around the traps

• Maru the Cat, Once the Most Viewed Animal on YouTube, Dies at 18 :(
• AI boom is unsustainable unless tech spending goes 'parabolic,' Deutsche Bank warns | Fortune: The current AI boom is not sustainable, a Deutsche Bank research note warned this morning, because tech spending won't “remain parabolic.” AI capex is now so massive it is keeping the U.S. out of recession, the bank said. Separately, Bain & Co. estimate there will be an $800 billion shortfall in the revenues needed to fund the demand for AI computing power.
• Deus ex nihilo: Physicists call this decoherence. Economists call it a market crash. Sam Altman will call it Tuesday.
• Dense Discovery – Issue 358 / The feed no longer surprises but sedates
• Deloitte to pay back some of $440,000 to Australian government after report found riddled with errors | news.com.au — Australia's leading news site for latest headlines: One of the world's “big four” consulting firms will refund the Australian government part of a $440,000 fee after admitting it used artificial intelligence to help produce a report riddled with errors.
• NSW to buy back private Northern Beaches hospital for $190m | New South Wales | The Guardian: The NSW government will spend $190m to buy back the Northern Beaches hospital and integrate it into the public hospital system, ending a decade-long experiment in private ownership of a major Sydney hospital.