Gold. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update.
EP 315 In 1848, a carpenter named James Marshall spotted glittering flakes in a California millrace, and within two years, roughly 300,000 people had poured west chasing gold. Most of them never got rich. The people who made real money were the ones selling shovels, pans, flour, and boots. Welcome to the AI gold rush, where the story looks almost identical. Companies are pouring billions into artificial intelligence, investors are betting on a boom they can't quite measure, and the most reliable profits so far are landing in the pockets of the companies selling the picks and shovels. This week, we follow the money: whether AI is actually paying off, who is willing to hand it their banking passwords, which companies are going public on promises of future riches, and how thieves are now stealing data center hardware the way gold robbers once stole bullion. We'll look at a company that cut down a quarter million trees to build the digital mine, a Pentagon office qui...
