Roundup: AI isn't "democratization" and beware the "next big thing"
Stay tuned to the end for a clip on AI animation being "an insult to life itself"
Paris Marx
Paris Marx is a Canadian tech critic and host of the award-winning Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.
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Master Plan 3 is a conservative vision for the future
Elon Musk wants to electrify everything, while changing nothing else
Will Elon Musk's new Master Plan address Tesla's real challenges?
The CEO has a poor record of delivering on his past master plan promises
Roundup: Elon Musk's China links and Microsoft's misleading merger arguments
Read to the end for another worrying aspect of proliferating AI tools
Netflix is bringing back piracy
The streaming reality is a far cry from its early promise
Meta Verified is a sign of stagnation
Social media's best days are behind it, but companies will squeeze users as they decline
Roundup: Chatting with Sydney Bing*, Elon's narcissism, and a warning from Keanu Reeves
Plus, stay tuned to the end for a more realistic Amazon ad
Tech was supposed to make cars safer. It didn’t deliver.
A new Sony concept vehicle exemplifies a worrying trend kicked off by Tesla
Roundup: The reality of ChatGPT, Woz feels "robbed" by Musk, and Microsoft’s merger woes
Stay tuned to the end for a fun (not AI-generated) illustration