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Chinese EV makers are cashing in on Western luxury knockoffs As the mainland’s electric-vehicle industry expands globally, design mimicry is reshaping...
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
AI Bubble 2027 Soundtrack: The Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer An MIT study found that 95% of...
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Soundtrack: The Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer An MIT study found that 95% of organizations are getting "zero return" from generative AI, seemingly every major outlet is now writing an "are we in a bubble?" story, and now Meta has frozen
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AI robots are helping South Korea’s seniors feel less alone A ChatGPT-powered robotic companion called Hyodol is taking over some work from overburdened...
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A ChatGPT-powered robotic companion called Hyodol is taking over some work from overburdened caregivers, much to the delight of seniors who treat them like grandchildren.
Noahpinion
The richest third-world country How long before America's dysfunctional politics start hurting its economy?
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Inside India’s billion-dollar e-waste empire The informal recycling economy is turning global e-waste into profit — at a steep human and...
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
How To Argue With An AI Booster Editor's Note: For those of you reading via email, I recommend opening this in a browser so you can...
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Editor's Note: For those of you reading via email, I recommend opening this in a browser so you can use the Table of Contents. This is my longest newsletter - a 16,000-word-long opus - and if you like it, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. Thanks for
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How Africa’s e-commerce giant is fighting off Shein and Temu Jumia is capitalizing on the U.S.-China trade war as Chinese vendors are exploring new avenues to...
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Jumia is capitalizing on the U.S.-China trade war as Chinese vendors are exploring new avenues to route their products into markets such as Nigeria and Côte d'Ivoire.
Noahpinion
A few cultural thoughts Taking a quick break from economics.
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Noahpinion
Europe's crusade against air conditioning is insane Adopting foreign technologies is scary, but it's what makes a society rich.
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SharkNinja’s $16B+ Product Machine The strategy behind how SharkNinja operates in 37 categories and has seen sales grow 24x from $250m...
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The strategy behind how SharkNinja operates in 37 categories and has seen sales grow 24x from $250m in 2008 to ~$6B in 2025.
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Featured on People & Blogs Thanks to Manu for featuring me on his series People & Blogs. I wrote a bit about the history of...
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Thanks to Manu for featuring me on his series People & Blogs. I wrote a bit about the history of this blog and how (and why) I write online…
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AI giants race to scoop up elusive real-world data OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity create partnerships and free offers for a steady stream of consumer...
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OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity create partnerships and free offers for a steady stream of consumer data that can't be scraped from the internet.
Noahpinion
Moderation is good for its own sake Winning elections is important. But so is serving the people.
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A hidden network handles chats for OnlyFans stars. AI could soon take over Impersonators for OnlyFans models said their sales quotas are soaring, and once AI improves, they...
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Big Tech’s “AI for good” spending increases in Africa. So does skepticism While Google, Microsoft, and Meta provide AI for social good, some advocates say projects exploit...
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Noahpinion
The U.S.-China competition is on pause Each country is sorting out its own internal issues.
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Noahpinion
Toward a Shallower Future A repost of one of my favorite essays that I've written.
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
How Does GPT-5 Work? Welcome to another premium edition of Where's Your Ed At! Please subscribe to it so I can continue...
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Welcome to another premium edition of Where's Your Ed At! Please subscribe to it so I can continue to drink 80 Diet Cokes a day. Email me at ez@betteroffline.com with the subject "premium" if you ever want to chat. I realize this is before
Noahpinion
America has only one real city We need a few more of them. How can we get them?
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Silicon Valley is sucking up Singapore’s tech talent In The New Geography of Innovation, writer Mehran Gul examines the increasing competition for talent...
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In The New Geography of Innovation, writer Mehran Gul examines the increasing competition for talent in Singapore, where big tech firms are luring people away from once-prized government jobs.
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South Park and The Greatest TV Contract Clause Ever Matt Stone and Trey Parker became billionaires by making 27 seasons of the funniest shows ever (and...
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Matt Stone and Trey Parker became billionaires by making 27 seasons of the funniest shows ever (and signing a first TV deal with an improbable clause).
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Marketing’s misleading metric Perverse incentives, and the unintended consequences that flow from them, can be found on every...
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Perverse incentives, and the unintended consequences that flow from them, can be found on every continent, in every time, and in every industry. And marketing is no different. This article argues that a malevolent metric sits at the heart of many marketing discussions and...
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China falls back on gasoline to drive its global EV conquest Mainland EV makers are shifting from pure-electric to plug-in hybrid engines.
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Dubai’s robotaxi dreams are coming for human drivers The UAE plans to become the world’s testing ground for autonomous vehicles and upend the lives of...
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The UAE plans to become the world’s testing ground for autonomous vehicles and upend the lives of 30,000 cabbies in the process.
Noahpinion
Corporations aren't the reason your rent is too high The antitrust progressives are just wrong about this one.
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China’s vision for a driverless future is miles ahead of everyone else’s Strong government backing and strict regulatory oversight of the Chinese autonomous vehicle industry...
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Strong government backing and strict regulatory oversight of the Chinese autonomous vehicle industry contrasts sharply with the piecemeal laws and slower adoption in the U.S.
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Cool research edition (#68) AI and jobs; Bernie's bad chart; Personalist leaders and growth; AI vs. trolls; Chinese...
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Inverted Passion
Why is there something rather than nothing? Brace yourself for some wild speculations! Been thinking if nothing is even possible. I think it’s...
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Brace yourself for some wild speculations! Been thinking if nothing is even possible. I think it’s impossible for nothing to exist. When we’re sleeping, it’s not as if we’re feeling nothing. There’s actually no feeling then. It’s as if such moments don’t even exist, and that’s a...
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These countries want to be the next big semiconductor hubs Manufacturing powerhouses Mexico, Malaysia, and India want to become less reliant on expensive...
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Manufacturing powerhouses Mexico, Malaysia, and India want to become less reliant on expensive imports — without competing with Nvidia or TSMC.
Working Theorys
Doomprompting Is the New Doomscrolling. The new slot machines of thought — AI’s infinite scroll and the quiet outsourcing of our intention.
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Noahpinion
Who will actually profit from the AI boom? Competition still exists, folks.
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The UAE is giving away its advanced AI The Gulf nation offers advanced software without fees or restrictions, positioning itself as a...
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The Gulf nation offers advanced software without fees or restrictions, positioning itself as a neutral tech power between the U.S. and China.
Noahpinion
Did RFK just take away your cancer treatment? mRNA promised to help turn cancer from a death sentence into a manageable condition.
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Google vs. Perplexity fight plays out in India as AI battle intensifies Google and Perplexity are offering free access to their AI-powered search in India, a key testing...
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Google and Perplexity are offering free access to their AI-powered search in India, a key testing ground and source of training data for AI models.
Ed Zitron's Where's...
AI Is A Money Trap In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive...
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In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive proliferation of data centers is a massive bubble, and though they, at times, seem to take the default position of AI’s inevitable value, they’ve begun to sour on
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China’s AI drug discovery companies land huge deals with Big Pharma Multibillion-dollar partnerships show China’s rising influence in AI-driven pharmaceuticals.
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Noahpinion
Immigrant memoir comics! Learning about the immigrant experience by reading graphic novels
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They left Syria as refugees. They’re returning to build its tech industry After the fall of the Assad regime, tech workers are coming back to help rebuild their nation.
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The Gulf’s trillion-dollar AI dream has a water problem Tech giants are pouring oil riches into Middle East data centers as water scarcity threatens digital...
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Noahpinion
What can India do to industrialize? A guest post by Prakash Loungani and Karan Bhasin.
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VinFast speeds into India after U.S. U-turn After U.S. failure, Vietnam’s EV leader turns to markets dominated by Tesla and BYD.
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Noahpinion
Will data centers crash the economy? This time let's think about a financial crisis before it happens.
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Inverted Passion
Becoming a Republic The following is the essay I had submitted as part of the one week summer course I took at the...
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The following is the essay I had submitted as part of the one week summer course I took at the Oxford University, where we read Plato’s Republic. The essay includes a few references to structure and specific content from the book, so if something doesn’t make sense, it’s probably...
Noahpinion
Why does everyone still hate the Democrats? It should be easier to capitalize on the anti-Trump backlash.
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U.S. targets Brazil’s payments platform Pix in trade spat Big Tech has struggled to compete against Brazil’s beloved digital payments system, with the U.S....
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Big Tech has struggled to compete against Brazil’s beloved digital payments system, with the U.S. government now investigating the country’s “unfair trade practices.”
Working Theorys
Playing to Win Friends & Influence People The Craft 003: A conversation with founder Avi Schiffman on conviction, AI companionship, and...
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The Craft 003: A conversation with founder Avi Schiffman on conviction, AI companionship, and launching the first version of Friend.
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Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained...
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When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained access. But rather than boosting learning, it’s getting in the way.
Noahpinion
The only thing worse than sweatshops is no sweatshops Poor countries have to get rich somehow. This is the tried-and-true method.
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Inside the collapse of Builder.ai: Was it even an AI company? The implosion of a white-hot startup has employees asking how it all went wrong.
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The surprise winner in the U.S.-China tech war? Vietnam’s chip industry Vietnamese chip component suppliers are responding to growing market demands for products with no...
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