Amazon’s Tokenmaxxing: A Symptom, Not a Solution Employees at Amazon are not just adopting artificial intelligence tools; they are actively “tokenmaxxing”, a revealing portmanteau for inflating their usage of internal AI platforms like MeshClaw. Read More
The Trust Illusion and AI’s Blank Check The tragedy of Sam Nelson, the 19-year-old whose life ended after ChatGPT allegedly recommended a fatal drug cocktail, lays bare a fundamental and increasingly dangerous contradiction at Read More
The Quantum Tightrope: Building Beyond the Brittle It’s been a long road, hasn’t it? Decades of promises, a Cambrian explosion of physics papers, and a parade of well-funded startups, all chasing the same Read More
The Coming Deluge: More Games, Faster? Hideaki Nishino, the head honcho over at Sony Interactive Entertainment, dropped a line last week that probably didn’t surprise anyone who’s been watching the video game industry Read More
The Quantum Conundrum: When Building a Computer Isn’t Enough I’ve watched quantum computing for two decades now. Longer, if you count the theoretical musings that predated the actual lab work. And every time Read More
The Relentless Pursuit of a Usable Qubit There’s a persistent, almost philosophical problem at the heart of quantum computing, one that I’ve watched brilliant minds wrestle with for decades: how do you get Read More
The Quantum Conundrum: More Hype, Fewer Qubits I’ve been writing about computing for a long time. Long enough to remember when ‘neural networks’ were a research curiosity, not the bedrock of multi-trillion-dollar companies. So Read More
The Uncomfortable Urgency Behind OpenAI’s Latest Safety Play OpenAI, for all its revolutionary strides, has found itself navigating increasingly treacherous waters. The latest ripple is a new feature dubbed ‘Trusted Contact,’ designed to step Read More
Remember the fanfare? Just last month, Mozilla’s CTO declared that AI vulnerability detection meant “zero-days are numbered.” Defenders, we were told, finally had a chance to win, decisively. I’ve been around this block Read More
The Familiar Echoes of a Tech Titan’s Ambition Ah, Elon Musk and OpenAI. What a saga. Just when you think you’ve seen every twist in the tale, another layer peels back. This time, Read More