The Archive
deepfakes
A forensic analysis of the $25M deepfake heist and the systemic collapse of video verification in an age where GAN/RVC pipelines have rendered trust obsolete.
In 2026, AI hallucinations moved from Reddit memes to $67B in enterprise losses and wrongful arrests. Is the 40% 'Verification Tax' killing productivity?
stock-market
Allbirds has traded sneakers for servers. After selling its shoe business for pennies, a radical AI pivot sent its stock soaring 600%. Desperation or genius?
Elon Musk
Apple's private threat to purge X and Grok over sexualized deepfakes reveals that the App Store, not the government, is the world's most effective AI regulator.
Dead Internet Theory
Inside the a16z-backed phone farm flooding TikTok with AI slop: How 1,100 smartphones and industrial automation are making the Dead Internet Theory a reality.
hacking
A hacker breach reveals the $1M 'AI innovation' behind Doublespeed is actually 1,100 physical phones and a lot of unpatched security holes. Read the post-mortem.
Duolingo
Duolingo cut 10% of its workforce to go 'AI-first.' Now, its GPT-4 powered lessons are confidently teaching users incorrect grammar. A catalog of a pivot gone wrong.
Google's AI Overviews hit 91% accuracy, yet at a scale of 5 trillion searches, that 9% failure rate creates 51 million factual lies every hour for global users.