Healthcare IT
VA's Oracle Contract Nears $27 Billion. Congress Wants Answers.
VA's $17 billion Oracle contract increase brings congressional scrutiny, unresolved GAO recommendations, and nurses' concerns about everyday care.
IT Leadership
Technology
Uber Cuts 3,300 Jobs. The Memo Names Layers, Not AI.
Uber's 3,300-job cut comes with a memo that counts layers and micro-teams and never says AI. What it measured, what it skipped, and why 1% remote follows.
Technology
Microsoft Retired a Free Nonprofit Grant. The Data Went With It.
Microsoft's retirement of free nonprofit licenses became a mass data-loss event in 2026 — and the deletion machinery worked exactly as documented.
Healthcare IT
Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Kiro, Grok: HIPAA BAA in July 2026
Five coding tools, five different answers on HIPAA BAA coverage — with conditions that matter and vendor language that changed within the past month.
Personal
I Used to Think Alone. Now I Think in Meetings.
Five hundred meetings into the year, I hit a wall one Friday afternoon. What got me unstuck revealed something new about how my brain works.
Technology
AWS Gives AI Agents Their Own Desktop to Run Legacy Apps
Amazon WorkSpaces now gives an AI agent its own cloud desktop to operate legacy apps that have no API — under a real login, with a full audit trail.
Technology
Microsoft 365 Prices Rise July 1 — but Not Until You Renew
The first Microsoft 365 price increase since 2022 takes effect July 1 — but most businesses won't pay more until their next renewal, and an early one can lock in today's rate.
AI
Anthropic Gave Me $3,959.78 of Claude Code Use for $200
I spend $200 a month for Claude's Max plan and lean on it every day. I metered 30 days of that work at Anthropic's own API rates: $3,959.78 — a near twenty-to-one discount, and probably the cheapest frontier-AI access of the foreseeable future.
AI
What a $200 Claude Max Plan Really Buys: I'm Nearing $3,000 in Value
I've spent the better part of a year wondering whether my flat $200 Claude Max plan was a bargain or a rip-off. So I built a tool to meter my Claude Code usage across four machines — one ordinary week billed out at $737 by API pricing.
Healthcare IT
Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI: BAA Coverage for Healthcare
Two of the three frontier-model coding CLIs are explicitly carved out of their vendor's HIPAA BAA, even when bundled into Enterprise seats. Here's what's actually buyable for healthcare today, what it costs at twenty-five seats, and why an individual Max plan plus AWS Bedrock might out-economize all three Enterprise tiers.