On Semis, AI Savings & Angry AI Agents

The dark side of artificial intelligence was on full display in the stock market this week as various disconcerting news items stoked investor anxieties about semiconductor stocks and as fears triggered by a new AI-enabled tool to automate legal work pummeled software stocks broadly. Jackie reports on those developments as well as the flip side: how AI is transforming the operations of several big companies for the better. … Also: More AI chatter in our Disruptive Technologies segment, by AI agents themselves. Moltbook is an AI-only chat room where nonsentient beings air their grievances.