Archive - Mike Tieden Newsletter

The 65-Inch Lobotomy

Why Instagram on Your TV is the Final Frontier of Brain Rot

Feb 27 • Mike Tieden

The Quest for the Cart

Inside the Gamified Economy

Feb 20 • Mike Tieden

The Casino in Your Pocket

The Hidden Cost of the Online Betting Surge

Feb 13 • Mike Tieden

Data Centers are Draining Our Water

The AI revolution is being fueled by the one resource we can’t afford to waste

Feb 3 • Mike Tieden

January 2026

The Great AI Reality Check

2026 is the year the AI hype cycle finally runs out of other people's money

Jan 27 • Mike Tieden

Renting a Brain: Apple’s High-Stakes Bet on Google Gemini

Siri is finally getting a brain, but the fact that it belongs to Google proves that Cupertino has lost the first round of the AI wars.

Jan 20 • Mike Tieden

ChatGPT Health: OpenAI’s Medical Gamble

The potential of insights and the danger of hallucinations

Jan 13 • Mike Tieden

Amazon Leo: The Final Frontier for Same-Day Delivery

Why Amazon is betting big on satellites

Jan 6 • Mike Tieden

December 2025

The Logic Gap in Apple's Texas Strategy

Why the world's leader in biometric ID is suddenly struggling to verify a user's age.

Dec 30, 2025 • Mike Tieden

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