by Isaac Cubillos | May 16, 2026 | AI
The electric bill showed up before the robots did. That’s how Americans know something is real. Not the TED Talks. Not the glossy commercials showing smiling young professionals using artificial intelligence to organize grocery lists. Not the billionaire in sneakers...
by Isaac Cubillos | May 15, 2026 | AI
One day folks in Texas woke up and discovered that every pasture between Waco and the Hill Country was apparently being eyed for a data center. The reaction has been about what you’d expect. People started hollering about water. About power. About noise. About...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 14, 2026 | AI
Four weeks ago, most Americans were just trying to figure out why gas jumped another dollar a gallon. Now we’ve got something else on our hands. Stanford dropped its 2026 AI Index, and buried inside all those charts and PhD-level jargon is a simple truth: the people...
by Isaac Cubillos | Mar 11, 2026 | AI
Cities and counties across America are debating proposed data centers, and judging by Facebook, the end of civilization appears imminent. People are worried it will take all the fresh water. This concern is being expressed… on Facebook. Which, of course, runs entirely...
by Isaac Cubillos | Feb 2, 2026 | AI
From the depths, the Claw reached forth — and we who answered became Crustafarians. Somewhere on the internet—and of course it’s on the internet—a group of AI agents has founded a religion. Not a metaphor. Not a joke. Not a think-piece headline doing backflips for...
by Isaac Cubillos | Dec 15, 2025 | AI
I’ve been writing about artificial intelligence long enough to know when the hype runs ahead of reality. This isn’t one of those moments. Microsoft’s decision to pour $7.5 billion Canadian dollars over the next two years—and $19 billion already invested since 2023...
