• The all-you-can-eat AI buffet has closed

• How will universities ration internal access to LLMs?

• The museum of meaningless metrics

• What is AI criticism for?

• 👀 Waiting for the Crash – Sketching the Enshittified Future of Large Language Models 

• Some thoughts on how and why AI will change over the next few years

• Is the Iran war about to burst the AI bubble and crash the global economy?

• You can’t understand ‘AI slop’ without understanding engagement farming

• Is big tech a driver of inflation?

• Could mass automation be imminent?

• What kind of AI bubble are we in?

• The enshittification of (political) economy: ‘AI’ as the last redoubt of neoliberal centrism

• 📚 Reading Group in Manchester: The Political Economy of AI

• Why public benefit corporations won’t fix the ethics of platform capitalism

• How will generative AI firms seek to optimise their models to increase user engagement? 

• What would it look like if Generative AI firms embrace MAGA?

• Will the business model of GenAI be advertising after all?

• LLMs and cognitive lock in

• Will OpenAI go the way of WeWork?

• What will be left after the GenAI bubble bursts?

• Who will pay for your digital butler? Why the utopia of the digital daemon would inevitably become a dystopia

• How a deliberately inflated housing market is strangling the UK economy

• Why does South Manchester monopolise the economic gains of the city’s growth?

• Are the economic shocks of 2021-2023 a temporary phenomenon?

• What will the automated university look like?

• The three forces that will drive the rollout of generative AI

• AI and the politics of productivity in a crumbling UK

• We are not the users of generative AI

• The supermarket self-checkout as an exemplar of automation

• What will post-neoliberalism look like?

• We’re leaving neoliberalism and entering something worse

• The possible forms which post-capitalism could take

• The agony of the petite bourgeoisie

• The return of normality

• Machine learning and authoritarianism

• The role of sovereign wealth funds in big tech

• It’s The Political Economy, Stupid

• The political economy of viral stars 

• Special Issue on ‘Gender, Sexuality and Political Economy