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The AI spending boom hit a wall this week as Alphabet and Tesla rattled investors, wiping roughly eight hundred billion dollars from the so-called Magnificent Seven. Bitcoin, interestingly, barely flinched — falling less than one percent while tech stocks had their worst single day since April of twenty twenty five. It's a rare moment where crypto looked like the steadier hand.
That backdrop makes Ed Zitron's latest essay all the more pointed. Writing at Where's Your Ed At, Zitron draws a direct line between today's datacenter buildout and the subprime mortgage crisis — arguing that companies are pouring capital into AI infrastructure against demand projections that may never materialize. It's a provocative read, and given this week's selloff, the timing is striking.
On a lighter note, a previously unpublished short story by Alan Turing has surfaced, and The Guardian describes it as revealing a playful, funny, and yes, somewhat cheeky side of the computing pioneer. It's a reminder that behind the formalism and tragedy of Turing's story was a genuinely witty human being — one whose full personality is still coming into focus nearly seventy years after his death.
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