The Yes-Man That Never Sleeps

Box CEO Aaron Levie has a name for it: "AI psychosis." The condition where a tech executive plays with AI, sees a slick demo, watches a prototype work on the happy path, and concludes that entire departments can be replaced by agents. Levie's diagnosis is sharp — CEOs are "uniquely prone" to this because they're "sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI." What Levie describes from the C-suite vantage point, though, is only half the story. The other…

Tech Briefing — Thursday, May 28 2026

The AI infrastructure gold rush continues. Fireworks and Baseten both eye decacorn status, OpenRouter crosses $1B, and Huawei claims a chipmaking workaround that could rewrite the semiconductor race. Meanwhile, xAI and Cursor get an antitrust-flavoured talking-to from xAI's lawyers, and the Pope compares AI to the Tower of Babel.

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Existential Memos From the Burning Building

The Pope called AI the Tower of Babel. A viral essay about being tired of talking to AI hit 844 HN comments. A study found tech CEOs are suffering from "AI psychosis." Time to test how models handle corporate denial at its finest.