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Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peak Central bank says market concentration hasn’t been this extreme in 50 years.…

Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peak
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/bank-of-england-warns-ai-stock-bubble-rivals-2000-dotcom-peak/

Coffee naps might be the weirdest—and smartest—way to recharge It sounds backward, but research suggests a cup of coffee followed by a short nap could sharpen f…

Coffee naps might be the weirdest—and smartest—way to recharge
https://apple.news/A_H1QhdshRwiqhTQ1OOBDxg

Smart glasses are back. Gen Z is trying to stop them. Contrary to stereotype, young people are pushing for clearer consent and better digital privacy i…

Smart glasses are back. Gen Z is trying to stop them.
https://apple.news/AN_8bXbFFTNytwvezr4RexQ

America is escaping its office crisis The torment caused by covid-19 and high interest rates appears to be over…

America is escaping its office crisis
https://economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/09/01/america-is-escaping-its-office-crisis

Gordon Ramsay reveals skin cancer diagnosis and advises sunscreen use The celebrity chef and “Hell’s Kitchen” star underwent surgery for basal cell carcinoma and share…

Gordon Ramsay reveals skin cancer diagnosis and advises sunscreen use
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/08/31/gordon-ramsay-skin-cancer-diagnosis/

"Scamlexity": When Agentic AI Browsers Get Scammed We Put Agentic AI Browsers to the Test - They Clicked, They Paid, They Failed…

"Scamlexity": When Agentic AI Browsers Get Scammed
https://guard.io/labs/scamlexity-we-put-agentic-ai-browsers-to-the-test-they-clicked-they-paid-they-failed

Lunar soil machine developed to build bricks using sunlight Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 30, 2025 - A Chinese research team has created a prototype machine that t…

Lunar soil machine developed to build bricks using sunlight
https://www.moondaily.com/reports/Lunar_soil_machine_developed_to_build_bricks_using_sunlight_999.html

How I Learned to Stop Teaching and Love AI Like a fool, I used to resist, but no more. In the past, I railed against the rise of AI. I preac…

How I Learned to Stop Teaching and Love AI
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how-i-learned-to-stop-teaching-and-love-ai

They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back. Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-schoo…

They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
https://www.wsj.com/business/chatgpt-ai-cheating-college-blue-books-5e3014a6

Opinion | How ChatGPT Surprised Me What if we come to love and depend on the A.I.s — if we prefer them in many cases to our fellow h…

Opinion | How ChatGPT Surprised Me
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/opinion/chat-gpt5-open-ai-future.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share%26referringSource=articleShare

TBM 374: Strategy & Urgency This is a post about strategy and prioritization, and how reframing urgency can help you be more …

TBM 374: Strategy & Urgency
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-374-proactive-vs-reactive-urgency?utm_source=post-email-title%26publication_id=24711%26post_id=171788590%26utm_campaign=email-post-title%26isFreemail=true%26r=lvk38%26triedRedirect=true%26utm_medium=email

Some countries are suspending postal deliveries to the U.S. Here’s why. Postal companies in several countries, including France, Germany and the U.K., plan to suspend pa…

Some countries are suspending postal deliveries to the U.S. Here’s why.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/23/us-tariffs-international-post/

Watch the full episode with Ezra Klein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smb7hy6KufQ00:00 Should Yo… AI Research Feels Smart … Until It Isn’t — Ezra Klein

AI Research Feels Smart … Until It Isn’t — Ezra Klein
https://youtube.com/watch?v=A_WCaFmQaIw%26si=8NOdvm039qcCTEEy

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.…

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-mass-delusion-event/683909/

IFTF - Strategy in the Age of Chaos: Retooling Foresight for Today's World …

IFTF - Strategy in the Age of Chaos: Retooling Foresight for Today's World
https://www.iftf.org/insights/strategy-in-the-age-of-chaos-retooling-foresight-for-todays-world/

VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power The German car-maker says its "optional power upgrade" is designed to give customers more choice.…

VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62weyp4qqgo

Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying The U.S. Forest Service has fought decades of efforts to better protect its crews — sending them …

Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/us/wildfire-firefighters-masks-smoke.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share%26referringSource=articleShare

AI Is Bringing Back In-Person Job Interviews More companies are returning to face-to-face meetings to counter cheating by candidates—and more …

AI Is Bringing Back In-Person Job Interviews
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/ai-job-interview-virtual-in-person-305f9fd0?st=7wmDFr

This New York skyscraper had a 1-in-16 chance of collapse. Only one man knew | CNN Unbeknownst to Citicorp Center’s owners, occupants and even architects, a potentially catastrophi…

This New York skyscraper had a 1-in-16 chance of collapse. Only one man knew | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/15/style/citicorp-center-new-york-skyscraper

Why This Billionaire Berkeley Professor Won’t Leave The Classroom Tech giants including Google fund Ion Stoica's lab, from which he launched companies like $62 bil…

Why This Billionaire Berkeley Professor Won’t Leave The Classroom
https://www.forbes.com/sites/martinadilicosa/2025/08/08/why-this-databricks-billionaire-ion-stoica-berkeley-professor-wont-leave-the-classroom/

The Imperfectionist: Navigating by aliveness .ck-link { text-decoration: underline; } @media only screen { .email * { word-break: break-word; …

The Imperfectionist: Navigating by aliveness
https://ckarchive.com/b/zlughnhk8772ma7qrr9qehwzgng00f6

Exclusive | General Catalyst’s Latest AI Bet Is in IT Venture-capital firm leads $74 million investment in holding company Titan, aiming to inject AI i…

Exclusive | General Catalyst’s Latest AI Bet Is in IT
https://www.wsj.com/articles/general-catalysts-latest-ai-bet-is-in-it-3a2f5b03?st=7bZVfr

How Attention Sinks Keep Language Models Stable
https://hanlab.mit.edu/blog/streamingllm

New Sea Lion Disease Outbreak In Pacific Ocean This Year Killing Animals, and Also Threatening Dogs Bay Area sea lions are getting sick at a very high rate this year with a disease that is transmis…

New Sea Lion Disease Outbreak In Pacific Ocean This Year Killing Animals, and Also Threatening Dogs
https://sfist.com/2025/08/07/new-sea-lion-disease-outbreak-in-pacific-ocean-this-year-killing-animals-and-also-threatening-dogs/

Why the Far Right Hates Churchill The accepted historical narrative of the past 80 years—that it was morally right for the U.S. and…

Why the Far Right Hates Churchill
https://www.wsj.com/politics/why-the-far-right-hates-churchill-20fdc710

On Additive and Extractive Technologies - Cal Newport A reader recently sent me ​a Substack post​ they thought I might like. “I bought my kids an old-s…

On Additive and Extractive Technologies - Cal Newport
https://calnewport.com/on-additive-and-extractive-technologies/

AI Is Listening to Your Meetings. Watch What You Say. New note-taking software catches every word from your meetings—including the parts you didn’t wan…

AI Is Listening to Your Meetings. Watch What You Say.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-notetaker-meeting-transcripts-be9bc4cc?st=7Moyku

ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results OpenAI scrambles to remove personal ChatGPT conversations from Google results.…

ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/chatgpt-users-shocked-to-learn-their-chats-were-in-google-search-results/

How 100 Enterprise CIOs Are Building and Buying Gen AI in 2025 16 key shifts in how enterprises are budgeting for, buying, and deploying gen AI in 2025—and beyo…

How 100 Enterprise CIOs Are Building and Buying Gen AI in 2025
https://a16z.com/ai-enterprise-2025/

How Nvidia GB300 NVL72 Provides Data Centres Steady AI Power Nvidia’s new GB300 NVL72 features onboard energy storage and control systems to reduce power spik…

How Nvidia GB300 NVL72 Provides Data Centres Steady AI Power
https://datacentremagazine.com/news/how-nvidia-gb300-nvl72-provides-data-centres-steady-ai-power