Is 2026 Going to be the Worst Year of Layoffs?
2026 is shaping up as another tough year for layoffs and hiring freezes, but it is more a continuation and restructuring phase than a completely new “mass bloodbath” like early 2023. What is actually happening in 2025–2026 Tech layoffs re-accelerated …
Why Gen X is the real loser generation
In 2025, economic analysts and sociologists, most notably in a widely discussed analysis by The Economist, have identified Generation X (born 1965–1980) as the “real loser generation” due to a unique convergence of financial and social setbacks. The primary reasons …
What is AI, AGI and ASI?
We know what AI is but what is AGI and ASI? AI refers to machines performing tasks that typically require human intelligence. AGI is AI with general, human‑level cognitive abilities across a wide range of tasks. ASI is a hypothetical …
AI Circular Financing
We’ve all seen the above image when Oracle started making waves about their AI contract to provide OpenAI compute power at their Abilene DC with tonnes of NVIDIA GPUs – well there’s now news about circular financing fraud involving the …
The Reasons Behind Global Internet Outages
There isn’t going to be a single answer to why we are experiencing major global internet outages of late. There will be a number of reasons that are all coinciding to produce these recent occurrences. Recognising these reasons will allow …
A(I) Risky Move?
It is no secret that I am leaving Oracle to join Nscale at the end of this month. My main aim was to avoid the Oracle RIF/layoffs and while putting the worse case scenario in place, I managed to get …
