This week: OpenAI’s influencer retreat, the real-world limits of the so-called AI revolution, and two public intellectuals debate capitalism (wow!). The people have chosen a favorite new AI billboard They said it couldn’t be done: Someone put up an AI ad that locals actually like! Last week, a billboard appeared at the corner of Sixth and Shipley Streets, just off Folsom, advertising ChatTJB, a new chatbot powered by AI (read: “average individual”). —Eddie KimThe limit does existIt feels like every other day someone asks me, “When is the AI bubble going to burst?” “So it’s kinda funny that, now that the hyperscalers have torched their cash flow on AI, Big Tech’s critics seem to hate them more than ever,” Thompson wrote on X.