roughly 0.5 percent when Cook's exit was announced in 2026. The gap is a lesson in how to run any handover.

Glassdoor's own review data says the workers most positive about AI at work are Gen X, not Gen Z. The gap changes who should actually lead a rollout.
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