Five Things Tech: Tech Flops, RSS, AI Buildout, Electricity, SaaS

Everything you should read about Tech right now.

It’s Saturday! Welcome back to Five Things Tech!

This week nicely shows how tech is tripping over its own promises while quietly laying the rails for the next wave: there are the grandiose flops of the year, from overhyped products like the Cybertruck and sycophantic AI to political tech theater that burns reputation and money instead of fixing anything.

At the same time, humble RSS keeps the web stitched together as the quiet workhorse behind blogs, podcasts and news apps, giving publishers and readers a direct line that is refreshingly free from algorithmic drama.

The AI buildout, meanwhile, hits a very physical constraint when expensive chips wear out faster than the business cases mature, which will likely push older GPUs into secondary datacenters long before anyone has figured out sustainable margins.

Globally, electricity becomes the real bottleneck for growth, with a tight link between power consumption and prosperity and an urgent need to scale clean energy if the digital economy is supposed to stay on track.

And just as enterprise SaaS happily sends out its usual double‑digit renewal hikes, teams start running the numbers and realize that a fleet of smart agents on top of their own data might be a lot more attractive than yet another bloated subscription, putting serious pressure on the classic SaaS playbook.

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