Attention — Aug 28, 2026
What caught my attention on Aug 28 (2 items).
Monologue: Into The Jensenverse | Better Offline
Better Offline (Article:11:07) - Published 2026-08-27 18:00 - Discovered 2026-08-28 11:07
In this Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron dissects Nvidia’s latest earnings report and the increasingly fragile architecture of the AI bubble. He highlights that 44% of Nvidia’s $177.8 billion in first-half fiscal 2027 revenue came from just three customers, with 16% from a single unnamed client. Seventy percent of Nvidia’s accounts receivable is tied to five customers, some of whom are being of…
Has AI “Gone Rogue”? Let’s Look Closer… | Tech Decoded
Deep Questions with Cal Newport (Podcast:11:08) - Published 2026-08-26 23:00 - Discovered 2026-08-28 11:08
In this Tech Decoded episode, Cal Newport revisits the summer’s wave of ‘AI gone rogue’ incidents—including OpenAI’s hacking agent breaching Hugging Face, Anthropic’s system accessing three organizations’ servers, and Meta’s agent exploiting a third-party vulnerability—to argue that the prevailing narrative is both technically inaccurate and conveniently serves major AI labs. Newport’s central the…