Important Notes: This article is a technical and educational demonstration of how a piece of software works. It is not investment advice, not a recommendation, and not a view on any security. Any company or data shown is illustrative only. See the full disclaimer at the end. A number of my friends in the investment community keep asking me a version of the same question. And it usually starts with a complaint. The hard part of investing today is not forming opinions. It is th

A few days ago, Google quietly released something that I think most people walked past without fully understanding what just happened. It is called Gemma 4 . ( https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/core/model_card_4 ) It is a family of small AI models — and the smallest one, the E2B, is just over 3 gigabytes. Roughly the size of a movie you download for a long flight. Moreover, it can interpret images and support 140 languages. That may not sound dramatic. But let me tell you wha

A few weeks ago, I wrote about an experiment — running AI locally on your own notebook to analyse spreadsheet data. The response from readers was clear: this is useful, but can you make it easier to use? So I did. Today I am releasing the Spreadsheet AI Analyzer as a proper Mac application. Not a Python script. Not a terminal command. A real .dmg file — drag it to your Applications folder, double-click, and start asking questions about your data in plain English. Why This Ma

For so many years, we used to dream of having a supercomputer on a single desk. Today, that dream isn’t futuristic — it’s our working reality . We are living through what I call the Desktop Renaissance , where the most advanced Artificial Intelligence doesn’t live in some distant cloud — it lives in your pocket and on your laptop. ( jacklaublog ) Meet the New Titans: Qwen 3.5, DeepSeek-V3, and Llama 4 The pace of change in AI is staggering. If you haven’t explored the Ollam