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AI adoption follows the J-curve of general-purpose technologies, such as the electrification of America’s first factories, requiring years of investment before notable ROI gains (exponential view)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 31, 2026

Exponential view: AI adoption follows the J-curve of general-purpose technologies, such as the electrification of America’s first factories, requiring years…

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Q&A with Skild AI CEO Deepak Pathak on building a general-purpose brain for robots, standing out among big tech robotics efforts, the path to AGI, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 26, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “Serious Opinionators”, with Adam Engst The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball.…

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it’s a general-purpose AI agent that can do almost anything on a computer with impressive capabilities (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 5, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The High Growth Handbook: Molly Graham’s Frameworks for Managing Chaos, Change, and Scale Interviews with world-class…

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WhatsApp updates its Business API terms to ban general-purpose chatbots starting January 15, 2026, affecting WhatsApp assistants from OpenAI, Perplexity and others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 18, 2025

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: WhatsApp is updating its Business API terms to ban general-purpose chatbots starting January 15, 2026, affecting…

Families of Tiananmen victims barred from visiting graves on anniversary – Radio Free Asia

Kazakhstan, Russia move forward with $16.4 billion nuclear power plant project – The Diplomat

Nepali PM confuses mandate with immunity – The Diplomat

Moscow’s new military partner has something Russia needs more than its allies – The Diplomat

How Japan is gradually rebalancing its foreign policy – The Diplomat

Ulta Beauty (ULTA) First Quarter 2026 Results

Markets in ‘greed’ mode as AI companies prepare for IPOs

Victoria’s Secret (VSXY) Q1 2026 Results

Prices of Audemars Piguet watches stable after collaboration with Swatch

McDonald’s MCD unveils its growth strategy

Democrats will force vote to kill Trump’s slush fund and immunity program

Trump’s ballroom is dead and his battleships may be sunk

Massive defeat for Trump as his militarization fund dies

Democrats figured out how to kill Trump’s weapons fund

It’s time for the 25th Amendment as Trump thinks the latest dementia screening was an intelligence test

GitLab lays off 350 employees, or 14% of its workforce, as it evolves into an AI-driven enterprise software development platform and exits 22 countries (Dean Seal/Wall Street Journal)

London-based Gigaton, which develops AI to automate industrial control systems for cement, steel, glass and chemical plants, has raised a $26 million Series A round (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)

Researchers at the University of Toronto say they have developed an open-source AI-powered ‘worm’ that exploits known vulnerabilities and tailors attacks to each computer (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to fall below $67,000 on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy’s first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% (Bloomberg)

a CoreWeave-linked data center raised $900 million via five-year junk bonds, priced at par for a 7.5% yield, as the industry increasingly shifts to high-yield bonds (Gowri Gurumurthy/Bloomberg)

Browsing: generalpurpose

AI adoption follows the J-curve of general-purpose technologies, such as the electrification of America’s first factories, requiring years of investment before notable ROI gains (exponential view)

Q&A with Skild AI CEO Deepak Pathak on building a general-purpose brain for robots, standing out among big tech robotics efforts, the path to AGI, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)

it’s a general-purpose AI agent that can do almost anything on a computer with impressive capabilities (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)

WhatsApp updates its Business API terms to ban general-purpose chatbots starting January 15, 2026, affecting WhatsApp assistants from OpenAI, Perplexity and others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)