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a16z raising fresh $20b to keep the AI bubble pumping

Crypto being the solution to the bot problem is the most techbro take I have seen so far.

Greenland 'Freedom City'? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north

Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”

UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill

Single Pilot Operations — let’s replace airline copilots with AI!

Your humanoid robot servant: a new hope for AGI! (A Guy Instead)

‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers

Confirmed: Microsoft stops new data centres worldwide

LLMs average <5% on 2025 Math Olympiad; award each other 20x points

Yet another rant about the state of the modern web

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025

Capgemini: Fix your customer service — with chatbots!

China massively overbuilds empty AI data centres

"The Phony Comforts of AI Optimism": Ed Zitron on lazy hypemongers and CoreWeave's brick-wall-headed trajectory

Bonfire of the LLMs: Gartner forecasts ‘extinction’ for generative AI vendors

Customer service sucks, chatbots must be the solution

AGI Escapes Containment; Trump Admin: "Hold My Beer" — Tariff Terathread

OpenAI signs its $40 billion deal with SoftBank! Or maybe $30 billion, probably