AI. iGaming. Startups.
Building at the edge of software and markets.
Evenbet Gaming. Commercial and market-facing roles across regulated betting and iGaming.
Partis Solutions. Product, partnerships, and operator-side growth work.
Fitzroy Café. Owner-operator. Real-world hospitality. Real customers. Real margins.
Substack. Notes From The Frontier.
Coming soon.
(The iGaming conference, not the deportation agency.)
I’m driving 90 minutes down the coast to ICE in Barcelona today. It’s my first conference in a while. I’d been laying low, heads down on other things, but something about this year felt like the right time to get back in the room.
How AI foundation model innovation went exponential in 2025 and why 2026 is going to be even wilder
I’ve been rather occupied with new market launches for Partis clients to write much recently. But before the year closes, I wanted to cap it with something that’s been a big part of 2025. My year in start-up land; building software with a little (or a lot of) help from AI. A sexy topic indeed.
Kalshi and Polymarket data will soon sit beside stock prices on Google Finance, even further blurring the line between betting, forecasting, and investing.
This almost slipped through last week’s news cycle unnoticed, but Google’s announced integration of Kalshi and Polymarket prediction data signals how differently the macro environment looks at prediction markets now.
Why success often feels emptier the higher you go and what to do about it.
When Airbnb went public, Brian Chesky woke up the next day expecting life to feel different. It didn’t. The company was suddenly worth around $100 billion, but he was back at his desk in sweatpants, ten hours of Zoom ahead, feeling lonelier than ever. “The higher you climb, the fewer people there are with you,” he said.
NVIDIA just made AI development personal.
Jensen Huang walked into SpaceX’s Starbase facility yesterday and hand-delivered the first DGX Spark to Elon Musk.
A thought experiment.
The video surfaced on a Tuesday morning. A Fortune 500 CEO at what appeared to be a private dinner, making remarks about hiring practices that would charitably be described as neolithic. Within three hours, the company’s stock had tanked, billions in value gone. Fox and CNN anchors alike speaking in that special tone reserved for executive immolation. Twitter/X took the overs, Reddit took the unders and the internet went up in flames.
Six years after PASPA, sportsbooks still bleed, and casino, sweeps and prediction markets are picking up the slack
When PASPA was struck down in 2018, US sports betting was sold as the industry’s promised land. Every operator wanted in. Within months, the big apps raced across state lines, the leagues signed up for data deals, and investors were told this was the moment gambling would finally go mainstream.
Half the internet’s calling it a revolution. The other half? Not impressed.
It was the most hyped AI release since GPT-4 in March 2023. Sam Altman had been talking about it for months, hinting at game-changing capabilities and fuelling speculation that this could be the moment AI takes another giant leap. Social media was primed. Tech press had their headlines half-written. Investors were ready to hit refresh on their portfolios.
Meta's pouring hundreds of billions into AI that makes humans superhuman. The timeline: faster than you think.
The Zuck just published his superintelligence manifesto. His message: Meta's building AI to empower billions, not automate them away.
The week's signal, minus the noise
I'm experimenting to add a new post format to 'Notes from the Frontier', based on the articles that pique my interest each week. I spend a ungodly amount of time each week sifting through news and current events, particularly in tech, AI, iGaming (online gambling), policy, mental health & science, so the newsletter will be focussed around those pillars. If this is something you'd like to get discreetly in your mailbox each week, just subscribe.
The same technology driving us to burnout has become our primary mental health support, and that might be exactly what we need
No wait times. No insurance hassles. No judgement.
And Why Every Tech Panic Sounds the Same
Every generation believes it's the last one to think clearly. And they have the receipts to prove it.