Just Unplug AI? Why It Won’t Happen
AI isn't the Coke machine in the cafeteria. It's holding up the roof.
Yes, AI could destroy us all. But not how you think it will.
The real villains are the usual suspects.
Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire. You helped pay for it.
I thought everyone knew this - but I guess it bears repeating since I’ve seen so many posts defending Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire. CNN looked at how Musk got there, and the truth is Tesla and SpaceX don’t exist in the form they do today without government help. Our tax dollars ended up saving…
The Man Who Might Be Satoshi Is Going Public Through the Commerce Secretary’s Son’s Firm
Adam Back, Howard Lutnick, and a $79 billion disclosure problem The guy the New York Times just identified as the secret creator of Bitcoin is in the process of going public through a company chaired by Howard Lutnick’s son. Take a second with that. Adam Back is a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, the proof-of-work…
Altman Proposes Taxing Robots While Selling Them to the Pentagon
The company that dropped its ethics lost to the one that kept them People think I’m a cheerleader for AI. I would say that I’m not a cheerleader for anything. I just want to look at issues logically. AI is not good or bad - it’s just a tool - used by people - who…
The $20 Billion Company Nvidia Says It Didn’t Buy
While everyone debates AI, Big Tech is rewriting the rules of competition
The AI Bubble Is Real and It’s About to Hit Regular People the Hardest
Okay - I just went back through my notes app - and hooooboy. I started to research and write sooooo many things this week that I just abandoned because there’s too much to cover - even if you spend 12 to 14 hours a day, everyday trying to keep up with it all. But I…
Hacked Emails Show Larry Ellison Vetting Marco Rubio on Israel in 2015
Wanna fall down a rabbit hole with me? I never thought we’d end up with tech billionaires, ex-prime ministers, social-media apps, and war zones all tangled together - yet here we are. This story starts with Larry Ellison, the Oracle billionaire. According to hacked emails first reported by Drop Site News this month, back in…