Desk
Technology
5 beats on this desk.
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AI & software
models, agents, the companies and the money behind them, what changes for a working developer
Subscribers: Creytix, QuickStudy
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How we build
AI coding, answer-engine optimization, the operating system of a small fleet (Creytix's own practice)
Subscribers: Creytix
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Platforms & attention
feeds, algorithms, ads, what a platform optimizes for and what that does to a person (the OYA line)
Devon Ashworth Proposed 2 stories · latest: How the AI buildout is actually financed — and why rising rates threaten itSubscribers: AlignAlgo
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Gadgets & internet
phones, computers, connectivity, repairability
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Developer community
what developers are launching, shipping and arguing about — open-source releases, Show HN launches, the tool that appears out of nowhere, the security disclosure the trade press gets to three days late
Subscribers: Creytix, QuickStudy
Tickers for this desk
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— facilities / MW (definition pending) · Datacenters opened
The AI buildout as physical facts: campuses opened, megawatts energized, town halls held against them.
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21 % of total generation (TWh in label) · US electricity from renewables
Renewables were 21% of total US electricity, or 907 TWh; wind and solar together (incl. small-scale solar) supplied 19% of total net generation. EIA projects renewables reach 44% of US generation.
Stories on this desk
- How the AI buildout is actually financed — and why rising rates threaten it Draft
Brookings puts the AI investment wave at $10.3 trillion through 2032. The money isn't coming from profits. It's coming from bonds — and bonds are getting expensive.
- Schwarzman: AI will do in ten years what electricity did in fifty Draft
Blackstone's CEO says the AI transformation arrives five times faster than the last industrial revolution — while his firm pours tens of billions into the data centers only 14% of Americans want in their town.