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<\/a><\/p>\nEd Zitron: AI Is Too Expensive<\/a><\/h2>\nAI is, as it stands, not economically viable for anybody involved other than the construction firms, NVIDIA, and the surrounding hardware companies benefitting from the irrational exuberance of a data center buildout that doesn\u2019t appear to be happening at the speed we believed<\/a>. <\/p>\nEvery AI startup loses millions or billions of dollars a year, and nobody appears to have worked out a way to stop hemorrhaging cash. Hyperscalers have invested over $800 billion in the last three years, with plans to add another $700 billion or so in 2026<\/a> and another $1 trillion in 2027, meaning that they need to make at least three trillion dollars in AI specific revenue<\/em> just to break even, and $6 trillion or more for AI to be anything other than a wash<\/em>. I went into detail about this (albeit at a lower, pre-2026\/2027 capex number) in a premium piece last year<\/a>. <\/p>\nSam Newman @ O’Reilly Radar<\/em>: When an Agent Deletes the Production Database<\/a><\/h2>\nRevisiting the PocketOS Incident<\/em><\/p>\nMedium<\/em>: Software Engineer (named Vasilios Syrakis) at Atlassian was laid off on March 12 after 8 years.<\/a><\/h2>\nVasilios responded with a 40-minute YouTube video showing how the company\u2019s entire tech works, free for anyone to copy.<\/em>
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Every AI startup loses millions or billions of dollars a year, and nobody appears to have worked out a way to stop hemorrhaging cash. Hyperscalers have invested over $800 billion in the last three years, with plans to add another $700 billion or so in 2026<\/a> and another $1 trillion in 2027, meaning that they need to make at least three trillion dollars in AI specific revenue<\/em> just to break even, and $6 trillion or more for AI to be anything other than a wash<\/em>. I went into detail about this (albeit at a lower, pre-2026\/2027 capex number) in a premium piece last year<\/a>. <\/p>\n Revisiting the PocketOS Incident<\/em><\/p>\n Vasilios responded with a 40-minute YouTube video showing how the company\u2019s entire tech works, free for anyone to copy.<\/em>Sam Newman @ O’Reilly Radar<\/em>: When an Agent Deletes the Production Database<\/a><\/h2>\n
Medium<\/em>: Software Engineer (named Vasilios Syrakis) at Atlassian was laid off on March 12 after 8 years.<\/a><\/h2>\n
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