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Who Pockets the AI Dividend?
Publishers decry AI while letting it design their covers, shoppers’ agents tune out your marketing, and vibe coding turns out less democratic than…
Taste Is the Last Moat
AI made average free. Now the edge is the only thing worth paying for.
Is That Really a Person?
A video bot passes for human, one developer is cloning Adobe with Claude while one lecturer keeps the world’s clocks running for free, and Norway has…
Whose Side Is Your Agent On?
Amazon runs its rivals’ storefronts, the AI build-out needs $6 trillion a year to pay off, and California tears out vineyards Gen Z won’t drink from.
When Your Core Isn’t What You Do Anymore
LEGO nearly went bankrupt confusing what it could do with what it existed to do. Professional services firms are about to face the same test.
Nobody Argues Back Anymore
DraftKings points its models at the bettors who lose most, seven in ten large companies can’t show an AI win, and dating apps drown in their own choice.
The Great Walk-Back
Employers mine your credit-card balances to lowball salaries, a Polish app hunts Meta glasses nearby, and nine streaming subscriptions now cost $702…
A Practical Futurist’s Guide to Not Losing Your Mind Over the AI Discourse This Week
Holy hell has it been a wild week in AI discourse.
Growth Up, Paychecks Down
Americans without degrees enjoy their best hiring market in decades, China’s record graduate class doesn’t, and kitchen-table Claude agents are…
Nobody’s Ready For This
Exploits now ship in minutes, drones dump packages in pools, insurance adjusters are revolting, and Loudoun County already lived this future twenty…
Faster, Neater, No Better
Meta’s engineers shipped nothing extra, Oura gets sued over its sleep math, and founders now lose sleep babysitting agents that never do.
Cheap Intelligence, Expensive Companies
Working Theory #002
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