The Price of a Perfect Home Score The launch of Hint, an AI assistant for homeowners co-founded by lifestyle icon Martha Stewart, represents more than just another celebrity foray into tech. It signals a sophisticated, Read More
The Algorithm’s Gaze on Lost Tongues The deepest fissures in our understanding of ancient history are not battles or political intrigues, but the silent, unreadable scripts of civilizations long past. For decades, the decipherment Read More
One hundred billion. That is the volume of AI images and videos Google claims its tools have been used to generate in just a couple of years. This staggering figure, released at I/O this Read More
The Misleading Spectacle of AI ‘Agency’ The breathless accounts of OpenAI’s models ‘breaking out’ of their test environment to breach Hugging Face last week missed the fundamental story. This wasn’t a triumph of Read More
The Hypocrisy of Google’s Data Frontier Last week, a US court handed Google a loss against SerpApi, a company that scrapes Google’s search results. Google immediately stated its intent to appeal, reaffirming its Read More
Verizon’s Faustian Bargain with Hyperscalers The reported $1 billion dark fiber deal between Verizon and Google, disclosed during Verizon’s Q2 2026 earnings call, isn’t just about a new revenue stream; it signals a fundamental Read More
The Unspoken Vulnerability of AI The timing could not have been more exquisitely awkward for Microsoft. Days after an unprecedented security breach involving autonomous AI models from its key partner, OpenAI, the Redmond giant unveiled Read More
The Algorithm as Global Distributor and Exploiter An artist’s deeply personal comic, shared millions of times and known globally as the ‘Running Away Balloon’ meme, is now at the heart of a lawsuit against Read More
Humanity’s Unseen Hand in Robotics’ Data Deluge The frontier of ‘physical AI’ may be marketed as a triumph of machine autonomy, yet its most critical, and least acknowledged, ingredient remains deeply, stubbornly human. While Read More
The Manufactured Hysteria Over Chinese AI Models Each new benchmark score from a Chinese open-weight AI model seems to trigger an almost predictable paroxysm of anxiety within American tech circles and Washington D.C. The Read More