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
OpenAI
A collection of 50 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
It’s a Bot World Now
Pondering the implications
On the Eve of the SpaceX IPO
It’s not mission impossible, but separating SpaceX fact from fiction is a daunting challenge.
Musk Stopped by Legal TKO, and Revisiting the Melt-Up
Two puzzlers that have nothing else in common.
Three Puzzle Pieces in the AI Mosaic
Reasons for concern as reality intrudes
Warning Signs Flashing Insistently at OpenAI
These risks aren’t shy about announcing themselves
AI and the Question of Trust
How to escape “human enfeeblement”
Welcome to the Lightning Round
Thunder to follow