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.
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Jobs
A collection of 15 issues
AI’s “Ethics-Washing”: Philosophers Follow Futurists Into the AI Business
We’re in desperate need of candor
AI in an Era of Stupidity
Humans define the technology's purpose and reach.
Economists on the AI Future, Meta’s AI Bind
You can get SpaceX commentary nearly everywhere else
Three Puzzle Pieces in the AI Mosaic
Reasons for concern as reality intrudes
Geek Tragedy and Life in AI Time
Everybody’s wrong sometimes, but experience is a great teacher
One Who Rules Them All: A Bad Management Idea Whose Time has Come
The limitations of the AI-squared tech CEO
A Different Take on AI Hype
Not a hype cycle as much as a hype reckoning
On the Oracle Layoffs (and Recent Layoffs More Generally)
Something big is happening, but what is it?
The Friday File
A look back, with a forward glance