New AI bubble indicator: "In Taipei, where convenience stores sell lottery tickets that can win as many as 500 shares of Nvidia stock..." www.wsj.com/world/asia/s...
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Shira Ovide
Профиль VivelyWrites about A.I. for the Washington Post. New Yorker. Bird watcher. Grumpy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/shira-ovide/
Personal tech advice: If you're thinking of buying a smartphone or any other consumer electronics this year, buy it now. You know AI-induced computer chip inflation is real when even Apple is like, ehhhhh we cannot deal. www.wsj.com/tech/apple-p...
Congrats to the SpaceX employees who discovered collective bargaining. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"One CTO told Axios that employees were using AI models to check the weather." www.axios.com/2026/05/28/a...
Short summary of the business, as I believe other outlets have previewed: Starlink, good growth & operating income profitable rocket launches: Meh or negative growth, unprofitable AI: Trash fire
Shira OvideIs this the longest prospectus I've ever read? There are so so many pages of blather? www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
Is this the longest prospectus I've ever read? There are so so many pages of blather? www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
Space Exploration Technologies - S-1www.sec.govGrateful to these astonishing new grads who talked about their trepidation and hopes about bursting into a job market freaked out about AI. 2026 grads are the last class to start college before ChatGPT landed. They're graduating into a profoundly changed world. wapo.st/4fyd6Sp
"He had top legal counsel, and to lose on statute-of-limitations grounds is extremely embarrassing," Andrew Stoltmann told @gerritd.bsky.social
Shira OvideMusk missed the window on the statute of limitations, the most pedestrian end to a trial of fireworks. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Musk missed the window on the statute of limitations, the most pedestrian end to a trial of fireworks. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
"Two months after handing off their personal financial data, the bonus still hadn’t arrived, the chats show. Some staffers who have asked about the payment have been told that the manager in charge of the program is no longer working there..." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The real genius in this piece was not the vibe coding, it was this: "I began having friends over for a ritual I called Admin Night. The idea is to power through your personal sludge in communion with others." www.wired.com/story/normie...
I'm definitely going to buy one of these cushy butt pillows, though. Thanks to the trial participants for the recs. www.wired.com/story/fancy-...
"From one petty bitch to another: beautifully done." I'm going to miss this trial and all the ridiculousness that it unearthed, and @lopatto.bsky.social's commitment to petty gossip. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
"From one petty bitch to another: beautifully done." I'm going to miss this trial and all the ridiculousness that it unearthed, and @lopatto.bsky.social's commitment to petty gossip. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Like @davelee.me, I'm on team HELL NO to constantly verbally commanding computers. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
So fun that literally anything you do is packaged and sold to the highest bidder to train AI. That includes your poop images. www.404media.co/ai-poop-anal...
A reminder that for every dollar of revenue Meta reported this year, it generated 41 cents of operating profit. This company is not in poverty. www.wired.com/story/meta-l...
Bless this Wired lede so hard. "Wednesday’s episode of the Musk v. Altman trial kicked off on Wednesday with a unique proposition: OpenAI wanted to bring its ass into the courtroom, and lay it bare before the jury. It’s a good thing lady justice wears that blindfold." www.wired.com/story/musk-a...
When people in positions of authority are asked, "Do you think A.I. will kill jobs?" I think it would be useful if more of them said, "I don't know. It's complicated." Sam Altman does typically say a version of that. Many other business leaders don't. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/o...
This trial is so weird. "On Thursday, another member of the public sitting in the court put on a sleep mask and appeared to fall asleep soon after Musk’s testimony ended." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
What would happen if banks and businesses that must deal with the fallout of imposter scams enabled by Google banded together to make these scams less common. The answer cannot be, rely on billions of humans to not fall for scams. We know how that ends. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/t... You'd think that if you search for the Grand Hotel Majestic in Bologna that Google would show more prominently a link to the Grand Hotel Majestic in Bologna. Nope. This is a perennial problem for travelers. Google knows it. The travel industry knows it.