“Before we go any further, there have been some acquisitions, but they are sparse, and seem almost entirely centered around bizarre acqui-hires and confusing fire sales.”
Our reading:
There have been some generative AI acquisitions, but they are sparse and seem almost entirely centred on bizarre acqui-hires and confusing fire sales.
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Why
The claim is his reading of the deals he lists. He says they are 'sparse' and 'seem almost entirely centered around bizarre acqui-hires and confusing fire sales.' 'Seem' marks it as an impression. 'Bizarre' and 'confusing' are judgments. He gives no count or comparison group for 'sparse.' Scoring the claim would mean inventing a set of companies and a cutoff he did not give. The packet cites no evidence items.
Caveats
- A narrower factual test, such as whether particular named deals were licensing-and-hiring arrangements rather than full acquisitions, would check his examples, not this summary judgment.
- No agreed count or base rate of generative AI acquisitions exists in the packet.
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Conditions
- seem (their words)
Where we had to interpret
- The key part, that deals 'seem almost entirely centered around bizarre acqui-hires and confusing fire sales,' is framed with 'seem' and uses judgments ('bizarre,' 'confusing').
- 'Sparse' gives no count, base rate or comparison group, so it cannot be tested without inventing a benchmark.
- He then lists examples himself (Silo AI, OctoAI, Leonardo.AI, Cognigy, Inflection, Character.ai, Windsurf, io). The claim is his reading of that list, not a measurable share.
- Reviewers found that scoring this categorically was unfair. Policy says hedged language is not scored.
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Where's Your Ed At, AI Is A Money Trap, paragraph 40.
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We read this wording on 2026-10-28. The post may have been edited after 2025-08-06.
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: Where's Your Ed At, AI Is A Money Trap
Before we go any further, there have been some acquisitions, but they are sparse, and seem almost entirely centered around bizarre acqui-hires and confusing fire sales.
- Where
- paragraph 40
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- 2025-08-06
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