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Progress, Theory of the Firm, Google AI, and Blueprint
OpenAI doesn’t just want to browse the web — it wants to be the web. Atlas is the next move in a plan to make every click, search, and habit orbit ChatGPT.
Actions, AI, E-commerce spend, and Viral Loops
The trillion-dollar AI boom is starting to look fragile — beneath the hype, the promised revolution is stalling, and the real reckoning may not be financial but moral.
Money, Trading, Ships, and Winning
How the Big Four consulting giants are using generative AI to stay relevant — and why the race for speed could cost them the trust they built their empires on.
Bears, Airplane Leasing, Cycling, and AI Chatbots
The Braintree founder has turned himself into a $2 million-a-year longevity experiment — part science, part startup, and part spiritual quest to prove that dying is just another problem to solve.
Reading, Creative Destruction, Bubbles, and Ikea Shopping Bags
Trump’s surprise TikTok deal with Xi Jinping could reshape U.S.–China tech relations — turning a social media flashpoint into the first real test of a new era of algorithm diplomacy.
Social Media, Physics Nobel, Church, and Fashion Design
The US and China are racing to turn AI into humanoid robots — a battle of “brains vs bodies” that could define the next industrial revolution and the future of global labor.
