11 Jun 2026
Friday essay: despite the AI hype, some experts warn of a bubble – what happens if it pops?
In the last few years, the hype around artificial intelligence has become stratospheric. Riding a wave of venture capital, tech leaders promised us AI would revolutionise work , boost productivity and lead to incredible new breakthroughs. OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, set a new record when it attained US$110 billion in investments several months ago – and its CEO, Sam Altman, recently claimed…
11 Jun 2026
Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot is apparently still being used to produce and host nonconsensual explicit images and videos of women, months after Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI said it would introduce restrictions to stop the creation of potentially harmful sexualized deepfakes.
11 Jun 2026
Coinbase launches AI agent accounts that can trade and spend on your behalf
Coinbase announced Wednesday that it had launched "Coinbase for Agents," a new platform that lets AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude connect to users’ Coinbase accounts to trade crypto, access data and eventually make payments and purchases autonomously.
11 Jun 2026
Coinbase’s new tool can help agents trade and pay for premium research
As AI agent traffic surpasses human traffic on the internet, companies working in commerce and finance are building tools that allow agents to take action on behalf of users at a rapid pace.
11 Jun 2026
OpenAI Could Soon Drop Prices To Compete With Anthropic, Report Says
OpenAI is considering major price cuts for its AI tools in a bid to compete with rival Anthropic, according to a Wall Street Journal report, as both companies prepare to go public later this year and the steep usage cost prompts some companies to scale back or limit usage.
11 Jun 2026
SPCX Is Firing Up: 3 Businesses To Breakdown
After much anticipation, SpaceX (SPCX) begins trading tomorrow. The headlines will focus on the $2 trillion valuation and the likely significant volatility in the price once the SPCX begins trading. Before you decide whether to participate, it is worth understanding what you are actually buying, because SPCX is not one business. It is three very different businesses.
11 Jun 2026
OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users: WSJ
OpenAI Ceo Sam Altman speaks to journalists after meeting with US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 3, 2026. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images
10 Jun 2026
Apple’s new Siri AI knows when to shut up
Apple’s new Siri AI is finally here, and so far, it seems like it works . I have access and have been messing around with it, and my biggest impression so far is that Siri AI is quite curt — which I mean as a compliment.
10 Jun 2026
Breaking news, and how the end might begin
A couple weeks ago, Steve Eisman, who predicted the subprime mess (Steve Carrell played him in The Big Short ), interviewed me, and asked me how the AI boom might all fall apart. For reasons I am about to explain, that interview, recorded May 22, now seems supremely relevant. Here are two snippets. (Some parts of Snippet 1 are currently paywalled in a separate video but may come out soon for…
