New AI bubble indicator: "In Taipei, where convenience stores sell lottery tickets that can win as many as 500 shares of Nvidia stock..." www.wsj.com/world/asia/s...

Personal tech advice: If you're thinking of buying a smartphone or any other consumer electronics this year, buy it now. You know AI-induced computer chip inflation is real when even Apple is like, ehhhhh we cannot deal. www.wsj.com/tech/apple-p...

Congrats to the SpaceX employees who discovered collective bargaining. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"One CTO told Axios that employees were using AI models to check the weather." www.axios.com/2026/05/28/a...

Apparently a bunch of words trigger this kind of response, including redo, delete, help, and these others I've attached. For some reason it was really focused on where I live. Also RIP pulling up definitions from Google, it was a nice feature.

Short summary of the business, as I believe other outlets have previewed: Starlink, good growth & operating income profitable rocket launches: Meh or negative growth, unprofitable AI: Trash fire

Is this the longest prospectus I've ever read? There are so so many pages of blather? www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Grateful to these astonishing new grads who talked about their trepidation and hopes about bursting into a job market freaked out about AI. 2026 grads are the last class to start college before ChatGPT landed. They're graduating into a profoundly changed world. wapo.st/4fyd6Sp

"He had top legal counsel, and to lose on statute-of-limitations grounds is extremely embarrassing," Andrew Stoltmann told @gerritd.bsky.social

Musk missed the window on the statute of limitations, the most pedestrian end to a trial of fireworks. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

"Two months after handing off their personal financial data, the bonus still hadn’t arrived, the chats show. Some staffers who have asked about the payment have been told that the manager in charge of the program is no longer working there..." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The real genius in this piece was not the vibe coding, it was this: "I began having friends over for a ritual I called Admin Night. The idea is to power through your personal sludge in communion with others." www.wired.com/story/normie...

I'm definitely going to buy one of these cushy butt pillows, though. Thanks to the trial participants for the recs. www.wired.com/story/fancy-...

"From one petty bitch to another: beautifully done." I'm going to miss this trial and all the ridiculousness that it unearthed, and @lopatto.bsky.social's commitment to petty gossip. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

New: The liberal billionaire @tomsteyerhq.bsky.social's campaign has been paying influencers to champion his run for California governor - and many are doing so without disclosure. One big TikToker, who called the 68-year-old a "vibe," didn't mention he'd been paid $10,000 wapo.st/4twTpOh

Like @davelee.me, I'm on team HELL NO to constantly verbally commanding computers. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

this metaphor in Musk v. Altman closing statements is sending me

So fun that literally anything you do is packaged and sold to the highest bidder to train AI. That includes your poop images. www.404media.co/ai-poop-anal...

A reminder that for every dollar of revenue Meta reported this year, it generated 41 cents of operating profit. This company is not in poverty. www.wired.com/story/meta-l...

Bless this Wired lede so hard. "Wednesday’s episode of the Musk v. Altman trial kicked off on Wednesday with a unique proposition: OpenAI wanted to bring its ass into the courtroom, and lay it bare before the jury. It’s a good thing lady justice wears that blindfold." www.wired.com/story/musk-a...

When people in positions of authority are asked, "Do you think A.I. will kill jobs?" I think it would be useful if more of them said, "I don't know. It's complicated." Sam Altman does typically say a version of that. Many other business leaders don't. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/o...

This trial is so weird. "On Thursday, another member of the public sitting in the court put on a sleep mask and appeared to fall asleep soon after Musk’s testimony ended." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

What would happen if banks and businesses that must deal with the fallout of imposter scams enabled by Google banded together to make these scams less common. The answer cannot be, rely on billions of humans to not fall for scams. We know how that ends. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

Tech executives with their shoe-clad feet on sofas dot com.

Let the record show that Elon Musk does not recall ingesting rhino ketamine at Burning Man in 2017 www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Musk v. Altman has become a circus of dueling egotists and a glimpse into unflattering secrets of Silicon Valley VIPs. We read Elon Musk questioned about "rhino ketamine," a big MAGA donor dreaming about becoming a billionaire, and so many cringey texts. wapo.st/4sOqKUo

So wait. Did the eyeball scanning panopticon confuse Bruno Mars with unrelated Jared Leto band Thirty Seconds to Mars ? www.wired.com/story/sam-al...

I won't believe in an A.I. future until Gmail stops putting literally the same newsletter into a different tab every single day.

Sorry, Citigroup laid off its AI evangelists due to AI? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/b...

I won't spoil the surprise of this glorious @caity.bsky.social investigation that made me laugh out loud and then feel profoundly sad within two paragraphs. But. Has anyone had an intervention about Caity's Diet Coke habit? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The robot revolution is very very very laborious. "AI researchers record themselves folding clothes using robotic limbs." by @kevinschaul.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

A formerly highflying 2010s online shoe brand is dead, but the remnant ghost company is becoming an AI chip rental service. This encapsulates everything about Silicon Valley in the past 15 years. It's "we didn't start the fire" lyrics, but Allbirds. ir.allbirds.com/news-release...

Look at the crumbling support among Virginians (America's first data center hot spot) for data centers: Q: Would you be comfortable or uncomfortable if a new data center were built in your community? 2023: 69% comfortable 2026: 35% comfortable www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Marry me, Richard Horner. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Hurrah, a good story about the local news business! www.thebanner.com/economy/bann...

Really interesting story that is basically Jevons paradox, but for healthcare. And in America, more health care = more money = bad (?) www.statnews.com/2026/04/08/i...

My version of a can't-miss reality show is OpenAI and Anthropic executives verbally flipping over tables about revenue recognition accounting. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

To all the Cats who collectively assisted in the Splashdown portion of the Artemis II mission, including my Gonzo, I salute you and thank you for your service. #catsthatlovenasa #cats #nasa #artemisII

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/t... You'd think that if you search for the Grand Hotel Majestic in Bologna that Google would show more prominently a link to the Grand Hotel Majestic in Bologna. Nope. This is a perennial problem for travelers. Google knows it. The travel industry knows it.

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers is overseeing the Musk v. Altman lawsuit going to trial soon. She does not suffer fools. See this exchange with one of the lawyers in the case: Should be interesting how she handles the big personalities in court.

Hall of fame FT correction

Between this and the recent Quinnipiac poll, it's glaring how much public opinion has soured on AI just in the last year. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/s...

I did a Captcha wrong twice on the New York Times website, and I think this means I'm banned from New York and journalism.

The lesson here: U.S. digital privacy & security standards are so lax it's impossible to make informed consumer decisions about which like which routers (or connected doorbells, vacuums, etc) to buy. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/07/m...

Modest proposal: No company (or news article or post) can use the words "run rate revenue" unless they explain how the run rate is calculated and if it's comparable to peers' calculation of this (bespoke and semi-fictional) number. www.anthropic.com/news/google-...

I keep thinking about these OpenAI lines from last week. I don't think it's true. AWS won because it was useful, not because it's owned by Amazon. Startup workplace tools like Slack were useful and sold smartly. People didn't use them at home first. openai.com/index/accele...

Tag yourself. I'm bottom left hand corner startled looking candy necklace lamb. www.reddit.com/r/Baking/com...

The words "snake bros" will haunt me forever. Perfect story. Endless oddities. And the zoo keepers aren't getting paid enough. www.wired.com/snake-bros-a...

We need @eliotwb.bsky.social & Maureen Farrell to weigh in on this. Maybe it's like WeWork bankrolling its own creator awards?

Every generation of start-ups has its own fuzzy math. Groupon had ACSOI (earnings excluding very high marketing costs) WeWork had a similar "community adjusted Ebitda" I guess OpenAI and Anthropic have earnings excluding training costs (which are very very high) www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...