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- I Will Never Respect A WebsiteApr 14, 2026Edward Zitron
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- Premium: The Hater's Guide to OpenAIApr 10, 2026Edward Zitron
Soundtrack: The Dillinger Escape Plan — Setting Fire To Sleeping Giants In what The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz and Ronan Farrow called a “tense call” after his brief ouster from OpenAI in 2023, Sam Altman seemed unable to reckon with a “pattern of deception”
- AI Is Really WeirdApr 08, 2026Edward Zitron
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- News: OpenAI CFO Doesn't Believe Company Ready For IPO, Unsure Revenue Will Support CommitmentsApr 06, 2026Edward Zitron
Executive Summary OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar has, per The Information, said that OpenAI is not ready to go public in 2026, in part because of the "risks from its spending commitments" and not being sure whether the company's revenue growth would support its spending commitments. Friar
- Premium: AI Isn't Too Big To FailApr 03, 2026Edward Zitron
Soundtrack — Soundgarden — Blow Up The Outside World A lot of people try to rationalize the AI bubble by digging up the past. Billions of dollars of waste are justified by saying “OpenAI just like Uber” (it isn’t) and “the data center buildout is
- The Subprime AI Crisis Is HereMar 31, 2026Edward Zitron
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- Premium: How Much Of The AI Bubble Is Real?Mar 27, 2026Edward Zitron
I’m turning 40 in a month or so, and at 40 years young, I’m old enough to remember as far back as December 11 2025, when Disney and OpenAI “reached an agreement” to “bring beloved characters from across Disney’s brands to
- The AI Industry Is Lying To YouMar 24, 2026Edward Zitron
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- Premium: The Hater's Guide To AdobeMar 20, 2026Edward Zitron
I hear from a lot of people that are filled with bilious fury about the tech industry, but few companies have pissed off the world more than Adobe. As the foremost monopolist in software, web and graphic design, Adobe has created one of the single-most abusive, usurious freakshows in capitalist
- Why Are We Still Doing This?Mar 17, 2026Edward Zitron
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- Premium: The Hater's Guide To The SaaSpocalypseMar 13, 2026Ed Zitron
Soundtrack: The Dillinger Escape Plan — Black Bubblegum To understand the AI bubble, you need to understand the context in which it sits, and that larger context is the end of the hyper-growth era in software that I call the Rot-Com Bubble. Generative AI, at first, appeared to be
- The Beginning Of HistoryMar 10, 2026Ed Zitron
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- The AI Bubble Is An Information WarMar 03, 2026Ed Zitron
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- Premium: The Hater's Guide to Private EquityFeb 27, 2026Ed Zitron
We have a global intelligence crisis, in that a lot of people are being really fucking stupid. As I discussed in this week’s free piece, alleged financial analyst Citrini Research put out a truly awful screed called the “2028 Global Intelligence Crisis” — a slop-filled scare-fiction
- On NVIDIA and AnalyslopFeb 26, 2026Edward Zitron
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