Philippe Buschini Posts

The myth of ever-cheaper technology is collapsing.

And this time, it’s not a passing crisis.

Rising component prices, the disappearance of mid-range devices, cloud providers passing their costs onto businesses… Techflation is no longer an economist’s hypothesis: it’s showing up in your IT budgets and your wallet.

What this article breaks down:

– Why smartphones under $300 are simply going to disappear

– How financial markets are still ignoring the true depth of this crisis

– What strategies companies and governments are starting to adopt to reclaim control over their digital sovereignty

Between the Androidcalypse reshaping the mobile market, the extreme fragility of semiconductor supply chains, and the rise of new alternatives (RISC-V, open source AI), the digital world as we know it is undergoing a profound transformation.

The question is no longer whether things will change. It’s already happening.

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What if the promise of ever-cheaper digital technology were coming to an end?

Component shortages, dependence on scarce resources, surging energy consumption from data centers… the signals are piling up, revealing a deep transformation of the digital economy.

This phenomenon goes beyond rising costs. It marks a turning point: technology is becoming a strategic resource, constrained and contested. A shift that is already forcing us to rethink our technological and industrial models.

Welcome to the era of techflation.

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🤖 What if artificial intelligence was actually surpassing us, for real?

AGI, multimodality, technological arms race… What still sounded like science fiction 5 years ago is now on researchers’ desks. And the deadlines are closing in faster than anyone expected.

In this article, I explore the big questions reshaping our relationship with AI:

→ Why are AGI predictions accelerating so fast?

→ What are the real challenges: alignment, inequality, geopolitics?

→ And above all: what role can Europe still play in this revolution?

We can no longer afford to wait before we understand.

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ChatGPT has already transformed the way we work, learn, create, and even structure our thinking. Yet behind the spectacular performance of artificial intelligence lie deeper limitations as well, hallucinations, bias, opacity, technological dependence, and a quiet reshaping of our intellectual bearings. This article explores how ChatGPT is revolutionizing the world, not only in our everyday uses, but also in our relationship with knowledge, education, work, and even the future of our civilization.

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A machine was fed with the equivalent of 10 million books. Then it was taught humanity.

he result? GPT-3 began solving advanced mathematics. Without anyone teaching it. It translated between programming languages. Detected invisible emotional signals. Wrote sonnets under seemingly impossible constraints.

Then GPT-4.5 arrived. Worse than its predecessor on certain tests. With no obvious explanation.

As if these models had their own cognitive weather.

Between 2018 and 2022, behind the closed doors of research laboratories, something was created that we still do not fully understand. Something that develops abilities no one explicitly taught it. And sometimes loses them, without anyone knowing why.

The cost of the operation: 200 million dollars. 25,000 GPUs. 20,000 hours of human labor just to teach it basic politeness.

If their creators discover abilities only after the fact, what other surprises might still be waiting for us?

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