By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/06/2026You can't even make a profit selling $100 bills for $100 apiece! For a company to succeed, it needs to take in more than it expends. AI is a money-furnace, and AI hustlers are clearly on the hunt for a way to force all of us to feed every dime we've got to it. 18/ 1968
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/06/2026Musk's (now scuttled) gambit to make every pension saver bail out Grok (and Twitter, but at $44b, the losses from Twitter are dwarfed by the titanic Grok losses) was the most ambitious and shameless population-scale bag-holder scheme, but it's not the only one: www.reuters.com/business/fin... 19/reuters.comSpaceX blocked from early US benchmark index entry as S&P reaffirms existing rulesS&P Global said it was not changing requirements for entry into the S&P 500 index. 110021
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/06/2026So before we ask about the capabilities AI will acquire in the future, we should at least give some consideration to the question of whether anyone will be willing to fund the development of those capabilities, and if so, where the money would come from? 20/ 1706