AI companies are chomping books, millions of books sacrificed to the ravening maws of the AI machines. And weirdly, I’m okay with it, but I’m going to start by making it sound hideous because that’s more fun. VGT3 is a discreet Amazon operation that has been buying huge quantities of books and destroying them. The books…
I’ve been telling you for years that data about you is being accumulated and sold by tech companies, data brokers, retailers, law enforcement agencies, telecom carriers, financial institutions, insurance brokers, employers, and, well, basically everything about who you are and every single thing you do in private or in public is studied and logged by forces you can’t see…
Three wildly different types of smart glasses are arriving in the next three months. I had Gemini display them side by side in the above picture so you can see how different they are. Wait, you can’t tell them apart? Ha ha I’m a kidder! They all look just like sunglasses. You understand that’s the…
As of mid-2026, there are roughly 70,000 AI companies. About half of all global venture capital funding is pouring into pure-play AI startups. The indications are good. Remember that phrase. It does not mean what you think it means. We’ll come back to that. Right now I want to tell you a Mark Twain story. That…