(Image credit: Getty Images/YUI MOK) Managing asset depreciation is a core component of most modern businesses, but where you can spread the cost of some assets over a decade, or less, modern GPUs threaten an altogether more aggressive lifecycle. The gains being made generation upon generation,…

SummaryCompanies Tech giants' bond issuance raises market absorption concernsInvestors demand premiums for new tech bond dealsAI spending doubts linked to debt financing needs NEW YORK, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Investors are growing uneasy that the rapid rise in public debt used to bankroll AI investments…

combatting con crud Organizers had a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived. Violet Blue, WIRED.com – Nov 22, 2025 7:00 AM | 47 Story text Size Width * Links * Subscribers only Learn more Hacker conferences—like all conventions—are notorious for giving…

AI is getting so good now (at the end of 2025) that I now have a new, primary recommendation going into 2026: Think very carefully about where you get help from AI. I use a Job vs. Gym analogy. If we're working a manual labor job it's fine to have AI lift heavy things for us because the actual goal…

I want to respond to this blog post that's arguing that prompt injection strings are essentially zero-days that we should not share with attackers. disesdi.substack.com AI Red Teaming Has An OPSEC Problem Don't buy, invest in, or pay for a course about 'AI red teaming' until you read this Nov 23,…

I want to respond to my buddy Joseph Thacker's blog post about whether Prompt Injection is a vulnerability. josephthacker.com Prompt Injection Isn't a Vulnerability (Most of the Time) Prompt injection is almost never the root cause of AI vulnerabilities—the actual issue is what the model is…

A series of genetic tests have claimed to finally uncover the true identity of Jack the Ripper, and it could be one of the Metropolitan Police's key suspects back in the day News Edward Easton and Jane Lavender Associate Editor 08:00, 29 Nov 2025Updated 12:54, 29 Nov 2025 DeeperDive is a GenAI…

Listen to this story Illustration: Timo Lenzen On November 20th American statisticians released the results of a survey. Buried in the data is a trend with implications for trillions of dollars of spending. Researchers at the Census Bureau ask firms if they have used artificial intelligence “in…

We’re going to largely skip markets again, because the sweater is rapidly unraveling in other areas as I pull on threads. Suffice it to say that the market is LARGELY unfolding as I had expected — credit stress is rising, particularly in the tech sector. Many are now pointing to the rising CDS for…

Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, a new analysis using two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across southern and central Europe, from Spain and Italy to Poland and parts of the UK. Scientists at University College London (UCL), working with…

Hello, my friends. Have you been feeling too sane lately? Have I got something for you! It is a company called CoreWeave. You may not have heard of it because it’s not doing the consumer-facing part of AI. It’s a data center company, the kind people talk about when they say they want to invest in…

Laine Bergeson November 24, 2025 COVID-19 Insta_photos / iStock A brief communication published last week in NPJ Primary Care Respiratory Medicine outlines the substantial economic burden of long COVID worldwide, estimating that persistent symptoms after COVID infection cost the global economy…

Americans have grown sour on one of the longtime key ingredients of the American dream. Almost two-thirds of registered voters say that a four-year college degree isn’t worth the cost, according to a new NBC News poll, a dramatic decline over the last decade. Just 33% agree a four-year college…

Photo by Fachy Marín on Unsplash The Fire Season At a recent CEO dinner in Menlo Park, someone asked the familiar question: Are we in an AI bubble? One of the dinner guests, a veteran of multiple Silicon Valley cycles, reframed the conversation entirely. She argued for thinking of this moment as a…

People walk on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 15, 2025. Joseph Prezioso | AFP | Getty Images Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday released a study that found that artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor…

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal The Oatmeal Home Comics Animations Games Books Subscribe Blog A cartoonist's review of AI art This is a comic about AI art. A note from the author Special thanks to my friends Matt Harding and Allie Brosh for their insight and inspiration when writing…

Here’s a thought experiment you’ll come across on social media: Imagine your 80-year-old self looking back at the day you're having right now. What would they give to inhabit your body again, to have your knees that don't ache, your schedule that seems so overwhelmingly full, your problems that feel…

The Ukrainian Army is knocking a once-hyped Russian superweapon out of the sky by jamming it with a song and tricking it into thinking it’s in Lima, Peru. The Kremlin once called its Kh-47M2 Kinzhal ballistic missiles “invincible.” Joe Biden said the missile was “almost impossible to stop.” Now…

I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my job requires me to commit sociopathic acts of evil that directly contribute to making the world a measurably worse place from Monday through Friday, five…

The Big Short guy is short on trust in the state of the current economy. Earlier this week, it came to light that Michael Burry, famously depicted by Christian Bale in Adam McKay’s telling of the 2008 housing crisis, is shutting the doors to his hedge fund Scion Capital because he believes the…

updated Microsoft reported earnings for the quarter ended Sept. 30 on Wednesday after market close and buried in its financial filings were a couple of passages suggesting that OpenAI suffered a net loss of $11.5 billion or more during the quarter. Let's look first at page 9 of the official earnings…

BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Omaha, NE (BRK.A; BRK.B) – November 10, 2025 Today, Warren E. Buffett converted 1,800 A shares into 2,700,000 B shares in order to give these B shares to four family foundations: 1,500,000 shares to The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation and…

Colorized transmission electron micrograph of Avian influenza A H5N1 viruses. Credit: Public Domain Researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have identified a few instances of asymptomatic human infection with avian influenza A (H5N1) virus. Getting to know H5N1 avian…

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As a graduate student in the 1980s, Yann LeCun had trouble finding an adviser for his Ph.D. thesis on machine learning—because no one else was studying the topic, he recalled later. More recently, he’s become the odd man out at Meta. Despite worldwide renown as one of the godfathers of artificial…

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese technology giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its stake in Nvidia, raising $5.8 billion to pour into other investments. It also reported its profit nearly tripled in the first half of this fiscal year from a year earlier. Tokyo-based SoftBank Group Corp. said it sold the…

Anthropic made headlines Thursday when it released research claiming that a previously unknown Chinese state-sponsored hacking group used the company’s Claude AI generative AI product to breach at least 30 different organizations. According to Anthropic’s report, the threat actor was able to bypass…

The state-backed hackers who breached cybersecurity company F5 Inc. broke in beginning in late 2023 and lurked in the company’s systems until being discovered in August of this year, according to people who were briefed by F5 about the incident. The attackers penetrated F5’s computer systems by…

On 14 October 2025, the CEO of OpenAI made an extraordinary announcement. “We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive,” it says, “to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues.” As a psychiatrist who studies emerging psychosis in adolescents and young adults, this was news to me. Researchers…

Removing carbon from the atmosphere will be necessary to avoid catastrophic tipping points, one of the world’s leading scientists has warned, as even in the best-case scenario the world will heat by about 1.7C. Johan Rockström of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, who is one of the…

Many organizations rushing to cut staff in the name of AI efficiency are expected to quietly rehire those roles – often "offshore or at lower salary." According to Forrester's "Predictions 2026: The Future Of Work" analysis, half of AI-attributed layoffs are likely to be reversed. Tech industry grad…

OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said on Wednesday that the company is not planning to go public anytime soon, speaking on stage at the Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live conference. “IPO is not on the cards right now,” Friar said. “We are continuing to get the company into a state of…

The fact that Sam Altman is a liar is no longer news. As I argued here in late 2023, Altman truly was fired for being “not completely candid” — just like the board said. Recent books by Karen Hao and Keach Hagey pretty much confirm this. I dissected his 2023 Senate testimony here. But just in case…

AI may not simply be “a bubble,” or even an enormous bubble. It may be the ultimate bubble. What you might cook up in a lab if your aim was to engineer the Platonic ideal of a tech bubble. One bubble to burst them all. I’ll explain. Since ChatGPT’s viral success in late 2022, which drove every…

A joint study by Stanford University researchers and a workplace performance consulting firm published in the Harvard Business Review details the plight of workers who have to fix their colleagues’ AI-generated “workslop,” which they describe as work content that “masquerades as good work, but lacks…

Food and agriculture contribute one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions – second only to the burning of fossil fuels. And yet the vast majority of media coverage of the climate crisis overlooks this critical sector, according to a new data analysis from Sentient Media. The findings suggest that…