As everyone knows, startup tech firms cannot possibly go broke, right?
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government released a plan on Thursday to promote AI adoption across sectors and government,….The plan earmarks billions of dollars to increase adoption, commercialization and sovereign computing capacity, including a C$500 million ($360 million) Canadian Tech Growth Fund to provide “flexible growth capital and investment support” for startups.
Google says AI Mode is the biggest upgrade to Search in 25 years. But users are quietly moving to the exit and the exit says “No AI.”
There are two ways to lose a backup generator. You can misplace one, which is careless. Or you can misplace six hundred of them, which is a filing strategy.
In a recent interview on the Rapid Response podcast, Uber president and chief operating officer Andrew Macdonald said it’s hard to draw a connection between the company’s rising use of Claude Code and innovations meant to serve consumers.
“That link is not there yet,” he said. “Maybe implicitly there’s more that is getting shipped, but it’s very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and ‘Okay now we’re actually producing like 25% more useful consumer features.’”
The comments follow reports that the firm had already burnt through its entire 2026 AI coding tools budget in just four months after incentivizing employees to adopt the technology through an internal leaderboard ranking teams by total AI tool usage. It’s the latest development in a complex quandary arising in enterprise AI adoption: increasing AI use comes with higher costs, even as per-unit AI pricing falls.
“If you’re not actually able to draw a direct line to how [many] useful features and functionality you’re shipping to your users, that trade becomes harder to justify,” Macdonald said.
Mischief is important: Data Poisoning
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In this video, I sit down with ChatGPT and quiz it on guitar pedal history – the Tube Screamer, the Big Muff, the Maestro FZ-1, DOD, JHS, Jimi Hendrix’s rig… the works. And what you’re about to watch is kind of alarming. It hallucinates pedals that don’t exist. It agrees with things I KNOW are wrong when I push back. It confidently states dates it can’t actually source. And then when I ask it to prove anything… it can’t.
But here’s the part that really gets me: these aren’t just random errors. There’s a feedback loop happening. AI reads what’s on the internet, people repost what AI tells them, and AI reads that too. So the misinformation compounds. In 40 years, when someone wants to know who actually designed the first fuzz pedal – or what year the DOD 250 came out – this is what they’re going to find.
To watch from the beginning, click here.
A San Francisco startup started a new experimental cafe in Stockholm, Sweden
It pays to expand your word power: “Newsjacking”
New survey data suggests many Gen Z workers are actively undermining company AI strategies rather than quietly adopting them.
It’s relatively easy: How to spot AI writing.
This is the footprint ratio of data center to solar panels in the sunniest country in the world.
Bluesky is in full panic.
A full on exposed API has revealed thousands of people who signed up for the GTFO Ice site.
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I need to get me a tennis racket. (h/t Adam)
I gather there’s still more than a few bugs to be resolved with AI. I’m reminded of a Dilbert cartoon from twenty years ago where the company rolled out a poorly tested backup product called Quik Protect which did nothing but erase your hard drive. Since that was back in the days of modems, it would call up all your friends and erase their hard drives too. And if you had a sound card, it would swear at you.
“Yesterday afternoon, an AI coding agent — Cursor running Anthropic’s flagship Claude Opus 4.6 — deleted our production database and all volume-level backups in a single API call to Railway, our infrastructure provider,” sums up the PocketOS boss. “It took 9 seconds.”
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