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Pew Measured It: A Third of the New Web Is AI-Written
AI in Marketing
· 5 min read

Pew Measured It: A Third of the New Web Is AI-Written

Pew ran 490,000 pages through a detector. The useful part is the list of stylistic markers it published, because you can audit your own archive against it.

Pew Research Center AEO AI content
Mark Cuban: Data Centers Become Pickleball Courts
Business Strategy
· 6 min read

Mark Cuban: Data Centers Become Pickleball Courts

Cuban compares the AI buildout to the 1990s fiber glut. Alphabet's free cash flow already went negative. What that changes for companies buying AI.

Mark Cuban AI capex dot-com bubble
Google Bid $10M for Spirit Airlines' Internal Data
Business Strategy
· 6 min read

Google Bid $10M for Spirit Airlines' Internal Data

Google won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' emails, Teams chats and source code. Then the flight attendants' union stopped the sale cold.

Spirit Airlines Google AI training data
LinkedIn's AI Slop Button Puts a Price on Your Reach
AI in Marketing
· 6 min read

LinkedIn's AI Slop Button Puts a Price on Your Reach

Pangram found over 40% of LinkedIn long-form posts are fully AI-written. LinkedIn added a report button and classifiers that trim recommended reach.

LinkedIn AI content Pangram
NVIDIA Guaranteed $105B of OpenAI's Lease Obligations
Business Strategy
· 7 min read

NVIDIA Guaranteed $105B of OpenAI's Lease Obligations

NVIDIA backstopped up to $105B of OpenAI's Ohio lease. It only pays if OpenAI fails, and it terminates the moment OpenAI earns a credit rating.

NVIDIA OpenAI circular financing
Bending Spoons Bought Airtable. Now Check Your Plan.
Business Strategy
· 6 min read

Bending Spoons Bought Airtable. Now Check Your Plan.

Airtable grew past $480M ARR at 20% and still sold for $1.285B cash against an $11B mark. Picking a vendor means picking its next owner too.

Airtable Bending Spoons SaaS valuation
FairMindSim: An Inverted U Built From Just 10 Models
Business Strategy
· 7 min read

FairMindSim: An Inverted U Built From Just 10 Models

A KDD 2026 paper says mid-tier models punish twice as hard as humans. The curve rests on 10 models and a correlation that misses conventional significance.

FairMindSim KDD 2026 AI moral judgment
Altman's 6 Months: Who Owns Your AI's Delete Button?
AI in Marketing
· 7 min read

Altman's 6 Months: Who Owns Your AI's Delete Button?

Altman says a ChatGPT descendant will watch your screen and record every meeting within six months. Nobody in marketing signed the retention policy.

Sam Altman OpenAI persistent memory
MSO: capital doesn't buy the firm, it buys the platform
Business Strategy
· 8 min read

MSO: capital doesn't buy the firm, it buys the platform

Private equity can't own a law firm. So it buys the MSO instead: the brand, the billing systems, the case data, the AI licenses. Then it rents them back.

MSO private equity professional services

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