Reading List

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Boom Aerospace, which is building a supersonic plane, announces Superpower, a 42MW natural gas turbine using Boom's supersonic engine, to power AI data centers (Boom)

Boom:
Boom Aerospace, which is building a supersonic plane, announces Superpower, a 42MW natural gas turbine using Boom's supersonic engine, to power AI data centers  —  It started, as many things do these days, by scrolling on X.  —  I was reading post after post about the power crisis hitting AI data centers …

Denise Dresser, Slack CEO since 2023, is stepping down to join OpenAI as the company's chief revenue officer (Wired)

Wired:
Denise Dresser, Slack CEO since 2023, is stepping down to join OpenAI as the company's chief revenue officer  —  A memo obtained by WIRED confirms Denise Dresser's departure from Slack.  She is now headed to OpenAI.  —  Slack CEO Denise Dresser is leaving the company and joining OpenAI …

Menlo Ventures: business spending on generative AI hit $37B in 2025, up from $11.5B in 2024; Anthropic's share of enterprise LLM spend grew from 24% to 40% YoY (Menlo Ventures)

Menlo Ventures:
Menlo Ventures: business spending on generative AI hit $37B in 2025, up from $11.5B in 2024; Anthropic's share of enterprise LLM spend grew from 24% to 40% YoY  —  AI Boom vs. Bubble  —  For all the fears of over-investment, AI is spreading across enterprises at a pace with no precedent in modern software history.

Google Photos launches new video editing tools, including specialized templates with preset music and text overlays, as well as a redesigned video editor (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Google Photos launches new video editing tools, including specialized templates with preset music and text overlays, as well as a redesigned video editor  —  Google Photos announced on Tuesday the launch of new features aimed at making video editing and highlight reel creation easier.

Sources: OpenAI has become more guarded about publishing research on AI's economic harms, prompting at least two economic research staffers to leave (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Sources: OpenAI has become more guarded about publishing research on AI's economic harms, prompting at least two economic research staffers to leave  —  Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI.