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
Work
A collection of 37 issues
AI in an Era of Stupidity
Humans define the technology's purpose and reach.
SpaceX Wealth Redistribution, Jobs’ NeXT Years, Restiveness at Meta
Careening Into the Maelstrom
Tales from the Melt-Up in the AI Time Machine
Foxconn goes from iPhones to AI gear; Cisco goes into retro 1999 party mode while reducing headcount
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
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
Welcome to the Lightning Round
Thunder to follow