An AI CEO finally said something honest

Meredith Whittaker on Twitter / X

Now that even Goldman, Sequoia, and other major investors are calling it, it's good to remember that the shakiness of the AI market, and the mismatch between capex and ROI, has been clear for a long time to those of us who look closely at the political economy of AI. https://t.co/dLLNAcW5Sn— Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) July 30, 2024

Andrew Orlowski on Twitter / X

By far the shrewdest and most entertaining analyst of the AI bubble is Georg Zoeller, ex Facebook. Re-reading his DeepSeek reaction piece from 18 months, which holds up well. It was all so predictable: banning open source, the Red Menace, pivot to military. What has really… pic.twitter.com/38dX7vcrkC— Andrew Orlowski (@AndrewOrlowski) July 5, 2026

AI Billionaires Are Starting to Get Scared

The world's tech billionaires are starting to moderate their rhetoric on AI automation, but that doesn't mean it's all in good faith.

I pulled ~90,000 Reddit posts about what makes writing "sound like AI" to determine the biggest AI-slop giveaways (Part 2)

674 votes, 228 comments. The majority of people can instantly tell when writing is generated by AI. For those who don't intend to get into the weeds…

Luozhu on Twitter / X

For AI products, people generally think the intelligence dominates everything, while privacy and cost are seen as secondary. The industry’s path shows this: we’ve spent huge money in leading labs to build the largest models with exceptional intelligence.But I believe we’ve… pic.twitter.com/oobAyk55rh— Luozhu (@LuozhuZhang) September 10, 2025

Dell's CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I've had in maybe 5 years

"A bit of a shift from a year ago where we were all about the AI PC."

AI CEOs are fear-profiting

AI CEOs are winning investors but risk losing customers with messaging.