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The economics of AI infrastructure are stranger than they appear

Ben Thompson on why the capex numbers don't make sense unless you squint.

Persona collapse: when AI assistants lose character mid-conversation

Actual research on something everyone who uses these tools has noticed.

Why newsletters are the sleeper AI marketing play

The dark pattern taxonomy for AI interfaces

If you're building anything with AI, run through this checklist.

Against the content calendar

Solid argument that planning replaces thinking more often than it enables it.

The prompt injection attack surface is larger than you think

Simon doing the work everyone else should be reading.

Claude's new system prompt approach for agentic workflows

Why I'm not convinced by AI-generated video yet

Good articulation of the uncanny valley problem at a creative level.

Google Search is now showing fewer blue links

The data confirms what we all suspected.

How Notion is building with AI without losing the product soul

The case against synthetic media authenticity labels

Labels create the illusion of a solved problem. The actual problem is downstream.

How Figma is thinking about AI in design workflows

Less hype than I expected. Worth the read.

Why your ecommerce content strategy needs a semantic layer

Perplexity's new advertising model is interesting and probably bad

The sponsored answer problem doesn't have a clean solution.

Small language models are having a moment

On-device inference is going to change mobile apps dramatically.