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AI and the railway mania
Michael Roberts.
"A widely cited study from MIT found that so far, 95 per cent of generative AI projects produce no return in productivity growth or profits. To justify the required investment, annual data-centre revenues would need to rise from $20bn today to about $2trn.  Existing revenues will fall short by $800bn.."

AI and the railway mania
The AI bubble continues. The Magnificent Seven of tech media continue to drive the US stock market, along with the AI companies. The ten largest US companies by stock market value, holdin…

Western Tatami Mat Mania Keeping Alive Japan’s Traditional Woven Grass Flooring Industry https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/western-tatami-mat-mania-keeping-alive-japans-traditional-woven-grass-flooring-industry/

Western Tatami Mat Mania Keeping Alive Japan's Traditional Woven Grass Flooring Industry
From Europe, the US, and even the Middle East, eager importers of tatami mats now account for a sizable amount of orders

A look at Google's TPU evolution, its decision to sell chips to competitors after 12 years of internal use, the TPU vs. GPU architecture showdown, and more (The Chip Letter)
https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/tpu-mania

TPU Mania
Is GPU vs TPU the CISC vs RISC contest of the modern era?

I agree with @… , and I think this is at root of much of the managerial mania for LLMs.
Having their terrible ideas go unchecked by underlings with expertise is basically crack cocaine for bad org leadership.
1/ https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/115792431499413784

A look at ChatGPT's impact on US stocks three years after its release: AI mania revived Big Tech, making an already concentrated S&P 500 even more top heavy (Bloomberg)

Behind Patriots QB Drake Maye's viral rise -- from his nickname to Ann Michael's 'Bakemas' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47700717/new-england-patriots-qb-drake-maye-nickname-ann-michael-maye-bakemas-…

Even though I've played it a bunch, I always forget I have Sonic Mania on Switch. Time to give it yet another go

I'm seeing a weird trend here
- Company finds out about Rust
- Company goes crazy, replaces core functions with rust implementations
- Core implementations fail due to bad coding resulting outage
Why all this rust mania?

While the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999, it may actually be larger and scarier with an unstable US economy and greater exposure for Big Tech (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)
https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/11/21/boom-bubble-bust…

We remember the internet bubble. This mania looks and feels the same.
The AI revolution is three years old Nov. 30. In just 36 months AI has gone from great-new-toy, to global phenomenon, to where we are today - debating whether we are in one of the biggest technology bubbles or booms in modern times. To us there is no debate. There is too much spending, too much leverage, too many crazy deals, and too much competition from China for us not to see big bumps ahead.