AI is Oil, Not God
AI is Oil, Not GodI trust the market over ghost storiesJul 25, 2026∙ PaidShareHi friends 👋, Happy Saturday! The past couple of days have been a technology business strategy nerd’s Super Bowl plus a Pro-Progress Person’s Super Bowl. Whenever you combine commoditizing complements with fighting the precautionary principle, I’m not going to be able to stop myself from writing something.
- ▪AI is Oil, Not GodI trust the market over ghost storiesJul 25, 2026∙ PaidShareHi friends 👋, Happy Saturday!
- ▪The past couple of days have been a technology business strategy nerd’s Super Bowl plus a Pro-Progress Person’s Super Bowl.
- ▪Whenever you combine commoditizing complements with fighting the precautionary principle, I’m not going to be able to stop myself from writing something.
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Record
| Original publisher | Not Boring |
| Canonical URL | https://www.notboring.co/p/ai-is-oil-not-god |
| Publication time | Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:25:07 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-25T17:27:19.732Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-25T17:27:19.732Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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AI is Oil, Not GodI trust the market over ghost storiesJul 25, 2026∙ PaidShareHi friends 👋, Happy Saturday! The past couple of days have been a technology business strategy nerd’s Super Bowl plus a Pro-Progress Person’s Super Bowl. Whenever you combine commoditizing complements with fighting the precautionary principle, I’m not going to be able to stop myself from writing something. This is lightly edited and is just my quick thoughts, so I’m throwing a bunch of it behind the paywall for the real ones (not boring world subscribers). Tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!Let’s get to it. Yesterday, Satya Nadella and Jensen Huang, among other leaders in tech, signed and shared a letter in support of open-weight models.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Not Boring.
