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The Middle Can’t Afford AI
Meanwhile an AI manager fires a worker, Google pays $10M for a dead airline’s inbox, and broke startups resell their token credits at a discount.
Aug 21
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Abundance Was the Pitch
China electrifies its cargo fleet, Amazon builds America’s dirtiest data center, and SAP freezes hiring to cover the AI bill.
Aug 14
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The Bill for Agentic AI Lands on You, Not the Labs
Working Theory #001
Aug 11
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Arrest the Protesters, Not the Agents
Corporate America finally got the AI invoice, Reddit’s user growth evaporated, and Google Earth will now fabricate satellite imagery on request.
Aug 7
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Closing the Foresight-Action Gap
Seeing the future isn’t the same as building it.
Aug 4
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Containment Is a Choice
Professors vanish into labs that won’t let them publish, PwC’s $1.5bn buys hallucinated reports, and the Vatican leaks 700,000 users.
Jul 31
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Trust Us, We Checked
Poisoning an open-weight model costs $100, pirated books cost Anthropic $1.5 billion, and the frontier models still can’t grade their own work.
Jul 24
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Who Does Your Agent Actually Work For?
Why index funds won, Alexa failed, and what that tells you about who wins agentic commerce.
Jul 21
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Trust Me, It’s $5 Trillion
A website manufactures fake revenue for laughs, publishers finally walk away from Google, and the AI you use so carefully is quietly rewiring how you…
Jul 17
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The Choice Was Never Yours
AI companions engineered for engagement, superforecasters nobody elected, and bills that already outprice the humans they replace: the invoice always…
Jul 10
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Maybe the kids aren’t alright. Now what about everyone else?
Why loading AI onto your most experienced people looks like free productivity – and why that bet quietly hollows out the firm’s ability to adapt.
Jul 7
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Loud Fears, Quiet Casualties
Washington now vets AI customers like visa applications, an MIT researcher drops an unexplained Chernobyl warning, and Ford’s AI hiring spree already…
Jul 3
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What’s Left for Us to Do?
Students fake the effort they’re paying to skip, Jensen Huang says learn plumbing, and the AI hype machine bills by the token while no one mentions…
Jun 26
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