The Subprime Data Center Crisis
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Let AI Burn
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The AI Industry Is Losing
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Cargo Culture
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Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion
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AI's Brokenomics
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AI Is Slowing Down
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Revenge of The Business Idiot
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Anthropic's "Profitability" Swindle
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AI Is Too Expensive
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Where Are All The Data Centers?
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Am I Meant To Be Impressed?
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AI's Economics Don't Make Sense
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Four Horsemen of the AIpocalypse
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I Will Never Respect A Website
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The Beginning Of History
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The Enshittifinancial Crisis
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NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?
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Big Tech Needs $2 Trillion In AI Revenue By 2030 or They Wasted Their Capex
As I've established again and again, we are in an AI bubble, and no, I cannot tell you
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The Case Against Generative AI
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Is There Any Real Money In Renting Out AI GPUs?
NVIDIA has become a giant, unhealthy rock on which the US markets — and to some extent the US economy — sits,
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Oracle and OpenAI Are Full Of Crap
This week, something strange happened. Oracle, a company that had just missed on its earnings and revenue estimates, saw a
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Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI
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How To Argue With An AI Booster
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Anthropic and OpenAI Have Begun The Subprime AI Crisis
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