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Soundtrack: EL-P (ft. Aesop Rock) - Run The Numbers In my years writing this newsletter I have come across few companies as rotten as CoreWeave — an "AI cloud provider" that sells GPU compute to AI companies looking to run or train their models.  CoreWeave had intended
a month ago

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Reality Check

Like this newsletter? Why not listen to the podcast version on Better Offline? Part 1 is out now (here're other links), and Part 2 comes out Friday May 2nd! I'm sick and god-damn tired of this! I have written tens of thousands of words about this

2 weeks ago 5 votes
OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry

Before we go any further: I hate to ask you to do this, but I need your help — I'm up for this year's Webbys for the best business podcast award. I know it's a pain in the ass, but can you sign up

4 weeks ago 34 votes
The Phony Comforts of AI Optimism

A few months ago, Casey Newton of Platformer ran a piece called "The phony comforts of AI skepticism," framing those who would criticize generative AI as "having fun," damning them as "hyper-fixated on the things [AI] can't do." I am not going

a month ago 31 votes
Power Cut

A week ago, analyst TD Cowen revealed that Microsoft had canceled leases "totalling a couple hundred MWs," with "at least two private data center operators across multiple US markets." The report also details how Microsoft "pulled back on converting negotiated and signed Statement[s] of

2 months ago 34 votes

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How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower

This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a product of a far-seeing partnership between public and private sectors to boost innovation and economic growth. Since 20 January, US science has been upended by severe cutbacks from the administration of US President Donald Trump. A series of dramatic […]

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Why Apple can’t just quit China

Patrick McGee, author of the new book Apple in China, on the too-close-to-break relationship between the world’s second-most valuable company and its biggest geopolitical rival.

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At least five interesting things: Requiem for capitalism edition (#63)

Buffett's secret sauce; Trump's price controls; More bad Abundance critiques; The software employment bust; British productivity

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Facebook's "cultural relevance is decreasing quickly"

there’s also a chance that Elon unlocks product iteration velocity and that Twitter could grow a lot as a competitor to us

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The crisis of the 21st century is here

Slipping a little bit closer toward a world of war.

3 days ago 4 votes