Rani Molla

Rani Molla

@rani.bsky.social

Senior correspondent @sherwood.news. Tech and charts. https://sherwood.news/author/rani-molla/

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Rani Molla
@rani.bsky.social

I hung out in Elon Musk’s company town. Its playground is always broken. The school is accepting just a fraction of the students it was supposed to because they didn’t build a big enough well. And you can buy any canned beverage imaginable but can’t recycle them. sherwood.news/power/the-re...

sherwood.newsThe revenge of the company town: Elon Musk, the new Baron of BastropThe billionaire is using the sheer force of his will and wealth to reshape an area in the Lone Star State — whether the locals like it or not....

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Tom Bonier
@tbonier.bsky.social

As turnout in Texas nears 3 million votes, Hispanic turnout is now exceeding presidential levels. More Hispanics have voted than did at this point in the 2024 presidential election. What's driving this huge increase? Young voters.

Rani Molla
@rani.bsky.social

My long-running theory is that a skin-care product’s popularity is directly proportional to how weird its ingredients are. This takes the cake: The latest K-beauty craze is made from dead Americans’ skin. www.businessinsider.com/korean-k-bea...

businessinsider.comThe latest K-beauty craze is made from dead Americans' skin. Now it's aiming for the US.A beauty treatment driving tens of millions of dollars in sales around the globe is now aiming for the US market. It's made from dead Americans' skin.
Rani Molla
@rani.bsky.social

Google Assistant keeps playing the remixed version of anything I request on Spotify, which is worse than not playing the song at all

Rani Molla
@rani.bsky.social

The AI boom runs on data centers. The people building them run on lunch, parking spots, and somewhere to sleep. My latest on the entrepreneurs following the data center construction boom — and turning workers’ everyday needs into big business. www.businessinsider.com/ai-data-cent...

businessinsider.comThe data center gold rush is creating unlikely winnersSavvy operators are selling data center workers places to eat, sleep, park, and play to cash in on the AI gold rush.

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Tim Newman
@tnewmsblues.bsky.social

"The idea that AI will turn everyone into a manager has been floating around for a while... And while workers are taking on more managerial responsibilities, their titles and pay often aren't keeping pace." www.businessinsider.com/workers-mana...

businessinsider.comBossing around teams of AI bots is becoming a new job skill — without boss payWorkers are now spending their time managing AI agents, supervising their work, and fixing mistakes. Many aren't getting manager promotions or raises.
Tim Newman@tnewmsblues.bsky.social

We’re entering the stage of AI hype & anthropomorphizing in which companies sell people on accepting the tech at work by painting an illusion in which workers become management by using prompt-and-response algorithms. This rhetoric is everywhere now - below from the Microsoft WorkLab newsletter.

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Karla Ortiz 🔜 LBX
@kortizart.bsky.social

“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and the “largest theft of labor in human history” is what a Microsoft executive privately said about GenAi as shown in newly unsealed court filings. And these court filings get worse. These execs knew all along the immense theft they committed.

404media.co‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
Rani Molla
@rani.bsky.social

Did you choose an individual contributor career to do the work — not manage — only to end up managing AI agents without the title or pay bump? I want to hear from you! DM or email rani.molla@gmail.com.

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The Verge
@theverge.com

The common wisdom is that AI is at fault, driving up the up the cost of everything from smartphones to game consoles. But the shortage was brewing well before ChatGPT took off — and was then amplified by AI’s unending hunger for RAM. Read more from @rani.bsky.social: buff.ly/ObGZTd4

Rani Molla
@rani.bsky.social

I wrote about why professionals are bragging about their little AI minions — and why the headcount often says more about status than productivity.https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-agents-bot-bragging-workplace-flex-2026-9

businessinsider.comAnxious about being replaced by AI, some workers have a new flex: bossing around armies of botsWorkers are bragging about managing dozens of AI agents, but experts say the numbers can be deceiving and reveal little about productivity or value.
Rani Molla
@rani.bsky.social

Apple must’ve updated Siri lately because instead of calling my mom like I do basically every day, it now calls “Jackie (Alma’s mom).” Cupertino is on this AI thing. Sorry Jackie!

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Jon Keegan
@jonkeegan.com

Tag teaming tech with @rani.bsky.social was my favorite part of this job. Learned so much from her, still in awe of Rani’s hustle

Rani Molla@rani.bsky.social

Truly grateful for my time at Sherwood, where I worked with some of the best writers & editors in the business. It was a great ride and I'm proud of the innovative journalism we created. Taking a break to enjoy the summer but would love to hear about good fits for the fall. bsky.app/profile/wsj....