America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints(noahpinion.blog)

199 points by jxmorris12 1 year ago | 261 comments

How the AI Bubble Will Pop(derekthompson.org)

136 points by hdvr 1 year ago | 236 comments

Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer(isolveproblems.substack.com)

1091 points by axelriet 6 months ago | 517 comments

A former Azure Core engineer's Substack essay, first in a series, on decisions and complacency at Microsoft that eroded trust in Azure, including with OpenAI.

Will the AI backlash spill into the streets?(gabrielweinberg.com)

19 points by paulpauper 1 year ago | 32 comments

Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75%(blog.drjoshcsimmons.com)

145 points by joshcsimmons 10 months ago | 96 comments

Is Steve Ballmer the Most Underrated CEO of the 21st Century?(blog.jovono.com)

28 points by ejz 2 years ago | 44 comments

GLP-1s are breaking life insurance(glp1digest.com)

394 points by alexslobodnik 1 year ago | 481 comments

A GLP-1 Digest Substack post by Ashwin Sharma, MD arguing that GLP-1 drugs make applicants look healthy at underwriting while their risk later returns, disrupting life insurance.

Do AI companies work?(benn.substack.com)

375 points by herbertl 2 years ago | 395 comments

A Substack essay by Benn Stancil questioning whether AI model companies have viable business models, subtitled "The market needs to be irrational for you to stay solvent."

We're Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI(derekthompson.org)

11 points by abe94 24 days ago | 8 comments

A paid Substack essay by Derek Thompson arguing the AI buildout has raised costs rather than delivering cheap abundance, fueling American hostility to AI.

Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy(news.cornell.edu)

411 points by giuliomagnifico 9 months ago | 748 comments

Cornell Chronicle article on research finding that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are associated with reductions in Americans' grocery and food purchases.

The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong(derekthompson.org)

474 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 717 comments

Derek Thompson Substack essay arguing that antitrust critics blaming homebuilder monopolies for America's housing problems are wrong.

Embeddings are underrated (2024)(technicalwriting.dev)

441 points by jxmorris12 1 year ago | 133 comments

An essay arguing that text embeddings are an underrated machine learning tool, especially for technical writing and documentation work.