AI is Listening, and it Can’t Keep a Secret

AI companies are increasingly harvesting vast amounts of personal data to fuel model development and personalized services, which raises serious privacy, security, and legal concerns. As generative AI faces technical limits, experts warn that firms may shift to surveillance-based business models, exploiting sensitive user data without meaningful consent or transparency.

Oct 1, 2025

Data Centers: The Canary in the AI Hype Coalmine?

AI infrastructure is now a major driver of U.S. economic growth, but it's being financed through increasingly complex and risky financial strategies that echo the subprime mortgage crisis. As tech giants and startups rack up debt to fund data centers and cloud capacity far ahead of actual demand, experts warn of mounting systemic risk, unsustainable valuations, and potential fallout for both investors and local communities.

Oct 1, 2025

AI Bubble Watch

Despite massive VC investment, many AI startups are struggling to deliver returns, with valuations skyrocketing even as most projects fail to generate meaningful revenue and the costs of model training and inference rise. Experts are cautioning that the market may be more overvalued than in the dot-com era.

Oct 1, 2025