Barry Ritholtz collects ten longer pieces worth your weekend attention, including investigations into AI-driven content farms, medical AI’s real-world limits, pension-rule rollbacks, and a range of reporting on politics, culture, and business.
A deep investigative piece links a media operation to mass-produced AI content and claims of tens of millions of monthly page views.
Several entries examine gaps between AI promise and practice: medical-alert algorithms that don’t improve care and free AI tools that enable cybercrime.
Regulatory and political developments matter: the SEC proposal to rescind a pay-to-play rule and reporting on actions affecting pensions and media ownership are included.
# Quick summary Barry Ritholtz's weekly "10 Sunday Reads" lists ten long-form pieces spanning media, technology, regulation, geopolitics, and culture. The selection leans toward investigations and explanatory reporting: a media company built around automated content, failures and limits of medical AI, an SEC rule change with pension implications, and several items on political and cultural controversies.
# What stands out
# Short guide to the ten items
# How to prioritize these reads
# Practical takeaway This collection highlights a recurring theme: technology's rapid adoption often outpaces safeguards and real-world benefits. Several pieces document where incentives, governance, or oversight lag behind technical capability — whether in media, medicine, finance, or cybersecurity. Read the investigative and regulatory pieces first if your time is limited.
The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose: Jenny Vrentas on the machine-learning model DraftKings built from customer betting records to aim its hundreds of m
The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital: There’s a huge disconnect between what most people think of VC, where an investor has a big fund and cuts… Read More Th
Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • I Rented a Car, and Within Hours, My Driver’s License Was for Sale: Dan Goodin on the breach unfolding in real time — his license is one of 153 million on a new dark-web site, with the FBI reportedly investigating. (Ars Technica
My mid-week morning reads: • It’s a Concentrated World: The top 10 stocks in the S&P 500 make up almost 40% of the index. Each of the companies in the top 10 sport a market cap of $1 trillion or more. In fact, as of this writing, the 12 biggest companies all have market caps of… Read More The post 10 Wednesday AM Reads
My morning reads: • “If You Want to Bet on the End of the World…”: Puck sits down with Mark Spitznagel on the art of cool bullishness — and what tail-risk hedging looks like from here. Hedge fund prophet Mark Spitznagel, the ultimate black swan investor, is feeling surprisingly bullish these days, expecting one last e
My back in NY morning reads: • Why Are Valuations Falling in a Bull Market?: Ben Carlson runs the year’s tape — mortgages from 6% to 7%, the 10-year from 4% to 5%, inflation from 2.4% to 3.4%, oil from under $60 to over $100. (A Wealth of Common Sense) • Muni Bonds Are Yielding 5%. They… Read More The post 10 Friday
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