* ‘Her silence was more powerful than words’: how I interviewed a Facebook whistleblower who wasn’t allowed to speak www.thenerve.news/p/carole-cad... * She won a religious exemption from using AI at work. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals. www.businessinsider.com/…
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" (Pre-order: pluralistic.net/kickstarter) Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
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She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals. businessinsider.com
How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members wired.com
Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com
Why AI Has No ROI with Paul Kedrosky podcasts.apple.com
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Revenge of The Business Idiot wheresyoured.at
AI Economics for Dummies mcsweeneys.net
The mayor of Shelbyville, Indiana, says only people who live in ‘shitty houses’ oppose data center theverge.com
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AI's Brokenomics wheresyoured.at
How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots arstechnica.com
Meta glasses wearers hit with paywall to use built-in feature bbc.com
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Perhaps you've encountered the stories about Dialog, an extremely weird secret society associated with Peter "Antichrist" Thiel, whose membership data and details have leaked this week: www.wired.com/story/how-pe... 1/
* Gratitude - Aid Coordination www.kaggle.com/competitions... * Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com 5/
AI Weekly's analysis
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- The AI industry has spent roughly $1.4 trillion against $613 billion in revenue, leaving almost every major player still in the red.
- Amazon leads all spenders at $313 billion invested; NVIDIA is the sole major AI player currently in the black, profiting from hardware.
- The site's anonymous creator predicts clarity on AI viability by 2030 and notes Anthropic recently approached its first profitable quarter.
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"The values described in Claude’s constitution sound very nice, but that hardly matters; it’s dishonest to suggest that Claude is capable of moral reasoning, because it’s not." -Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
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New Better Offline: I’m joined by @paulkedrosky.com to talk about why nobody can find the ROI of AI, why there won’t be a Dot Com Bubble-style recovery for AI data centers, and how Google’s $80bn share sale shows we’re near the end. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee…
Hey look at this * Un internet post americano, resistente a la mierdificación supernovainterna.substack.com/p/traducir-s... * Best sketches from SNL season 51 a.wholelottanothing.org/best-sketche... * Revenge of The Business Idiot www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-... 4/
Hey look at this * AI Economics for Dummies www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-... * The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Cory Doctorow longreads.com/2026/06/17/q... * A guide to ‘greedflation’ timharford.com/2026/06/a-gu... 4/
Hey look at this * The mayor of Shelbyville, Indiana, says only people who live in ‘shitty houses’ oppose data center www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... * Last Idea Factory starlogic.itch.io/last-idea-fa... 3/
Hey look at this * Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity arstechnica.com/security/202... * Cory Doctorow on Why the Internet Feels So Broken thewalrus.ca/cory-doctoro... * AI sticker shock hits corporate America www.axios.com/2026/05/28/a... 4/
AI Weekly's analysis
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- A single enterprise client burned $500 million in one month after implementing no usage controls on employee AI licenses.
- Microsoft canceled most internal Claude Code licenses, marking the clearest enterprise-scale AI spending pullback so far in 2026.
- Four named friction points stall enterprise AI ROI: strategic misalignment, routine query cost spiral, adoption lag, and proprietary data reluctance.
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Canada has a *real* digital sovereignty problem, and it's not AI. Canada will not mitigate its digital sovereignty risk by successfully launching a Made in Canada version of the money-losingest venture in the history of the human species: www.wheresyoured.at/brokenomics/ 33/
* The Right — and Wrong — Way to Criticize AI jacobin.com/2026/06/ai-b... * How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026... 5/
AI Weekly's analysis
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- Sequoia calculated the AI sector needs roughly $600 billion in annual revenue to justify current infrastructure spending, while OpenAI generated about $3.4 billion last year.
- Doctorow argues bubble mechanics route risk to ordinary pension holders because insiders exit first, leaving market-based pension holders to absorb the correction.
- His deflation prescription targets root structure: stronger antitrust enforcement, sectoral bargaining rights, unemployment cushions, and public procurement favoring open AI models.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) reposted
lol “Owners of Meta's AI glasses have been told they must pay a monthly fee if they want full access to a feature that was previously free.”
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Just got word that The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, my book that was released last week, is the #1 bestselling paperback nonfiction book among Canada's 400 independent bookstores!
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