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The Nanny Layer

AI products ship a values layer the buyer cannot see, override or escape

· 16 min read

  1. political economyPostscript: the price of no verdict

    Meta settled with 48 states before any court ruled. The largest payout in the history of the technology industry is a single bad quarter.

  2. Internet governanceA .horse by any other name

    ICANN's gTLD expansion sells suffixes the market has priced at nothing

  3. managementMBAs Considered Harmful?

    Organisations destroy their ability to evaluate the claims their futures depend on — rationally, and on purpose

  4. fiscal policyThe Great Mispricing

    Corporations now run at scales beyond entire advanced economies, and this time no state can hold them

  5. AIDead Load

    The Keystone's six preconditions, ninety days on: a record IPO that priced then sank, a government letter that switched off a frontier model, and a rulebook that moved just in time to catch the deal.

  6. ARMUp for Scraps

    Apple's Macbook Neo is just an example of why the computer industry is moving to another architecture