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geohot Says AI Is the Best Thing to Happen to Art. He Might Be Right.

George Hotz's contrarian take: AI won't kill art — it will kill the profit margins of derivative art. What's left will be rarer, more expensive, and more human than ever.

WEEK 9 · 2026

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The Company That Said No to the Pentagon — And Got Blacklisted for It

Dario Amodei told the Pentagon "we cannot in good conscience accede to their request." The government's response: blacklist Anthropic as a national security risk and hand the $200M contract to OpenAI the same night.

WEEK 9 · 2026

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The AI Vampire — Why Your 10x Productivity Gains Are Draining You Dry

Simon Willison quantified what AI coding agents actually cost in kilowatt-hours. Steve Yegge identified the deeper problem: the human energy vampire that makes 3-4 hours the new productive workday.

WEEK 9 · 2026

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Nvidia Crushes Earnings and Nobody Cares — Welcome to Peak Expectations

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WEEK 9 · 2026

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Block Cuts 4,000 Jobs — Is AI the Cause or the Excuse?

Block just cut 40% of its workforce — over 4,000 people — citing AI efficiency. Shares jumped 24%. But the contrarian read isn't about AI replacing jobs. It's about how many of those jobs needed to exist in the first place.

WEEK 9 · 2026

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OpenAI Closes $110B Round — The Funding Event That Makes Everything Before It Look Like Seed Money

OpenAI just raised $110 billion from Amazon ($50B), Nvidia ($30B), and SoftBank ($30B) at an $840 billion valuation. This isn't a funding round — it's a declaration that AI infrastructure is national-level spending now.

WEEK 9 · 2026