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Anthropic’s Alchemy

To justify their massive capital expenditure, frontier AI companies like Anthropic are using unconventional accounting and ambitio…

October 2026
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Book smarts, street smarts, and whatever we’re calling AGI this week

September 2026

Analysis

Stop us developing AI to save humanity…and our balance sheets

August 2026

Analysis

The Sloppening Begins: Identifying AI slop just got easier

August 2026

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Are we the AI baddies, again?

Until recently, Anthropic's played the game well. It poo-pooed government contracts that might see its tech be used in untoward wa…

August 2026
Analysis

The Jobspocalypse Is Cancelled

Despite the valuations of their companies largely resting on the promise of displacing expensive employees with AI, both Sam Altma…

July 2026
Opinion

On Tokenmaxxing, Tokenomics, and Quality

The Information reported earlier this month that a Meta employee had built an internal leaderboard, on their own initiative, that …

April 2026
Opinion

Move Fast and Break Buyers: Everyone is Tired

OpenClaw, NemoClaw, Mythos, Spud, Gemma 4, half a dozen new MCP servers, three competing agent protocols, a fresh wave of image mo…

April 2026
Analysis

The $80 Billion Retreat: Why Meta is Finally Giving Up on VR

News spread quickly this week that Meta was finally calling time on its namesake: the Metaverse. In reality, they were just pullin…

March 2026
Analysis

Meta’s Moltbook Acquisition Rating: The Mask

The tech world is obsessed with Meta's March 2026 acquisition of Moltbook, the viral Reddit-style forum where AI agents pass the t…

March 2026

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