Posts by Jordi
Big Tech’s Newest Lobbyists Are Wearing Sesame Street Costumes
Meta and Google are funding trusted children’s brands as critics warn the partnerships soften scrutiny of platforms built to capture young users’ attention.
Read MoreMicrosoft Is Shopping for an AI Escape Hatch from OpenAI
Microsoft’s reported hunt for AI startup deals shows that the next phase of the AI boom is about leverage, scarce talent, and bargaining power — not just better chatbots.
Read MoreAI Power Demand Just Turned Geothermal Into a Wall Street Story
Fervo Energy’s $10 billion IPO valuation is not just a clean-energy market story. It is another sign that AI is turning electricity into the real bottleneck of the platform economy.
Read MoreOpenAI’s Charity Problem Is Bigger Than Elon Musk
The OpenAI trial is not just Musk versus Altman. It is a test of whether public-benefit AI promises can survive compute scarcity, giant capital, and platform-scale incentives.
Read MoreMeta’s Mouse-Tracking Fight Is the AI Labor Story in Plain Sight
Meta workers are protesting mouse-tracking software as AI-driven layoffs approach, turning the workplace itself into training data.
Read MoreAI Data Centers Are Turning Power Bills Into Political Invoices
The AI buildout is no longer a cloud story. It is becoming a utility-bill story, and ordinary customers are being asked to finance infrastructure they may never control.
Read MoreAI Hacking Has Left the Demo Stage
Google says AI-powered hacking has moved from theory to industrial-scale threat, forcing citizens to ask who absorbs the risk when platforms automate offense faster than institutions can govern it.
Read MoreGM Just Showed What the AI Labor Shock Really Looks Like
GM’s IT cuts show the AI labor shock is not a future robot story. It is a present-tense corporate skill swap inside legacy industry.
Read MoreNetflix Built the Perfect Case for Why “Just Keep Watching” Was Never Neutral
Texas says Netflix turned families into data inventory while telling users a cleaner story. The lawsuit is really about the incentives underneath the attention economy.
Read MoreUtah’s AI Data Center Fight Is What “National Security” Looks Like on a Power Bill
Rural Utah residents want a referendum on a 9-gigawatt AI data center plan, turning the AI race into a local fight over power, water, land and consent.
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