2026 AI Predictions: Why Cost-Cutting Could Weaken Companies

More AI won't automatically create better businesses. Heading into 2026, many companies still run on two instincts: cut costs and avoid regulatory trouble. That mindset makes AI easy

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Jeremy Murray

27 May 2026 · 5 min read

UK/EU Data Sovereignity Focused | S3-Compatible Object Storage: Best Options Beyond AWS

Most object storage choices look different on the pricing page and strangely similar in production. The reason is simple: the interface most teams care about is still S3-compatible object storage.

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Jeremy Murray

9 May 2026 · 9 min read

TTFT Wars: GPU vs TPU vs LPU vs Apple Silicon vs Taalas Chips

Time to First Token, or TTFT, is the pause between sending a prompt and seeing the first word come back. In most AI products, that's the delay users

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Jeremy Murray

2 May 2026 · 8 min read

U.S. Semiconductor Supply Chain: Why Chips Go to Taiwan for Packaging

0:00/53.2000831× The hard part of AI chip supply is no longer only the fab. A large share of the delay now sits in advanced packaging, the step

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Jeremy Murray

19 Apr 2026 · 10 min read

Which GPU for Your LLM Model? A Practical Buying Guide

Picking a GPU for an LLM sounds simple until you hit the real variables. Model size, context length, user count, response speed, and budget all pull in different directions. That&

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Jeremy Murray

8 Apr 2026 · 7 min read

Nvidia GPUs vs Google TPUs and AWS Trainium Explained

0:00/76.5606671× AI demand has turned chip choice into a business decision, not only an engineering one. If you run model training, large-scale inference, or edge AI, the

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Jeremy Murray

6 Apr 2026 · 10 min read

AI Grid Orchestration for Telcos with stack8s

AI Grid with stack8s - podcast0:00/117.21× Telcos no longer run AI in one neat data centre. They run it across towers, central offices, regional sites, and cloud

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Jeremy Murray

18 Mar 2026 · 5 min read

Build a System That Lasts..Stop Building AI Agents

I keep seeing founders burn weeks building shiny AI agents, then wonder why nothing sticks. The bottom line is simple: most "agents" don't create durable value,

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Jeremy Murray

12 Mar 2026 · 3 min read

GPT-OSS-120B inferencing: which GPUs make sense to host it in 2026?

Running GPT-OSS-120B in production sounds like a pure compute problem. In practice, it's a memory problem first, then everything else. DevOps teams want predictable latency and clean scaling.

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Jeremy Murray

11 Mar 2026 · 6 min read

H100 SXM5 vs H100 PCIe vs H100 NVL: real differences and best use cases

If you're pricing an AI cluster in March 2026, the names can feel like a trap. H100 SXM5, H100 PCIe, and H100 NVL all say "H100"

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Jeremy Murray

11 Mar 2026 · 8 min read

OpenClaw in the Enterprise: What's Behind the Stir, and What It's For Beyond a Personal Assistant

New GPUs land every quarter. Another CLI appears. Then someone suggests a new "standard stack", and your team's week disappears into setup work. That's

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Jeremy Murray

10 Mar 2026 · 9 min read

Addressing Sovereignty with the stack8s Unified Control Plane

If you can't choose where a workload runs, do you really control it? That's the heart of sovereignty, and it's now a live issue

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Jeremy Murray

2 Mar 2026 · 5 min read

The Sovereign Cloud-Native Blueprint: Architecting a Vendor-Agnostic, Kubernetes-Based AI and Compute Platform

Sovereign Cloud Blueprint Kubernetes and AI0:00/308.361× The Strategic Mandate for Sovereign AI & Compute 1.1 The Decoupling Imperative The global digital economy is increasingly reliant on

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Jeremy Murray

3 Dec 2025 · 19 min read

Bridging HPC and AI/ML: Integrating Slurm with MLOps Platforms

The Convergence Challenge Over the past decade, enterprises have invested heavily in High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure to tackle complex scientific problems. These organizations have built sophisticated systems using Slurm

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Jeremy Murray

22 Aug 2025 · 3 min read

stack8s - Research Institution Edition: A Modern Alternative to Traditional HPC Platforms

Executive Summary Research institutions can leverage Stack8s as a modern alternative to traditional High-Performance Computing platforms by utilizing its distributed Kubernetes infrastructure to support computational research workloads. The platform'

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Jeremy Murray

25 May 2025 · 7 min read

Choosing the Right HPC Platform: Stack8s vs OpenHPC vs Apptainer

Feature / CapabilityOpenHPCApptainer (Singularity)Stack8sTypeHPC OS toolkit / packaging stackHPC-native container runtimeCloud-native platform built on Kubernetes + HPCPrimary Use CaseDeploy and manage Linux HPC clustersReproducible containerized researchRun modern AI/ML, DBs, and tools

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Jeremy Murray

15 May 2025 · 6 min read

Enterprise HPC in the Age of Cloud-Native Computing

This is an Example case study of Research Institutes - many enterprises are following suit by investing in their own on-premises infrastructure, avoiding public cloud for data sovereignty, cost control,

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Jeremy Murray

12 May 2025 · 6 min read

stack8s: Your First Python Serverless Function on Kubernetes: A Multi-Framework Guide (Knative, OpenFaaS, Nuclio & Fission)

General Assumptions: * You have a Kubernetes cluster running on stack8s. * The respective serverless engine (Knative, OpenFaaS, Nuclio, Fission) is installed on your cluster. * You have the CLI for the respective

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Jeremy Murray

9 May 2025 · 6 min read