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
Private Markets
A collection of 64 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.
It’s a Bot World Now
Pondering the implications
VCs Call Time on Software’s Long Feast
But investors must change, too
Standards Gap in Personal-Care Robotics Highlights a Bigger Problem
It’s hard for oversight and standards to keep up, but the need to do so is greater than ever
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
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