The excuse for not regulating AI is that nobody can agree how. The people who built the internet would find that laughable.

The mined materials in a mobile phone, and which countries produced each of them in 2025, from U.S. Geological Survey data.

On the value of cultural references, and the cost of losing them at scale.

Debunking AI apocalypse hype and exposing CEO calls for open-source bans as self-serving tactics to protect corporate moats.

A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless.

A survey of 604 tech and design professionals found that “UX” remains the default name for our field, while alternative names remain fragmented.

How Big AI need us more than we need them.

Interactive simulation: competitive firms over-automate because each captures the full cost saving but only 1/N of the demand destruction.

By betting on extreme ultraviolet lithography long before it worked, ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips.

American capital financed AI on the assumption it would be the next great monopoly.

Digital sovereignty depends less on where software comes from and more on who controls it.

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

The narrative from the AI labs is dazzling: build AGI, unlock astonishing productivity, and watch GDP surge.

This series examines the incoming crisis of human irrelevance and provides a map towards a future where people remain the masters of their destiny.

The horrifying result of 15+ years of steering the tech industry away from solving actual problems in pursuit of eternal growth.

How factory tours connect people to how things are made, despite rising barriers.

In three months, Puneet did more than 60 interviews at 11 companies, including Google, Uber, Amazon, Atlassian, and others.

When everything looks the same, being different becomes valuable again.

We’ve been in “FAANG architecture by default” hell for a while now.

Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away.