AI is probably not a bubble
AI companies have revenue, demand, and paths to immense value
AI is probably not a bubble
AI companies have revenue, demand, and paths to immense value
The real AI economy is being built by ordinary people
Far from Silicon Valley pitch decks, workers across Asia and Africa are bypassing tech industry hype to quietly rewire their daily jobs — one prompt, workflow, and local problem at a time.
Bernie Sanders has AI policy all wrong
His criticisms are responding to industry hype, not the real harms of generative AI
AI is Creating Peak Software, Media is the Best Analogy
Let's learn more about the world's most important manufactured product. Meaningful insight, timely analysis, and an occasional investment idea.
"AI" is Automated Inequality
Tech bros still dominate the discussions about so-called "AI" with false claims. Even most "AI"-critical researchers spend much of their time meticulously debunking (always only a subset of) claims, leaving vast areas of the economic consequences of "AI" unexplored. (Even the "AI"-evangelist Economi
AI is An Ideology, Not A Technology
At its core, "artificial intelligence" is a perilous belief that fails to recognize the agency of humans.
AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good.
Turning models into products runs into five challenges
Why the tech industry can't keep up with the AI backlash
AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them
The AI Information Warp - REAL Resistance
Klaudia Jaźwińska, Aliya Bhatia, and Yanick Kemayou come together to answer: What happens when a small collection of AI companies start colonising the truth?
Study maps how ‘Big AI’ influences AI laws and oversight — Centre for Technomoral Futures
AI companies influence policy and regulation using similar techniques to Big Tobacco, Big Pharma and Big Oil, according to a new study by colleagues at University of Edinburgh, Trinity College Dublin, TU Delft and Carnegie Mellon University.
Feeding the machine
The fastest growing companies in the world aren’t AI companies, but the startups that supply them with warm bodies.
Governments Can’t Agree on What AI Actually Is
Without clear definitions, governance is impossible.
AI industry leaders and companies are spending millions to influence who gets elected in the US midterms and potentially, how artificial intelligence gets regulated. But strangely the political ads they are paying for don’t appear to mention AI at all.
Bellingcat
A Bellingcat analysis of video ads purchased by the two largest AI-backed Super PACS has revealed that their political advertisements rarely ever mention their stances on AI, despite the advertisements being paid for by issue-specific PACs. bellingcat.com/news/2026/11/02/ai-super-pacs…
