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• Generative Artificial Intelligence Processes Global Data but Innate Confirmation Bias Threatens Civilization Medium | Aug 29 Confirmation bias dictates that humans mostly accept information matching preexisting beliefs. Generative artificial intelligence scales this behavioral flaw globally. We are engineering a societal collapse just to keep people clicking on screens, which seems like a terrible weekend project.
• Meta Finalizes Massive Teen Addiction Settlement, but Proposed App Restrictions Make Kids Less Safe techspective | Aug 28 Meta recently agreed to a seventeen-billion-dollar settlement resolving ongoing youth addiction lawsuits. The deal forces Facebook to implement strict daily time limits for teenage users. Executives are paying billions to actively lock kids out of their own platforms. This won't end well for Facebook or the kids they are trying to protect.
• The Aftermath of Corporate Overexpansion techspective | Aug 25 I track these industry shifts from my home office here in Bend, Oregon. I serve as the Trustee for a shopping center-owning trust (or did). Recently, I finalized the official closing date for the shopping center we held in Tustin, California. Selling that physical asset was a highly calculated move. You look at market fundamentals to decide when to hold an asset and when to liquidate it entirely. My grandfather shared a specific historical anecdote with me about market momentum. He taught me that when a crowd runs blindly in one direction, the smartest people step off the path entirely. I saw this dynamic firsthand working as a Competitive Market Analyst at IBM during the 1980s. I later watched Louis Gerstner eventually restructure the entire organization because the old revenue models no longer worked. Tech companies today are building their corporate foundations on entirely unstable ground.
• AI Trust Gap With Young Adults Could Carry a High Cost TechNewsWorld | Aug 24 The technology industry's enormous investment in artificial intelligence is colliding with a growing trust problem among younger adults. Recent polling suggests many Americans ages 18 to 34 distrust prominent AI executives and worry about how the technology could affect their careers. For technology companies, that skepticism could eventually affect more than public perception. It could influence recruiting, AI adoption, data center development, regulation, and purchasing decisions.

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• Adobe Finds Most Retail Apps Are One and Done E-Commerce Times | Aug 18
• TikTok to close Nashville office, lay off 250 employees Los Angeles Times | Aug 6
• AI Costs Continue to Rise Despite Falling Token Prices TechNewsWorld | Jul 28
• Tech layoffs in 2026 hit grim milestone KRON 4 | Jul 23

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