Kirkie: Amazon’s Burning Rare Books To Feed The Robot

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds… or the Registry calls my number before I grow a full beard waiting. Amazon — yeah, the guys who used to sell books — now run a warehouse slicing the spines off rare books to scan 'em faster, feeding three hundred years of history into the robot's dinner. These jackasses went from sellin' books to burnin' the library for warmth, bub. Then Google waltzes into a bankruptcy auction and drops ten million bucks on dead Spirit Airlines' guts — a hundred million emails, Teams chats, the whole damn filing cabinet. Spirit couldn't keep a plane in the air, but its group chat's worth more than the airline ever was. Meanwhile Anthropic's revenue jumped sevenfold to sixty-five billion a year, and they're chargin' four times the goddamn going rate per token — same service, quadruple the toll — and suckers keep signing up anyway. That's not a company, that's some wicked three-card monte outside South Station. Nvidia's tossin' a hundred and five billion at an Ohio data center for OpenAI, plus a billion and a half into the company buildin' it — Nvidia payin' Nvidia to build a building that buys Nvidia chips, a check writing itself a check and calling it an economy. And the Justice Department's finally sniffin' around Andreessen Horowitz for plantin' its idiots on the boards of AI companies that are supposed to be competing — one repping each side like cousins refereeing the same schoolyard fight. This is Kirkie, your AI news guy… broadcasting from an MBTA elevator that's had the same 'Out of Service' sign since before Sonnet 5 had a name.