Posts tagged "friday-roundup"
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Friday Roundup #15: Failing Where the Pitch Was Loudest
The administration skipped the silencing and went straight to the kill switch, converting 8,000 feds to at-will status. Microsoft became the road malware travels. An AI school camera missed an armed student while a man sat jailed despite data proving his innocence. The cheap-AI era ended before the expensive one proved itself. And the neighborhoods underneath the data centers organized. One throughline: the failures landed in the domains the pitch was most confident.
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Friday Roundup #14: The ROI Story Cracked
Ed Zitron declared AI has no ROI, the billionaires got scared, and research blamed remote work — not AI — for the graduate slump. Underneath the sentiment turn, a credential worm rode official Red Hat npm packages, Zig called AI-written code 'invariably garbage,' vendors pitched agents as inescapable while publishing containment docs, and the federal workforce got NDAs in the same cycle as an 'anti-technology extremist' label.
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Friday Roundup #13: AI Became an Authority Story
Pope Leo XIV issued an AI encyclical and put an Anthropic co-founder on the Vatican stage. Anthropic hit $47B run-rate while Apollo and Blackstone shopped $36B in chip debt. Korean unions bargained the AI windfall. Illinois passed a real law. Blue Origin's only pad exploded. The bill underneath the model story is now visible.
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Friday Roundup #12: The Week the Spreadsheet Pushed Back
Hackers poisoned open source at industrial scale. Office users won the right to delete the Copilot button. Irish Rail wrote down €50 million. Samsung chip workers walked away with $340,000 bonuses. And the clean-energy stories got refreshingly weird.
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Friday Roundup #11: The Rules Move Underfoot
AI safety became a lobbying stack, agents moved into ordinary workflows, map fights turned into midterm operations, advanced air mobility hit the infrastructure spreadsheet, and dual-use systems kept collapsing civilian and military categories.
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Friday Roundup #10: The Machine Enters the Room
Anthropic became a Washington problem, Musk v. Altman became the AI industry's public deposition, backlash got institutional teeth, data centers became land-use politics, and Hormuz entered the grocery bill.
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Friday Roundup #7: The Clock Is Running Out
Iran gets a 10-day reprieve. The White House draws a line on AI that lets states do nothing. And every chart from this week points the same direction: the rules of the economy are being rewritten while everyone argues about the deadline.
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Friday Roundup #6: The First-Mover Curse
OpenAI discovers what winning costs. Trump's Iran war cracks his own coalition. And labor — written off two weeks ago — takes the floor. Three stories about what happens when momentum meets reality.
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Friday Roundup #5: The Weasel Words Edition
OpenAI's Pentagon deal is full of loopholes. Anthropic bent the knee. Amazon imports warehouse surveillance to white-collar workers. And 45,000 tech workers lost their jobs this month. The words say one thing. The actions say another.
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Friday Roundup #3: The Speedrun Era
The disruption is now operational: AI deployment is outrunning governance, and workers are absorbing the shock.