Patterns across the archive.
Longer pieces that read across many entries at once. Where the obituaries find the cause of death, these find the pattern.
- June 19, 2026 · 10 min read
The easy market that wasn't
Selling AI to developers was supposed to be the simple business. Two kinds of death suggest otherwise.
- June 19, 2026 · 9 min read
The agent that was always five years away
From email schedulers to AI chiefs of staff, a decade of autonomous-agent products died waiting for the models to catch up.
- June 18, 2026 · 10 min read
The first deaths of the AI boom
The generative-AI wave has started producing its own obituaries. The early ones rhyme.
- June 18, 2026 · 9 min read
The robots that said goodbye
The social robot has failed the same way for a decade, and it is the only product in the archive that gets to deliver its own eulogy.
- June 17, 2026 · 9 min read
Stability AI and the curse of the open-source first mover
It built the most-used image model on earth, gave it away, and watched everyone else collect.
- June 1, 2026 · 8 min read
OpenAI Sora: The Rise and Fall of the AI Video Generator That Burned $1 Million a Day
The model that owned text-to-video for eighteen months, then lost it to its own economics.
- May 15, 2026 · 8 min read
The lifespans of dead AI products
From sixteen hours to twelve years, what the clock tells us about why AI products fail.
- May 15, 2026 · 9 min read
The Quiet Exit
How the acqui-hire became the modal ending for AI startups that almost worked.
- May 15, 2026 · 9 min read
The things that stopped working
AI hardware fails differently than AI software, and the archive shows how.
- May 15, 2026 · 10 min read
How Big Tech kills its AI
The shutdown decision is made by someone who didn't make the launch decision.
- May 15, 2026 · 11 min read
The voice in the machine keeps dying
A decade of voice AI failures suggests the category has structural problems money cannot fix.
- May 12, 2026 · 8 min read
The quiet collapse of the autonomous vehicle startup
Eight companies, more than six billion dollars, and no independent survivor between 2019 and 2024.
- May 8, 2026 · 9 min read
The AI healthcare cohort that didn't make it
Six companies, more than three billion dollars, and a category that the system rejected.