Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
I regret to inform you that Ask Jeeves is dead. The site closed yesterday. Web 1.0 lost another founder.
Ask Jeeves: 3 June 1996 - 1 May 2026. Send no memes.
Two Anthropic engineers spent 24 minutes exposing every Claude Code feature you didn't know existed.
Most people will scroll past this. Don't be most people.
Starting off Saturday mild in New York City to Philadelphia with temperatures in the 70’s.
But a backdoor cold front moves in by mid to late afternoon, quickly dropping temperatures into the 40’s from east to west. 📉
This only looks outrageous to people who haven’t played sports. Are there other approaches to coaching that also work? Yes. But I’m not upset by this approach, based on what she’s actually saying to her.
🚨 Do you understand what happened in the last 12 hours?
> Goldman Sachs said $450 billion in AI investment contributed "basically zero" to US economic growth.. the Chief Economist said it on record..
> Uber dropped $1.25 billion on Rivian to build 50,000 robotaxis.. the drivers who built the company are about to be replaced by the cars..
> Jeff Bezos started raising $100 billion to buy manufacturing companies and automate them with AI.. he's not building factories.. he's buying them to empty them..
> DoorDash launched an app that pays people to film themselves doing chores.. not for content.. for AI training data.. so robots can learn to replace them..
> OpenAI bought Astral.. the open source Python tools that millions of developers loved.. bolted it onto their coding agent.. the community is furious..
> Cursor dropped Composer 2.. their own AI model that beats Claude on coding benchmarks.. a 50-person startup outperformed a $30 billion lab..
> Hollywood resurrected Val Kilmer with AI to star in a new movie.. he died of cancer.. never filmed a single scene.. they built a digital version of him..
> HSBC is planning deep job cuts using AI to gut their middle and back offices..
> UK unemployment hit 5.2%.. AI hasn't even started firing people yet..
> Fortune 500 updated the AI price tag to $4.5 trillion.. 93% of US jobs vulnerable to disruption..
> Nvidia GTC is happening right now.. Jensen closed his keynote with singing robots and a digital clone of himself.. the man selling the shovels is also selling the future..
all of this happened in ONE day.. a single Thursday..
if you're not following me you're finding out about this 48 hours late from someone who read my post..