While I think the latest shift is going to hit CNET more I think that they were circling the drain long before anybody heard of chatGPT. Whereas tech knowledge I think a bit of a difference for those that grew up in the 90s or earlier was that you needed a bit of basic tech knowledge on some level to do even basic tasks. Today things have been dumbed down considerably.

This. Even the stuff that they didn't plagiarize was pretty low quality. The few people that they had that had any quality quit a decade or more ago. CNET imho has been a 90s zombie brand for years. i.e. not technically out of business, but a company that is a shadow of what it was in the late 90s.

This. I hardly think you were the only one that stopped reading them. Their human writers were second tier for a long time. Ars Technica passed them by a good 20 years ago. After CES kicked them out of best of CES from the controversy about a decade back they lost what little credibility they still had left. They got resold from CBS for a fraction of what CBS paid for it. Needless to say their impact on tech journalism has waned dramatically and in my opinion already were one of those websites from the late 90s that technically still existed, but were no longer relevant.

There are some exceptions, but I think that indications that AIs are able to pass some MBA exam at Wharton I think that question may not be far fetched. Obviously not everyone that can pass an MBA is great management material, but once an AI can successfully demonstrate it can do that you'll see people start questioning it. In the not so distant future you may get some corporate boards question whether they really need to pay a high priced CEO at all. Maybe some companies will simply have a paid actor "act" as a public figurehead like some Chinese companies pay white foreigners to play as senior execs, but I don't think that is far fetched.

This. Before the recent stories about CNET came to light I am not sure that I had hardly heard about them in maybe 10 years. After the controversy from CNET's then owner of CBS intervening in best of CES awards they lost a lot of credibility although I think that Ars Technica passed them by whereas quality of tech news writing >20 years ago. It was news to me that CNET had been resold to new owners that apparently paid a small fraction of what CBS paid. Not clear if CBS retained anything of meaningful value that they didn't resell, but precluding that it indicated that CBS did little to slow the slide of irrelevance of CNET.

This. There are a lot of mundane low level roles that are appointed that the difference from acting and actual probably isn't that significant. IG isn't one of them.

This. Biden actually dragged out the withdraw from Afghanistan longer to give people who wanted/needed to leave more time. I can't imagine Trump's original faster timetable would have been less chaotic.

At the very least keep the existing plants running beyond April. I don't seriously think that the issue in Ukraine is going to be resolved by then.