- collapse of freelance art economy. Fiverr and like sites start to offer ai generated art

- major advances in ai generated music and video. Popular artist will release a song generated by ai.

- major tv show with anti-China statement

- Russia declares second (April-May) and third mobilization waves, totaling around 800k troops. Attacks Ukraine through Belarus. West anti air systems are going to protect energy generation/distribution facilities in Ukraine

- militia sponsored by Turkey/west starts major military operation in Syria

- China does not invade Taiwan

- tech layoffs peak in Autumn 2023. Meta does another round of around 15k, with target to have 30k-40k headcount. AWS starts shutting down products, breaking their habit of keeping lights on even for minor things.

- TikTok is not banned in US

- Russia continues selling oil/gas to west, even under sanctions

- another high profile Boeing plane crash

- Tesla doesn’t deliver neither cybertruck nor fsd

- Trump’s presidential ambition will tear apart Republican Party

- Snowflake stock drops under $100, infra companies (elastic search etc) continue losing money

- crypto crash. Tether and binance collapse wipe out value of bitcoin and ether rum. More regulation

- another billionaire moves to New Zealand

- Amazon in talks about partnering with AliExpress

- no viable alternative to Twitter emerges, but Twitter usage drops

- Apple will be forced to provide alternate stores/browsers. iPhone 15 will have usb c