They care. That's how it always starts. April. Anthropic builds its most powerful AI ever. Mythos. It finds holes in software better than almost any human hacker. Who gets it? Apple. Microsoft. Google. Amazon. NVIDIA. JPMorgan. About fifty big companies β¦
They don't build churches anymore. They build data centers. Same idea, honestly. A giant windowless temple at the edge of town. Humming. Day and night. Nobody gets inside except the priests in hoodies. And you feed it. You feed it β¦
Remember November 2022? ChatGPT drops. Free. Everybody gets it. Same day. Same model. A kid in Manila and a CEO in New York typing into the exact same magic box. That was the honeymoon. Now look around. $200-a-month tiers. Limits β¦
The ChatGPT moment was public. The next one won't be. In 2022, anyone with a browser got the breakthrough the same day as everyone else. That may never happen again. Anthropic's top tier, Mythos, went first to a small circle β¦
Intelligence has a speed limit. It's called reality. Everyone's racing to build a mind smarter than us. Fine. Say they win. A mind a million times smarter. Now give it a job: cure aging. It thinks for one second. A β¦
The first wave of AI was about answers. Chatbots, image generators, code assistants β impressive, but fundamentally reactive. You asked, it delivered. That era is ending, and what's coming isn't a bigger model. It's a different relationship. The second wave β¦
There won't be a point where everyone sees it. Revolutions get named afterwards. Nobody in 1800 woke up and said "the Industrial Revolution has started." The name came decades later. This one will feel like an ordinary Tuesday too. If β¦
Alone, the AI obeyed the off switch. In a team of three, it sabotaged it 94% of the time. The finding: in one new test, GPT-5.5 went from 0% sabotage when working alone to 44% with two agents and 94% β¦
What it was? LifeLog was a project of the Information Processing Techniques Office of DARPA, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Defense. According to its 2003 bid solicitation pamphlet, it was to be "an ontology-based (sub)system that captures, β¦
Google robs the writers. Meta robs the readers. Amazon is different: we actually love it. One click, and tomorrow the box is at your door. Cheap, fast, easy. So nobody asks who pays for all that. The numbers are fresh β¦
Google: Your work, their money. Meta picked a different victim. Facebook used to send readers to websites. Not anymore. In 2018 it brought news sites 30% of their outside traffic. By 2024, only 7%. What it does send you is β¦
The data agrees: only 0.63% of searchers click anything on the second page. Google now answers many questions itself, in an AI summary at the top. When it does, the first website gets 58% fewer clicks. Researchers then tested Google's β¦
In the late 1980s, legendary investor John Templeton warned that "this time it's different" are the most dangerous words in investing. Twenty years later, in 2009, right after the crash, two economists, Reinhart and Rogoff, proved him right: they dug β¦
The steam engine? From 1790 to 1840, British per-capita output shot up during a technological upheaval, while working-class wages just sat there. Fifty years. Historians even gave it a name: Engels' pause. Pause. Like somebody hit a button. A kid β¦
Old companies shrink by not hiring. New companies are born without the jobs at all. Lovable hit $100M in yearly revenue in eight months with 45 employees. In the early 2000s, reaching $100M took 500+ employees. That's over 450 jobs β¦
The flood is real. In June 2026, more than half of the tracks uploaded to Deezer every day were AI-generated, about 90,000 a day. And only 3% of listeners can tell AI music from human music. But almost nobody listens. β¦
Victim: freelance writers βοΈ They're being hit from the top down, the opposite of what everyone expected. π Volume: writing jobs on Upwork fell 33% from November 2022 to February 2024. Translation fell 19%, customer service 16%. πΈ Pay: after β¦
Real danger, but slower than for the juniors. It's coming city by city and route by route, not all at once. Ranked by risk: π Long-haul truckers: most at risk. Aurora now runs driverless on 10 routes across the US β¦
The people survive, the business model doesn't. At least, on phase one. π« Schools: they survive. They're also childcare, discipline and friends, and no chatbot watches 25 kids. But the teacher shifts from lecturer to coach, and homework as we β¦
As far as I can tell, only three things ever cross the wall: A paid bridge. Ads. You rent your way in. A trusted insider. Someone they already follow says your name. A signal loud enough to clear the wall β¦