#Economics
The AI Debt Deadlock: Why Oracle's Multi-Billion-Dollar Contracts No Longer Reassure the Market
The primary barrier to the development of artificial intelligence is no longer a shortage of powerful chips, but the colossal cost of borrowed capital required to build infrastructure.
Как алгоритмы McDonald’s рассчитывают стоимость бургеров для каждого ресторана
Сеть фастфуда McDonald’s внедрила проприетарную систему машинного обучения, которая анализирует миллионы чеков и конкурентную среду, чтобы предлагать оптимальные цены франчайзи.
The Human Face of Algorithms: Why Tech Giants Benefit from Inspiring Fear of AI Consciousness
Corporations and the media actively endow neural networks with human traits and agency. We explore how narratives about "escaped models" and the threat of AGI conceal attempts to monopolize the market and obscure the fundamental limitations of the technology.
ChatGPT Ads Reaches $1 Billion Annual Run Rate as OpenAI Expands Self-Service Platform
OpenAI's advertising platform has hit a $1 billion revenue run rate in under 200 days, prompting a rollout of its self-service ad tools across Europe, India, and the Middle East alongside stricter EU regulatory oversight.
Meta's $18B Settlement Reshapes Teen Safety, Apple Prepares First Foldable iPhone
Meta agrees to extensive teen protections in an $18 billion settlement, Apple gears up to reveal its long-awaited foldable smartphone, and researchers develop edible cookies from plastic waste.
What role humans will play in the era of advanced AI: takeaways from the ICML conference
At the ICML conference, Professor Arvind Narayanan explained why artificial intelligence will not replace specialists, but will instead shift their core tasks from generating solutions to critically evaluating and overseeing them.
AI Price War: How Open Models and Cheap Inference Are Erasing Giants' Superprofits
The artificial intelligence market has been gripped by fierce price competition. Open architectures like Qwen and GLM, forced price cuts by OpenAI, and in-house hardware development are transforming access to neural networks from a premium service into a basic utility.
The Era of Robots and Abundance: Why Elon Musk's Rosy Predictions Clash with Economics
Elon Musk predicts an era of limitless abundance and the elimination of money as early as 2036. However, macroeconomic laws, resource scarcity, and labor market realities cast doubt on such an optimistic scenario.
Elon Musk on the Future in 10 Years: Superintelligent AI, the End of Money, and the Era of Absolute Abundance
The head of Tesla and SpaceX shared his vision for the next decade: the displacement of human labor by neural networks, China's role in the tech race, the transition to unconditional income, and self-regulation in AI safety.