Summer News Roundup: Storm Clouds on the AI Horizon
Private credit’s woes, AI’s pattern blind spot, Meta’s creepy glasses, DeepSeek’s chips, ChatGPT’s work mode, and agentic AI’s energy profligacy.
Topic
Agentic AI
A collection of 8 issues
AI’s “Ethics-Washing”: Philosophers Follow Futurists Into the AI Business
We’re in desperate need of candor
Meta Leak Timed Impeccably
Pro tip: Take out the trash before the long weekend
Drawing a Hard Line Between Token Spend and Token Wastage
CFOs inevitably demand an accounting
AI in an Era of Stupidity
Humans define the technology's purpose and reach.
It’s a Bot World Now
Pondering the implications
Tales from the Melt-Up in the AI Time Machine
Foxconn goes from iPhones to AI gear; Cisco goes into retro 1999 party mode while reducing headcount
AI Market Risks, Power Chips, and Datacenters in Space
These are interesting times, down here and up there