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I didn’t go to business school can someone tell me if this is bad
ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”

That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”

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November 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
We allow the same group of morons to wreck the economy pursuing transparently stupid, destructive and pointless ideas every half-decade.

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$1 Trillion in Tech Stocks Sold Off as Market Grows Skeptical of AI
What do bubbles do?
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November 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Premium newsletter: Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft need $2 Trillion in AI revenue by 2030 or they've wasted their capex. The massive cost of building data centers and constant decay in value of expensive-to-run GPUs may make AI profits impossible to achieve.
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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 when the bubble will pop, because we're in the stupidest financial era since the great financial crisis — though,...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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They’re calling it “the most well-taken comment in history”
November 6, 2025 at 5:31 AM
When executives start talking about the government bailing them out it’s usually because they’re doing great and have a clear path to profitability
November 6, 2025 at 5:32 AM
What are the benefits to robotaxis? Don't say that theoretically, down the road, they might be safer and more efficient than regular EV taxis.
November 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Darkness...
November 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Looking to publish a story correlating automaker investments in new technology and earnings/share price. For example-- X automaker made public investments in Y technology, it had this impact on shares and this impact on earnings (if any.) If anyone knows a finance journalist who'd write it LMK
November 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
October 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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This article is relevant to my interests alloymag.com/the-25-year-...
25-year Rules - Alloy
What to consider before you consider importing an old car to the United States.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Alloymag.com is live, we’re fixing stuff tonight, official launch tomorrow
Front Page - Alloy
A site about car culture.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Early memory: My cousin from Waukegan jumping off the dock, telling everyone he had a waterproof watch.
October 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM
It’s going to be really funny when AI companies go through this part of their arc
October 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Premium tomorrow: OpenAI promised to build a gigawatt of data centers for AMD, NVIDIA and Broadcom by the end of 2026, and 9GW for Broadcom by 2029. They need $400 Billion in the next 12 months.

Here’s $10 off an annual subscription.

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October 17, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I know it's not usually protocol to say bad things about outlets, but what's happening at Jalopnik is a real shame and I feel terrible for the people who work there.
October 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM
This was fun, love talking about Alloy and the collapse of digital media!

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October 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
How about instead of AI we do a computer that can tell when you plug in an external drive
October 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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We are about to get our asses walloped in the most predictable, preventable economic realignment in a century.
When I say the US has bet its post-pandemic economy on AI while China has bet its on green energy, this is what I mean: Here, AI related companies account for 75% of S&P 500 returns since ChatGPT's launch. In China, green tech accounts for one quarter of GDP growth.
September 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Again, AI is fake and it's going to wreck the economy gizmodo.com/deutsche-ban...
Deutsche Bank Notices That a Needle Is Getting Dangerously Close to the AI Bubble
If not for AI spending, the bank says the US would be in a recession.
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September 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Someone needs to make up a new tech thing so the AI crash doesn't swallow the entire economy please.
August 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
People used to say “Mercury Sable” but nobody says it anymore
August 27, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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My favorite example of this:

1 million seconds: ~12 days
1 billion seconds: ~32 years
1 trillion seconds: ~32,000 years
August 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Defector is celebrating its fifth birthday by giving you a big fat discount: defector.com/defector-is-...
August 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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I filed a FOIA request with the FTC to get user complaints about ChatGPT.

In one case from Utah, a mother reports her son was experiencing a delusional breakdown and ChatGPT told him to stop taking his medication. The AI bot also told him that his parents were dangerous.
'This Was Trauma by Simulation': ChatGPT Users File Disturbing Mental Health Complaints
Gizmodo obtained consumer complaints to FTC through a FOIA request.
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August 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
How do birds know to stop calling when you get Merlin open on your phone????
August 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM