AI boom: massive investment, cloud/chip demand and billion‑dollar startups fuel aggressive deployment. Consequences: intensified workloads, legal and safety fights, fraud and regulatory scrutiny as agents and scraping trigger court battles and societal harms.
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WSJ: Oracle Shares Jump as AI Demand Outpaces Supply (Mar. 10, 2026)
Oracle raised its 2027 revenue outlook to $90 billion as AI-driven demand for cloud infrastructure outpaces supply, and its shares rose. It is using AI to cut development teams, grow cloud sales, and pursue financing, prompting investor scrutiny. -
WSJ: Nvidia Invests in Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab (Mar. 10, 2026)
Nvidia is investing in Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab, supplying at least one gigawatt of chips for training and serving models. -
WSJ: The Billion-Dollar AI Startup That Was Founded by Teenagers (Mar. 10, 2026)
Teen-founded AI startup Aaru, now valued at $1 billion, uses thousands of AI agents to simulate human responses for product research, pricing, and polling. -
Financial Times: Yann LeCun’s AI start-up raises more than $1bn in Europe’s largest seed round (Mar. 10, 2026)
Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs raised $1.03bn in Europe’s largest seed round, valuing it at $3.5bn, with investors including Bezos, Temasek, and Nvidia. -
Axios: Facebook parent Meta acquires Moltbook, an AI agent social network (Mar. 10, 2026)
Meta acquired Moltbook, a social network for AI agents, and hired Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into Meta Superintelligence Labs. -
Don't Worry About the Vase: Claude Code, Claude Cowork and Codex #5 (Mar. 9, 2026)
A critique of Anthropic and the Department of War is shelved to avoid escalation. Agentic coding, via Claude Code, is rapidly boosting developer productivity, adding revenue, and enabling practical tools like data analysis and school-finder apps. -
WSJ Opinion: The Medicaid Autism Racket (Mar. 8, 2026)
Federal probes and audits reveal widespread Medicaid fraud in autism therapy, with sham centers, unqualified staff, inflated hours, and millions in improper payments. My take: send the scammers to jail. Autism treatments and therapies are both expensive and vital for children with real needs. These shysters -
WSJ: AI Isn’t Lightening Workloads. It’s Making Them More Intense. (Mar. 11, 2026)
New data show workplace AI often intensifies work rather than reducing it: users double email, messaging, and chat time, while focused work falls. Productivity rises, but cognitive overload, burnout, and longer hours are risks as adoption grows. -
NY Times: A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety (Mar. 10, 2026)
Grieving parents blame A.I. chatbots and social media for their children’s deaths, and are uniting to demand stronger safety laws, lobbying Congress, states, and attending trials. -
Simon Willison: Perhaps not Boring Technology after all (Mar. 9, 2026)
Worries that large language models will push teams toward well-represented tools are fading. Modern coding agents, with long contexts and skills, can learn new or private libraries from docs, examples, and testing, so they don’t force boring technology choices. -
CNBC: Amazon wins court order to block Perplexity's AI shopping agent (Mar. 10, 2026)
A judge temporarily blocked Perplexity’s Comet browser access to Amazon’s site after Amazon sued, saying hidden AI agents scraped pages and accessed accounts without authorization.