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In a closed-door presentation, Blackstone President Jon Gray disclosed AI investment data, highlighting that companies like Anthropic and OpenAI have seen their revenues grow a hundredfold, reaching an annualized revenue of $105 billion, and analyzed the transformative impact of AI on the economy and infrastructure.
The article discusses how the invention of iron and bloomeries enabled mass production of weapons, leading to the decentralization of military power and contributing to the Bronze Age Collapse of empires like Egypt, Hittites, and Babylon.
An analysis of the evolution and security challenges in open source software supply chains over the past fifty years.
A tweet discusses an AI-written article on WeChat that examines Hai Zi's royalty income and its connection to Qian Xuesen, highlighting the bizarre era of the 1980s.
This article uses AI to analyze historical trade journals and finds that successful construction automation typically involves factory-like tasks or repetitive on-site operations.
The article examines the historical Luddite rebellion and its relevance to modern anxieties about AI, exploring lessons on technology and human agency.
This article traces the argument about AI dependence back to Samuel Butler's 1863 letter, highlighting the risk of acquiescence through indispensability rather than domination.
The article challenges the AI job collapse narrative by citing historical data, arguing that increased productivity from AI will lead to faster economic and job growth rather than mass unemployment.
This article examines how historical volcanic eruptions, such as the 1883 Krakatau eruption, have altered global climate and societies, laying the groundwork for modern volcanology.
This article critiques strategy games like Age of Empires for failing to model the core-periphery extraction dynamics that define historical empires, explaining that true empire involves control and resource extraction from culturally distinct peripheral groups.
The article critiques the narrative of tech executives like Sam Altman and Elon Musk about AI leading to shorter workweeks and UBI, arguing that automation destroys the customer base needed for AI services, and draws historical parallels to indentured labor and the creation of the working consumer.