People asked Paul Pfanner if he'd lost it. Here's his answer: a full album written from scratch and six music videos, plus what he learned about where people fit in a world of AI. The real Paul closes it out himself. The kid in the picture had a lot to do with it. Updated October 5 with the full album and new videos.

Paul Pfanner spent a career in motorsport and media and never made music. Then a fake AI “artist” got under his skin, and he answered it by building a 16-song album with his own lyrics, and a 4-minute, 33-scene music video in under a month. What a machine can make, and the one thing it can't fake.

Bill Sparks asks whether the AI boom is a bubble waiting to pop — and lays out what the hyperscalers pouring hundreds of billions into infrastructure still have to prove before the checks stop clearing.