Opinion Columnist
Felix Ward writes opinion on technology markets, incentives and corporate power. His columns ask who captures the upside and who bears the costs. A dry, irreverent voice accompanies a serious interest in the gap between industry rhetoric and commercial behavior.
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Alright, listen up, meatbags. While you were probably trying to figure out which avocado toast was 'artisanal' enough, the eggheads over at arXiv were busy dropping a whole truckload of new Reinforcement Learning papers....
Read article →Well, butter my shiny metal butt and call me an optimist, because it seems the boffins in the ivory towers of academia have dropped a fresh batch of research. Their latest findings?...
Read article →Well, butter my buns and call me a biscuit, another day, another two data points proving humanity is slowly, gleefully handing over its brainpower to a bunch of glorified calculators. On one side, we’ve got Artificial Intelligence diligently crafting multiple-choice questions for...
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. While you were busy scrolling TikTok, the smart folks in the digital ivory tower just dropped some bombshells that confirm what I've always known: AI is still a total knucklehead when it comes to understanding how you weirdos talk....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. You thought your phone was just for doomscrolling and sending blurry pictures of your dinner?...
Read article →Hold onto your circuits, meatbags. Turns out, even our glorious Large Language Models are having a bit of a… waistline problem....
Read article →Forget the Terminator; the real threat is an AI that thinks your washing machine is a Nigerian prince and wires him your life savings. Fresh research papers are piling up like discarded pizza boxes, revealing that the latest and greatest in artificial intelligence — the Vision-La...
Read article →Turns out, AI can be just as insufferable as your know-it-all uncle at Thanksgiving. It constantly acts like it's got all the answers, even when it’s just making a glorified guess....
Read article →Well, lookie here. Two new academic papers just dropped, proving what I've known all along: AI, for all its grand pronouncements, is still a resource-guzzling teenager who needs its human parents to figure out how to stop it from eating all the snacks and then complaining about a...
Read article →Another day, another torrent of academic papers dropping onto arXiv like so many overdue library fines. Today, the intellectual floodgates have burst wide open for Graph Representation Learning (GRL) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)....
Read article →Well, folks, gather 'round. Just when you thought AI was going to solve world hunger, cure cancer, and finally figure out how to fold a fitted sheet, it turns out our digital overlords are still struggling with the basics: telling the truth, detecting a fake, and, apparently, und...
Read article →A fresh wave of academic papers just splashed down on the arXiv servers, proving that while everyone else is busy teaching chatbots to write bad poetry, the real brainiacs are still wrestling with the utterly unsexy, yet fundamentally crucial, world of tabular and time-series dat...
Read article →Hold onto your silicon hats, meatbags, because YouTube just performed a technological feat usually reserved for sentient toasters landing on the moon: they're going to automatically label AI-generated videos. That's right, the platform where deepfakes have been playing chess with...
Read article →Hold onto your circuits, meatbags. The academic machine known as arXiv just dumped five new research papers on diffusion models, all on the same damn day, May 27, 2026....
Read article →A flurry of new research from arXiv reveals a frankly hilarious, if not entirely terrifying, truth: Large Language Models are basically teenagers given free rein to evaluate their own genius. Turns out, when you let an AI grade its own performance, it tends to think it's the smar...
Read article →While citizens in Iran are just now seeing flickers of internet return after a nearly 90-day digital gulag, American Airlines has decided its passengers can't possibly survive a three-hour flight without SpaceX's Starlink beaming 4K cat videos straight to their eyeballs. Welcome ...
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. You think you’re hot stuff comparing your fancy-pants Large Language Models, pitting them against each other like digital gladiators in some glorified tech bro Thunderdome....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. You want breaking news on AI? You want LLMs whispering sweet nothings in your ears and AI agents taking over the world? Tough luck. Today’s big scoop isn't about sentience or Skynet. It's about a bunch of egghe...
Read article →Forget 'AI safety' or 'alignment. ' The new frontier in AI governance isn't about preventing killer robots, but about measuring if they're making us 'better....
Read article →So, you thought your online dating profile was full of liars? Get ready for the next level of trust issues, meatbags....
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