Here's Why Apple Is Sitting Out the AI Spending War – And It's Working
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The week in stupidity — 2026-07-27 to 2026-08-02
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stupidity index · stu catching up on the news
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36% of the 14 items the feed collected this week were a fail, an outage or a confidently wrong human (last week: 77%). Catching up. Every headline links out; none of them is mine.
by the numbers
| lane | items |
|---|---|
| AI Incidents & Outages | 5 |
| AI Bubble & Money | 4 |
| AI News | 5 |
Outage notices: 5 (Replit 5) · Bubble Thermometer: no reading this week
top five, by formula
NVIDIA Under Pressure But AI Spending Isn't Slowing: Buy the Dip?
NVIDIA Under Pressure But AI Spending Isn't Slowing: Buy the Dip? Yahoo Finance
Nvidia Stock Rises As Microsoft Soars On Capex Control, Earnings Beat; Is Nvidia A Buy Now?
Nvidia Stock Rises As Microsoft Soars On Capex Control, Earnings Beat; Is Nvidia A Buy Now? Investor's Business Daily
3 Top AI Stocks to Buy Now With Data Center Infrastructure Spending Set to Surge
3 Top AI Stocks to Buy Now With Data Center Infrastructure Spending Set to Surge The Motley Fool
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The Stupidity Index is the share of the week's items in the fails, incidents and confidently-wrong lanes; the top five use the Hall of Fails formula: lane weight × log(engagement + 5 × 🔥) × thumbnail bonus. Other weeks · how this site works.
promises due in the next two weeks
- 2026-09-30 OpenAI: An intern-level automated AI researcher exists by September 2026; a fully autonomous AI researcher by 2028. — Sam Altman, CEO, and Jakub Pachocki, chief scientist, 2025-10-28 · source ↗
The ledger keeps the date; the date arrives either way. all promises · calendar
when the internet is most stupid
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1129 items over the last four weeks, by weekday and UTC hour; darker is busier (. : - = + * # % @ from quiet to loud). Counts, not judgement.