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Mal James @ Silicon Canals · 06/03/2026 05:43 EDT

Everyone saw the AI backlash coming — fewer expected it to start with the generation raised on screens

In May, the former chief executive of Google stood at a podium at the University of Arizona, looked out at the class of 2026, and told them artificial intelligence was about to remake the world the way the computer once did. The boos started almost at once. Eric Schmidt kept talking, then stopped and answered ... Read more Read more ›

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/03/2026 05:33 EDT

The people who seem unbothered by criticism aren’t the ones who stopped caring what others think—they’re the ones who moved the evaluation internally

The people who seem unbothered by criticism are easy to misread. From the outside they look like they have stopped caring what anyone thinks. Most of them have done something more specific, and far more useful. They have moved the evaluation internally. They still care about being right, about doing good work, about whether the ... Read more Read more ›

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Mal James @ Silicon Canals · 06/03/2026 05:27 EDT

When Microsoft’s Japan branch gave all 2,300 staff five Fridays off in a row on full pay in the summer of 2019 — while capping meetings at 30 minutes — it recorded a 40 per cent jump in productivity per employee, alongside sharp falls in electricity used and paper printed.

The Microsoft Japan story usually gets told as a magic trick. Give everyone Friday off, keep their full pay, and somehow more work gets done, not less. The lesson many people pull from it is the convenient one: just work less and you’ll produce more. I’ve wanted that to be true for years, which is ... Read more Read more ›

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/03/2026 05:12 EDT

Some people aren’t quiet in meetings because they have nothing to say—they’re running an internal cost analysis on whether their contribution will be remembered as insight or remembered as the moment they overstepped

Some people are not quiet in meetings because they have nothing to say. They are running an internal cost analysis on whether their contribution will be remembered as insight, or remembered as the moment they overstepped. That calculation happens fast, usually below the level of conscious thought, and it is one of the most underrated ... Read more Read more ›

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/03/2026 04:54 EDT

The person who keeps their refrigerator nearly empty isn’t minimalist, they grew up understanding that a full fridge could be inspected, weaponized, or held against them later

An empty fridge is often read as minimalism, but for adults raised in households where food was rationed, counted, or used as leverage, the bare shelves are a nervous-system strategy — reducing the evidence in a room that used to be inspected. Read more ›

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Canal Letter @ Silicon Canals 3 place · 06/02/2026 04:00 EDT

A Google engineer allegedly turned the company’s confidential search data into $1.2M on Polymarket — and the case quietly exposes the attack surface every prediction market is pretending not to see

A Google software engineer has been charged with insider trading for allegedly turning confidential search data into profits on Polymarket — and the case exposes a structural problem prediction markets have been quietly ignoring: every new contract listed creates a new attack surface, and every institution holding non-public information becomes a potential leak point. Read more ›

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Canal Letter @ Silicon Canals 2 place · 06/01/2026 04:00 EDT

A fake UK visa site has been leaking 100,000 passports and selfies for weeks, and the part nobody is talking about is why the operator has zero incentive to fix it

An unofficial website calling itself UK Visa Portal has exposed the passports and selfie photos of visa applicants, and the security flaw remains unpatched, according to TechCrunch , which reported the breach on 26 May. Read more ›

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals 3 place · 06/01/2026 03:00 EDT

The unemployment rate looks fine because it’s hiding the only number that matters — workers aged 22 to 25 in AI-exposed jobs have quietly lost 16 percent of their employment since ChatGPT

The standard reassurance about artificial intelligence and work — that it will not cause mass unemployment, that history shows technology creates more jobs than it destroys, that the people warning about robots taking jobs have been wrong for two centuries — happens to be technically correct and almost entirely beside the point. Read more ›

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/01/2026 01:20 EDT

DuckDuckGo just had its biggest install surge in years after Google killed the AI opt-out

DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine that has spent more than a decade unable to crack Google's grip on the U.S. market, just recorded a 30% surge in installs after Google unveiled its AI-first Search overhaul at I/O — six consecutive days of double-digit growth, including across a Memorial Day weekend when the company typically sees a traffic dip. Read more ›

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 05/31/2026 23:00 EDT

The Vatican just published a 200-page document about AI that doesn’t mention David Sacks once, and that’s precisely what makes it the sharpest critique of Silicon Valley power this year

The Vatican's recent encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas , arrives wrapped in the language of artificial intelligence, but its actual subject is the political economy of technological dominance. Read more ›

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 05/31/2026 16:00 EDT

ClickUp just laid off 22% of staff while deploying 3,000 AI agents and promising million-dollar salaries to survivors — and Gartner’s data quietly says the financial returns aren’t actually showing up

ClickUp has laid off 22% of its workforce while simultaneously deploying roughly 3,000 internal AI agents, with CEO Zeb Evans framing the reduction as an aggressive bet on autonomous software rather than a cost-cutting exercise. Read more ›

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals 1 place · 05/28/2026 18:02 EDT

Anthropic just closed a $65B round at a $965B valuation, and the cap table reveals something closer to industrial policy than a venture deal

Anthropic is reportedly in talks to close a Series H round in the range of $65 billion at a post-money valuation approaching $965 billion, according to figures circulating among investors and reported by financial press. Read more ›

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Justin Brown @ Silicon Canals 2 place · 05/28/2026 12:00 EDT

The same week Waymo admitted its robotaxis can’t handle rain, SpaceX’s S-1 disclosed $506M flowing to Tesla and $1M to Boring Company — one firm is constrained by physics, the other by accounting

Waymo's robotaxi service has paused operations across at least six U.S. cities this month, a sequence of disruptions that complicates the prevailing narrative that autonomous ride-hail has crossed the threshold from experiment to infrastructure. Read more ›

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals 3 place · 05/28/2026 11:52 EDT

Wall Street is pricing a US-Iran peace deal that Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz and the chair of Senate Armed Services spent Sunday publicly trying to kill

Equity desks treat the prospect of a US-Iran deal as an unambiguous bullish signal, oil traders treat it as a supply shock in waiting, and currency desks treat it as a reason to sell dollars. Read more ›

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