







The AI boom has entered an uncharted, perilous new phase.
Welcome to a Multidimensional Economic Disaster
The AI boom wasn’t built for the polycrisis.
Import AI 458: Reckoning with the future; and a singularity story
What AI-driven miracles will happen this year?

Jefferies’ Chris Wood Warns of ‘Massive Capital Destruction’ From US AI Boom
The most likely long-term outcome of the AI boom will be massive capital destruction in the US, with market share going to cheaper open-source Chinese models, according to Jefferies Financial Group Inc.

The Singularity Is Not What It Seems
Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.
The Singularity Is Not What It Seems
Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.
The Singularity Is Not What It Seems
Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.
AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Care
The tech world is too busy dreaming up imaginary doomsday scenarios to focus on a very real one that flared up between nuclear powers.

Permacomputing and the Dance of Repair Amid the Vestiges of Digital Obsolescence « Performing the Internet
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The State Of The $1.7 Trillion AI Bubble: The End Of Thinking
Writing is thinking and thinking is understanding. Like understanding that the AI bubble has been around for a long time and that it's better to call it the data bubble.

How a 40-Minute Window Brought Down a $10 Billion AI Startup: The Mercor Data Breach, Explained
A poisoned open-source package, a credential-stealing payload, and 4 terabytes of stolen data here’s what every AI company needs to learn…

What if the $3trn AI investment boom goes wrong?
Even if the technology achieves its potential, plenty of people will lose their shirts


People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much.
Tech leaders are beginning to worry about the public’s underwhelming enthusiasm for their plans to remake the world with artificial intelligence. Will that burst the bubble?

Europe 2031 — What getting AI wrong means for us
A five-year scenario about AI and Europe's impending slide into irrelevance, with a 2034 epilogue that describes how the collapse of the European model could have been prevented.

Justin Brannan on Twitter / X
Worst case AI scenario may not be all-powerful, ungovernable machines but a tiny group of all-powerful, ungovernable people. We ponder the sci-fi horror of civilization ending but should focus on the more plausible horror of a society divided into haves and have-nots, forever. https://t.co/5nrw7wwQSH— Justin Brannan (@JustinBrannan) October 20, 2026