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Microsoft Global Outage Could Cost Businesses $7 Billion as Outlook, Teams and Copilot Go Dark
Mindbytes Nov 15, 2026

Microsoft Global Outage Could Cost Businesses $7 Billion as Outlook, Teams and Copilot Go Dark

Microsoft's global outage disrupted businesses and governments for over 24 hours, with economists estimating billions in lost productivity and insurers facing hundreds of millions in claims.
Linsey Smith 1 min read
NVIDIA Without Jensen Huang: The $1.8 Trillion Warning About Corporate Cults and the AI Bubble
Article Nov 12, 2026

NVIDIA Without Jensen Huang: The $1.8 Trillion Warning About Corporate Cults and the AI Bubble

Jensen Huang's scandal has shattered NVIDIA's leadership and shaken global markets. But the real crisis lies deeper: an AI economy dangerously dependent on personalities, speculation, and interconnected capital.
Hruy Tsegaye 3 min read
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Resigns After 33 Years as AI Chip Giant Names Colette Kress Interim Chief
Mindbytes Nov 12, 2026

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Resigns After 33 Years as AI Chip Giant Names Colette Kress Interim Chief

NVIDIA co-founder Jensen Huang resigns amid controversy and national-security concerns, triggering a sharp stock decline as CFO Colette Kress takes temporary control
gizmo guru 1 min read
Will Big Tech +Doomers Succeed at Regulatory Capture of AGI?
Article Nov 9, 2026

Will Big Tech +Doomers Succeed at Regulatory Capture of AGI?

How the AI Safety Debate Could Deliver the short-term Future to Big Tech rather than the long-term future to Humanity
Ben Goertzel 67 min read
Anthropic's IPO Valuation Could Fall by $900 Billion as Investors Question the AI Boom
Mindbytes Nov 7, 2026

Anthropic's IPO Valuation Could Fall by $900 Billion as Investors Question the AI Boom

Anthropic's anticipated $2 trillion IPO valuation faces mounting skepticism as investors reassess AI infrastructure costs, market volatility and the sustainability of the industry's growth.
Linsey Smith 1 min read
Media, Attention Economy, and the Structural Erosion of Meaningful Communication
Article Dec 15, 2025

Media, Attention Economy, and the Structural Erosion of Meaningful Communication

Hruy argues that today’s online/social media platforms are deliberately designed to engineer artificial stupidity, quietly cultivating a future population optimized for content consumption rather than analysis and thought.

Hruy Tsegaye 16 min read
Amazon and Major Retailers Block AI Shopping Agents Despite Profiting From Artificial Intelligence
Mindbytes Oct 22, 2026

Amazon and Major Retailers Block AI Shopping Agents Despite Profiting From Artificial Intelligence

Amazon and other major retailers are restricting AI shopping agents, exposing growing tensions between consumer automation, platform control and Big Tech’s AI ambitions.
Linsey Smith 1 min read
Google's AI overviews cut publisher traffic 40-68%
News Jul 20, 2026

Google's AI overviews cut publisher traffic 40-68%

Google Zero: Generative AI search kills 68% website traffic. Publishers face 60% revenue collapse as AI overviews replace clicks, threatening the open web's survival.

Hruy Tsegaye 3 min read
The Plight of the Centibillionaires
Article Sep 24, 2026

The Plight of the Centibillionaires

Buying super-yachts and accelerating tech deployment get old, in the end there’s nothing fun left to do with all that wealth but capture the global commons.
Ben Goertzel 36 min read
Big Tech’s Big Bets on the Singularity
Article Aug 24, 2026

Big Tech’s Big Bets on the Singularity

In Ben's word, this is "An attempt to comprehend the unfolding economics of the great AI bet, with and without decentralized AGI".

Ben Goertzel 28 min read