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AI Is a Waste of Time

The newest AI tools are accelerating basic research and scaring the general public. But many people are simply using them as toys.

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.

For Most of the World, Open-Source AI Is the Only Way Forward

Proprietary AI is both too expensive and too centralized in control for most countries and companies to rely upon. 

We're Not Building AI Features for the Money

From the Zed Blog: Why Zed invests in AI, and the future we're building toward.

How StrongDM’s AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

Last week I hinted at a demo I had seen from a team implementing what Dan Shapiro called the Dark Factory level of AI adoption, where no human even looks …

Signal's Meredith Whittaker sees AI as another big data grab

The "surveillance business model" is using AI to expand its reach, the privacy expert says.

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Intelligence is not enough to flourish. You need intelligence and well-functioning economic institutions. Even as AI capabilities continue to massively improve, if they are confronted by sclerotic, inefficient, and outdated institutions, they will do far less for prosperity than… https://t.co/0ZhscpPypH— Alex Imas (@alexolegimas) August 9, 2026

Big Tech’s A.I. Spending Is Accelerating (Again)

Despite the risk of a bubble, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon plan to spend billions more on artificial intelligence than they already do.

The Age Of Artificial Intelligence: Americans' AI Use Increases While Views On It Sour, Quinnipiac University Poll On AI Finds; 7 In 10 Think AI Will Cut Jobs With Gen Z The Most Pessimistic | Quinnipiac University Poll

"The contradiction between use and trust of AI is striking. Fifty-one percent say they use AI for research, and many also use it for writing, work, and data analysis. But only 21 percent trust AI-generated information most or almost all of the time. Americans are clearly adopting AI, but they are doing so with deep hesitation, not deep trust," said Chetan Jaiswal, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Computer Science and Associate Chair, Department of Computing, Quinnipiac University School of Computing and Engineering.

How building software is changing at Anthropic

A deepdive on what’s changed in how the leading AI lab makes software. Ever more code review and testing is done by AI, two-pizza teams very much alive, and more. Details from inside of Anthropic

A Collectivist, Economic Perspective on AI

Information technology is in the midst of a revolution in which omnipresent data collection and machine learning are impacting the human world as never before. The word ``intelligence'' is being...

Why China is giving away its best AI models

Chinese labs like Moonshot are forcing OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to rethink what they lock away.