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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Work Expectations
A collection of 25 issues
AI in an Era of Stupidity
Humans define the technology's purpose and reach.
Three Puzzle Pieces in the AI Mosaic
Reasons for concern as reality intrudes
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
The Friday File
A look back, with a forward glance
Welcome to the Lightning Round
Thunder to follow
Battling November Gloom
Things Considered and Rejected Amid Seasonal Restlessness
Datacenters in Space: Not a Sitcom, but Maybe It Should Be
There’s no serenity now
It’s Mad, Mad World
Pointless AI Chess Tournaments, Trump’s CEO Tirades, and the Future of Work