George Kakouras

Essays

• Location, Location, Intelligence Sep 2026
• European Office Real Estate: The Recovery That Wasn't Supposed to Happen Apr 2026
• Crypto Payments in Regulated iGaming: The Race Has Started Apr 2026
• EMEA Commercial Real Estate 2026: Where Capital Is Moving Apr 2026
• EU AI Act 2026: What Boards Must Decide Before August Apr 2026
• SEPA Instant Payments: What iGaming Operators Can't Afford to Miss Apr 2026
• The Trust Problem at the Heart of Agentic Commerce — and How Mastercard Addressed It Mar 2026
• War in the Gulf, Tremors Worldwide: What the Iran Conflict Means for Commercial Real Estate Mar 2026
• AI Ethics and Standardization: Why We Need WWW-Style Rules to Save AI From Itself Feb 12, 2026
• Bad Bunny's Halftime Show vs AI: Why Live Events Still Beat Generated Content Feb 9, 2026
• AI Advertising: The Trillion-Dollar Gold Rush Mocked by Anthropic's Super Bowl Jab Feb 6, 2026
• The AI Revolution's Hidden Real Estate Play: Why Data Centers Are Reshaping Commercial Property Investment Feb 5, 2026

The AI Edge

• Issue 11 — Special Edition: Location, Location, Intelligence Sep 2026
• Issue 10 — Stripe/OpenRouter · Brussels kill switch · Ryanair · Rabobank Sep 4, 2026
• Issue 9 — OpenAI & Anthropic IPO race · Safety team · AI on Microsoft's lawn Aug 26, 2026
• Issue 8 — Europe pre-buys compute · Brussels fines €47M · IBM layoffs Aug 18, 2026
• Issue 7 — Frontier models hack real orgs · Brussels enforcement · Agentic AI Aug 11, 2026
• Issue 6 — Frontier CEOs on record · EU AI Omnibus · Malta iGaming AI Charter Jul 28, 2026
• Issue 5 — Inkling open-weight · Kimi K3 · EU AI Act self-hosting trap Jul 21, 2026
• Issue 4 — Nadella's information paradox · EU Cloud Act · Agentic commerce Jul 14, 2026
• Issue 3 — Karp's AI reckoning · EU AI Act green light · Malta AI governance Jul 7, 2026
• Issue 2 — EU DMA AWS/Azure gatekeepers · AI Gigafactories €30B Jun 30, 2026
• Issue 1 — Fable 5 shutdown · MIT 95% ROI failure · EU AI Act 41 days Jun 23, 2026