Elon Musk did not bother with the polite version of this debate. He skipped past four-day weeks, skipped past better benefits, skipped past the old automation script where some job...
A lot of medicine still runs on queues, phone trees, and educated guesswork. That sounds unfair until you look closely at diagnosis, especially the difficult cases. A patient arriv...
A launch can still burn millions on a guess. Teams call it research, but much of it is structured optimism. You gather historical data, run surveys, squeeze meaning from last quart...
Nick Lane said the quiet part out loud. When his interviewer suggested that Lane’s work can sound like a vindication of intelligent design, Lane did not swat it away with the usual...
Bigger context windows look like memory. They are mostly appetite. An agent can swallow 200,000 tokens, complete a task, and still wake up tomorrow with the intellectual habits of ...
The default question in AI policy sounds sensible until you look closely: do the benefits outweigh the risks? That question already assumes too much. It assumes the relevant harms ...
Ask almost anyone what superintelligence would do for science, and the answer arrives instantly: everything gets faster. New drugs, better models of disease, deeper control over ce...
For a century, advanced economies treated cognitive skill as the scarce asset. If you could analyze, write, model, summarize, and argue, you had leverage. Schools, firms, and entir...
The numbers are getting silly. To push frontier AI forward, companies now build facilities that look less like software and more like heavy industry. They pull gigawatts from stres...
Ask a chatbot for a joke ten times. You start seeing the seams. The wording changes a little. The cadence shifts. Sometimes the punchline wears a different hat. But the actual spac...
A lot of marketing still assumes the buyer is tired, distractible, and slightly lonely. That assumption built an industry. It also explains why so much advertising works at all. Th...
AI is either a miracle or a flop, depending on which dashboard you checked this morning. On one side, tech executives talk as if software just discovered fire. On the other, skepti...