Infrastructure.
All Remiam work tagged Infrastructure — across client systems, own products, and the studio's field notes.
- 28 Aug 2026→
The newest chip is in the cheapest Mac.
Apple put its newest silicon in the 899 dollar Mac mini and shipped the 5,499 dollar Mac Studio on last year's generation. Generation and tier have come apart, which means "get the newest one" has stopped being a hardware spec.
- 19 Aug 2026→
Stripe bought the router.
Bloomberg reported on 16 August that Stripe has agreed to buy OpenRouter for more than seven billion dollars. A payments company paid a payments price for the layer that sits between an application and four hundred models. That tells you where the durable part of an AI system actually is.
- 12 Aug 2026→
The agent can live in the building now
Meta put a 30 billion parameter agentic model out under Apache 2.0 on 10 August, small enough for one consumer GPU. The licence is the news, not the benchmark table.
- 2 Aug 2026→
A ground station burned and nothing missed a beat
A wildfire went through NASA's Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex on 24 July. Ninety people evacuated, a 70 metre dish went offline, and spacecraft across the solar system carried on talking. The failover was not clever engineering on the day. It was a decision made sixty years earlier.