"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."
"The difference between the IT bubble in the 1990s and the AI bubble today is that the top 10 companies in the S&P 500 today are more overvalued than they were in the 1990s," Slok wrote in a note that was widely circulated online.
"Castillo's flinty satire of the tech industry [transforms] into a sultry romance novel. As we watch Girlie's defenses melt, the book shows a woman slowly surrendering to human experiences that can't be controlled." - The Atlantic
Girlie's effective moderation at Reeden stems from her stoical capacity for labour, revealing the human cost of navigating a high-stakes tech industry haunted by mental toll and superficial support.
Microsoft's Threat Intelligence announced a crackdown by suspending 3,000 Outlook and Hotmail accounts created by North Korean IT workers to disrupt a global fraud scheme.
The part of the bill of most interest to the tech industry was its provision for a moratorium on state-level regulation of AI, which would have rendered all AI regulation that didn't come from the federal government unenforceable for 10 years.