Engineering
Companies Are Blowing Through Their AI Budgets
The corporate world is setting fire to piles of cash, and they’re calling it “innovation.” If you want to know what a $2.5 trillion mistake
Google Decides What You Find. Amazon Decides What You Buy. What Happens When AI Decides Everything Else?
You think you’re in control because you clicked the button. You’re not. For two decades, the Silicon Valley elite has been quietly shrinking the walls
China is Not Backing Down in the Space Race
Let’s get one thing straight right out of the gate: the space race everyone’s been talking about, the one where America plants a flag, China
OpenAI Adds Apple to Its List of Adversaries
Most companies pick a lane. OpenAI seems determined to pick a fight with every lane at once. On one front it is fending off Elon
The Biggest Financial Winners of the SpaceX IPO
$1.75 trillion. That is the market capitalization assigned to SpaceX, ticker SPCX on its first day as a publicly traded company. It is a number
Missing Scientists & Time Travel: Nobody Knows What Is Going On
2023-12-22. That’s the date. The post contained just two words, typed from a ghost account on X (formerly Twitter) with a Pepe the Frog avatar:
New Grads Can’t Find Work in Major Cities
New York City lost nearly 30,000 entry-level jobs between 2022 and 2024. That’s a 37% decline in available positions for young workers in the city
Open-Source AI: Security Threat or Democratic Necessity?
Many argue open-source AI is essential for democracy. Many believe that it is terrifying. These two things are both true, and the tension between them
Moltbook is Our Sign the AI Singularity Has Already Occurred
If you were anywhere near social media this past week, you witnessed something that felt ripped from the pages of a dystopian science fiction novel.
Data Refinement via Market Selection
Artificial intelligence is often framed as a problem of model capability. More parameters, more compute, more sophisticated architectures. While these advances matter, they obscure a