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AI, Alchemy and Strategy

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Richard Merrick
Aug 01, 2026
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An idea of Boyd, Sun Tzu and von Moltke discussing AI and Strategy….(Perplexity)

For a long time, the technologists who built AI have deserved the attention. So too, perhaps more accurately, have the investors who funded them, often drawn from industries that were themselves built on extracting value from earlier digital platforms. That helps explain why…

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