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
Anthropic
A collection of 8 issues
AI’s “Ethics-Washing”: Philosophers Follow Futurists Into the AI Business
We’re in desperate need of candor
Drawing a Hard Line Between Token Spend and Token Wastage
CFOs inevitably demand an accounting
On the Eve of the SpaceX IPO
It’s not mission impossible, but separating SpaceX fact from fiction is a daunting challenge.
VCs Call Time on Software’s Long Feast
But investors must change, too
Three Puzzle Pieces in the AI Mosaic
Reasons for concern as reality intrudes
The Citrini Moment: Not a Fashionable Cocktail, but a Provocative AI Scenario
Between forecasts and fiction
AI Gets Contextual and Pragmatic, Among Other Things
And will there still be a market for your organs (not the musical kind) in the age of Dark Enlightenment?