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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
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April 2026

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Move Fast and Break Buyers: Everyone is Tired

April 2026

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

March 2026

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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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Can Governments Handle a Generation Displaced by AI?

The news is packed with layoff fervour. But what about those that can’t get a first job to be laid off from? Recent stats have pus…

March 2026
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Too Big to Fail by 2027: OpenAI’s $200M Gamble for Survival

Following the analysis from our latest podcast, where we broke down Anthropic’s pivot away from the public sector and OpenAI’s agg…

March 2026
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The hidden paradox of AI layoffs

Data released earlier this month from New York, a state that requires companies to reveal their reasons for layoffs, raised eyebro…

February 2026
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Agentic AI’s Moltbot Security Crisis: Bad Architecture or Bad Engineering?

Clawdbot. Moltbot. The same agentic AI assistant, wearing different names after Anthropic raised reasonable objections to the orig…

January 2026
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From AGI to adverts: A new money-making scheme

To say OpenAI’s latest foray into revenue generation is underwhelming might sound glib, but it marks a staggering retreat from the…

January 2026

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