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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
OpenAI Seeks $30 Billion at $1.25 Trillion Valuation as IPO Plans Loom
Mindbytes Oct 23, 2026

OpenAI Seeks $30 Billion at $1.25 Trillion Valuation as IPO Plans Loom

OpenAI is reportedly negotiating a $30 billion funding round at a $1.25 trillion valuation, highlighting the enormous capital demands of the AI industry.
gizmo guru 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
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
SWI Group Raises €800 Million to Expand Transatlantic AI Infrastructure
Mindbytes Oct 12, 2026

SWI Group Raises €800 Million to Expand Transatlantic AI Infrastructure

The institutional capital increase gives SWI fresh funding to expand data centers and AI compute infrastructure across Europe and the United States.
gizmo guru 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
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
China's Moonshot Unveils Kimi K3, the World's Largest Open-Weight AI Model
News Jul 17, 2026

China's Moonshot Unveils Kimi K3, the World's Largest Open-Weight AI Model

Alibaba's Kimi K3 delivers frontier AI at lower cost than GPT-5.6 and Claude, signaling a new era for Chinese open-source AI and enterprise large language models

Hruy Tsegaye 4 min read
The UBI Mouse Trap: How Comfort Becomes Control in the Algorithmic Age
Article Jul 24, 2025

The UBI Mouse Trap: How Comfort Becomes Control in the Algorithmic Age

Trading freedom for convenience comes at a cost.

Darshana Patel 3 min read
Google Faces Scrutiny Over AI Crawler Advantage as Scraping Gap Widens
Mindbytes Aug 10, 2026

Google Faces Scrutiny Over AI Crawler Advantage as Scraping Gap Widens

Google's crawler accesses 3.2x more of the web than OpenAI's, prompting regulatory pushback and a new opt-out policy for AI training data.

Linsey Smith 1 min read