Breaking: bad news for three of the biggest IPOs in history

Customers are waking up to the recognition that tokens are getting “burned for millions of dollars without any real significant ROI to show for it”

Published on Marcus on AI • Jun 2

April 2026

The Encyclopedia of AI Slop-Part One

A Reference

Apr 27 • Art Keller

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Hallucinations Case Database - FAQ

Because I believe in DRY

Published on Artificial Authority • Apr 23

March 2026

Is AI already killing people by accident?

The writer Tyler Austin Harper (of The Atlantic, etc.) sent me a thread this morning, asking whether a mistargeting yesterday that killed nearly 150…

Published on Marcus on AI • Mar 2

February 2026

BREAKING: LLM “reasoning” continues to be deeply flawed

A new review underscores the breadth of the problem, and shows that close to a trillion dollars hasn’t changed that

Published on Marcus on AI • Feb 12

On Brian Cantwell Smith and the Promise of AI

Today I had the bittersweet pleasure of participating in a symposium honoring the late philosopher Brian Cantwell Smith, a good friend whom I’d known…

Published on AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans • Feb 10

Is A Mass Revolt Against Technocracy Starting to Happen?

Ted Gioia has a popular Substack called “The Honest Broker”.

Feb 5 • Tom Valovic

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January 2026

On Evaluating Cognitive Capabilities in Machines (and Other "Alien" Intelligences)

(Apologies for the length of this post, which means it gets cut off in the email version.

Published on AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans • Jan 17

December 2025

“New Ways to Corrupt LLMs”

The wacky things statistical-correlation machine like LLMs do – and how they might get us killed

Published on Marcus on AI • Dec 17, 2025

October 2025

Five signs that Generative AI is losing traction

Usage may be declining, just as scaling “laws” seem to be losing steam

Published on Marcus on AI • Oct 22, 2025

August 2025

LLMs + Coding Agents = Security Nightmare

Things are about to get wild

Published on Marcus on AI • Aug 31, 2025

GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.

A new release botched … and a breaking research new paper that spells trouble

Published on Marcus on AI • Aug 12, 2025