<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Nicola Pietroluongo - AI &amp; Technology Strategist</title><description>AI &amp; Technology Strategist writing on AI/ML, cloud computing, software development, and technology strategy</description><link>https://www.nicolapietroluongo.com/</link><language>en-US</language><item><title>Power Is the New Bottleneck: Inside the 2026 AI Infrastructure Land Grab</title><link>https://www.nicolapietroluongo.com/archives/ai-power-is-the-new-bottleneck/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nicolapietroluongo.com/archives/ai-power-is-the-new-bottleneck/</guid><description>Why electricity, not chips, is now the binding constraint on AI infrastructure in 2026 - and what the nuclear deals, grid data, and executive commentary actually show.</description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>infrastructure</category><category>cloud</category></item><item><title>GPT-6 Astra vs. Claude Fable 5.1: How They Actually Work, Not How They Score</title><link>https://www.nicolapietroluongo.com/archives/gpt-6-astra-vs-claude-fable-5-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nicolapietroluongo.com/archives/gpt-6-astra-vs-claude-fable-5-1/</guid><description>How OpenAI&apos;s GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic&apos;s Claude Fable 5.1 actually differ in design and token economics, skipping the benchmark leaderboard.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>llm</category><category>anthropic</category><category>openai</category></item><item><title>The Kubernetes ML Stack in 2026: What&apos;s Shared, and What Each Cloud Adds</title><link>https://www.nicolapietroluongo.com/archives/ml-training-inference-on-kubernetes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nicolapietroluongo.com/archives/ml-training-inference-on-kubernetes/</guid><description>The Kubernetes-native tooling for ML training and inference that now works the same across EKS, AKS, and GKE - plus what each cloud actually bolts on top.</description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>kubernetes</category><category>aws</category><category>azure</category><category>gcp</category><category>ml-infrastructure</category></item><item><title>Running Whisper Locally: A Practical Quick-Start</title><link>https://www.nicolapietroluongo.com/archives/run-whisper-locally/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nicolapietroluongo.com/archives/run-whisper-locally/</guid><description>A practical guide to running OpenAI&apos;s Whisper speech-to-text model on your own hardware, from picking a model size to the fastest Hugging Face setup.</description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>speech-to-text</category><category>open-source</category></item><item><title>A New Website, Refocused for 2026</title><link>https://www.nicolapietroluongo.com/archives/welcome-to-the-new-site/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nicolapietroluongo.com/archives/welcome-to-the-new-site/</guid><description>A short note on why this site has been rebuilt from scratch for 2026, with old content retired and a new weekly focus on AI and infrastructure.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>announcement</category></item></channel></rss>