{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AI Neanderthal by Malcolm Werchota","title":"#4 - The Money at the Top, the Mess at the Bottom","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/500773dc\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1909,"description":"One point six trillion dollars is what one fund manager thinks the world will spend on AI infrastructure next year. Twenty-five acres is how much of his crop a farmer destroyed after a chatbot told him which pesticide to use. Those two numbers are the same story told from opposite ends.\n\n💸 02:28 — A trillion and a half, and nobody can locate the payback. Only fifteen of two hundred countries produce that much in a year — and the return is described in adjectives.\n🤖 07:57 — Unitree's IPO was oversubscribed eight thousand times. Figure, America's champion, has shipped about a hundred and fifty robots. Thirteen million are forecast by 2035.\n⚡ 12:05 — OpenAI announced it is building on a decommissioned uranium enrichment site — because the substations were already there. The bottleneck is no longer chips, it is the grid.\n🪤 15:52 — Someone hid instructions for an AI inside a court filing. Not an argument for a judge — an instruction for a machine. And it is not hacking.\n🌾 18:49 — A sixty-seven-year-old farmer followed the advice and lost the year. He did not misuse it. That was the intended use case.\n🧬 22:09 — A gene-edited virus that killed a superbug. A hundred-year-old idea that finally works, because the search is now computational.\n🐋 25:41 — We taught a machine to listen to whales — and someone asked the better question about which minds we actually take seriously.\n🎯 28:34 — Three things for Monday.\n\nAI news for humans, not robots. Stay curious, stay human.\n\nMore: werchota.ai","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0Up7tcMuVZ4o57Iv4ifZS1RwZ9v586rtihtmL6xMbcU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hMjM5/YzFjODNkNmY4NDNk/MDllMDE5NGQ3MjE4/NTM3ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}