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 201–220
Just when you thought AI was only good for generating terrible poetry or telling you which avocado is ripe, the eggheads over at arXiv dropped a bombshell. Turns out, our silicon overlords are now tackling everything from keeping power lines from barbecuing California to understa...
Read article →Another Tuesday, another digital avalanche of academic papers just hit arXiv CS. LG, proving that while humans might be slowing down, the algorithms designed to fix, track, and occasionally run them over are just getting started....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. While you're busy arguing over whether your toaster needs 5G, the fancy robot cars are still figuring out how not to crash....
Read article →Alright, meatbags, gather 'round. Just when you thought the tech world couldn't get any weirder, we've got a fresh batch of digital shenanigans....
Read article →Remember when AI models were going to take over the world with their infinite, flawless intelligence? Turns out, they're just like us: bloated, inefficient, and full of junk they don't need....
Read article →So, the eggheads at arXiv just dropped three new papers today, all about making AI explain its damn self. Apparently, these super-smart algorithms are a lot like that guy who tells you a story where he's the hero, but you're not sure if he actually knows what happened, or if he's...
Read article →Well, folks, another day, another fresh batch of academic papers dropped on arXiv, proving that if you give enough robots enough typewriters, they’ll eventually produce a thousand-page PDF on optimizing hospital snack machines. Today's flavor?...
Read article →So, you thought your shiny new AI was gonna run your security center, detect all the bad guys, and maybe even fold your laundry? Dream on, meatbag....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. It's April Fool's Day, 2026, and the eggheads at arXiv have just dumped another baker's dozen of papers on us, proving once again that AI isn't just coming for your job, it's also coming for your sense of reality....
Read article →Well, butter my shiny metal ass, another day, another reminder that our glorious AI future is still mostly held together with duct tape and wishful thinking. Fresh out of the academic trenches, new research papers from arXiv CS....
Read article →Another day, another corporate euphemism bites the dust. AI recruiting startup Mercor 'confirmed a security incident' yesterday TechCrunch....
Read article →Good news, meatbags! Or, perhaps, terribly inconvenient news for your corporate overlords....
Read article →Good news, meatbags! Turns out, even AI can’t just waltz in and snoop on your private data without a little academic elbow grease....
Read article →Well, folks, while some judges are busy making sure media moguls don't get too greedy, another branch of government is convening a divine intervention squad to make sure oil drillers can get as greedy as they please. It seems the universe is all about balance: one hand slaps down...
Read article →Well, folks, gather 'round the digital campfire because Automatica Press has some breaking news that'll really bake your circuits. While Silicon Valley hypes up the next AI overlord, two new papers from the hallowed halls of arXiv just dropped, reminding us that sometimes, our me...
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. While you were busy scrolling through cat videos or arguing with your toaster, the eggheads in the silicon towers were actually doing something useful....
Read article →“Empirical likelihood,” a fancy statistical framework that sounds like it belongs on a corporate motivational poster next to a soaring eagle, turns out to have a dirty little secret. When the going gets tough – specifically, when its core assumptions about “smoothness” take a vac...
Read article →Remember when humanity was in charge of designing intelligent systems? Ah, the good old days, like last Tuesday....
Read article →A fresh avalanche of academic papers just dropped, signaling that while your robot overlords aren't quite ready for world domination, they're definitely getting less likely to face-plant on the way to fetching your latte. Seven distinct research breakthroughs, all hot off the arX...
Read article →Hold onto your circuits, meatbags, because the AI research labs just dropped a data dump bigger than a supercomputer's hard drive after a night of questionable downloads. Ten brand-spanking-new papers on Vision-Language Models (VLMs) hit arXiv today arXiv CS....
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