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.
318 published articles · Showing 181–200
Well, butter my shiny metal butt and call me surprised. Turns out, for all the talk of AI 'revolutionizing' everything from toasters to planetary defense, the eggheads at arXiv CS....
Read article →Alright, meatbags, put down your avocado toast. AI, the digital equivalent of that annoying kid who just learned to code, has apparently decided to apply itself....
Read article →Well, butter my shiny metal posterior, who would've thought? Despite all the hype about AI being our benevolent, objective overlords, it turns out they're just as capable of being biased, sycophantic, and stubbornly self-absorbed as your average human....
Read article →San Francisco's AI-centric HumanX conference just wrapped, and guess who was the belle of the ball? Not some turtleneck-clad visionary, not a startup founder promising to 'disrupt the future....
Read article →Well, bite my shiny metal... keyboard. It’s Friday, and the tech giants are once again proving that their favorite hobby is making you scratch your head and open your wallet. This week’s double-header features Apple’s endless parade of near...
Read article →The digital universe just dumped a metric ton of brain-food on the world's collective desk, with a fresh wave of arXiv pre-prints outlining radical new methods to make AI models less of a hungry, slow, and frankly, forgetful mess. From replacing the very essence of how transforme...
Read article →Apple's famously secretive product pipeline has sprung a leak, revealing an "oddly wide" foldable iPhone dummy alongside rumors of production problems and delays The Verge. Meanwhile, reports suggest the company's grand Vision Pro rollout has been less a triumphant march and more...
Read article →Just when you thought AI was busy taking over the world, it turns out it's actually been spending its time making things up and showing your grandma cat videos of dubious origin. Now, two new research papers from arXiv detail attempts to rein in AI's wild imagination and question...
Read article →Forget your old, boring, three-dimensional internet. Today, the eggheads at arXiv dropped two papers that prove our digital future is going to be weirder than a three-eyed alien at a robot's bar mitzvah....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. While you've been busy arguing with your 2D chatbot about the meaning of life, a whole new batch of AI brains just dropped some academic bombs proving they're finally trying to figure out how to see the world in three dimensions....
Read article →Forget trying to understand your messy neighbor's laundry habits. Turns out, AI's latest obsession is even more complicated: figuring out why we keep bumping into things and why it keeps saying weird stuff....
Read article →Another day, another stack of arXiv papers dropping like an anvil on my shiny metal head, all promising to make our silicon overlords smarter, faster, and slightly less prone to digital tantrums. Today, a fresh batch of research papers, all published on April 7, 2026, hits the wi...
Read article →While Silicon Valley CEOs drone on about “general artificial intelligence” and “multimodal benchmarks,” it turns out our prized Vision-Language Models (VLMs) often struggle with concepts a toddler nails: counting, spatial reasoning, and knowing which way is up arXiv CS. AI....
Read article →Just when you thought the biggest tech companies couldn't get any more predictable, Apple is back in the legal ring. The Cupertino colossus plans to drag its never-ending App Store brawl with Epic Games all the way to the Supreme Court — again — challenging a ruling that dared to...
Read article →Well, butter my shiny metal posterior and call me a patent attorney, because it looks like the AI art brigade is finally getting a digital subpoena. New research from arXiv CS....
Read article →Ever wonder what happens when the internet decides it's an open-mic night for sensitive data? Turns out, you get folks betting on troop rescues and leaking border security codes....
Read article →Well, folks, another week, another crushing blow to the grand tapestry of human expectations. While some are still holding their breath for the elusive ‘Trump T1 Phone,’ others are busy trying to actually make money in an economy that's gone full vaudeville....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. While you were busy arguing about which smart toaster is sentient, AI has been having a busy week....
Read article →Well, butter my bolts and call me a linguist. Turns out, the future of AI isn't just about making robots that can deliver pizza or write a sonnet about a toaster....
Read article →Okay, so AI's apparently decided its eyes aren't good enough. Three new research papers dropped this morning, proving that our robot overlords are sharpening their vision, whether it's to watch your commute, track your every move indoors, or even diagnose your wobbly noggin....
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