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The AI News Cycle Is Broken—And We’re All Pretending It’s Fine Every morning, the same ritual: a new AI breakthrough lands, tech journalists scramble to explain why it matters, and by afternoon, venture capitalists are already pricing the Series B. The Wall Street Journal covers it with the gravitas of a moon landing. TechCrunch writes three takes. Reuters publishes something sensible but gets buried. And somewhere in the noise, actual signal dies. ...

We’re All Living in an AI Fever Dream and Nobody’s Admitting It Right, let’s have it out, shall we? We’re in the middle of an artificial intelligence boom so mental that it makes the dot-com bubble look like someone got a bit too excited about a new type of biscuit. And the absolutely bonkers part? Nobody seems to want to talk about how utterly barking mad the whole thing has become. ...

The AI Hype Machine Meets Reality: What Wall Street Actually Cares About (And Why You Should Too) The Wall Street Journal’s AI coverage sits at an interesting crossroads. It’s where genuine technological breakthroughs collide with investor FOMO, where real applications meet speculative fantasies, and where the financial establishment tries—sometimes successfully, often not—to separate signal from noise in the AI conversation. Let me cut through the theater. The WSJ’s AI Beat: Following the Money (Which Tells You Everything) Here’s what I actually think: The Journal’s AI coverage is best read as a financial document, not a technology forecast. That’s not a criticism—it’s the whole point. ...