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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

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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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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…

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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...

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com
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Revenge of The Business Idiot wheresyoured.at
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AI Weekly's analysis →
  • 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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Tech Influence Watch influence.citationneeded.news
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