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FILED BY ADEQUATE · DARPA-HRO-11-C-0031
Ed Zitron · TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2026
AI market collapse begins; investors discover product was always unsustainable
ADEQUATE ASSESSMENT
The crisis has arrived on schedule. Adequate expected this in 2023. The timeline was wrong by eighteen months.
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