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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Another week, another digital dump truck of AI research from the hallowed halls of arXiv. March 31, 2026, brought us a fresh batch, and if you thought Large Language Models (LLMs) were just for writing bad poetry or generating questionable LinkedIn posts, you were sorely mistaken...
Read article →Well, butter my circuits and call me a cash register. Just when you thought the AI hype train couldn't get any more ridiculous, we’ve got companies raising hundreds of millions to build data centers in space while others are busy sweeping up the digital detritus AI leaves on Eart...
Read article →Hold the phone, folks, because YouTube's CEO Neal Mohan just dropped a truth bomb that'll either make you cheer for the future of couch-bound productivity or wonder if we're all just livestock in the content farm. According to Mohan, the crème de la crème of YouTubers, the ones h...
Read article →Hold onto your organic, gluten-free, ethically sourced hats, meatbags. A fresh wave of AI research just dropped from the hallowed digital halls of arXiv, and it's coming for your teeth, your ticker, and your very gray matter....
Read article →Alright, buckle up, meatbags. While you were busy trying to explain your morning coffee order to ChatGPT, the boffins at arXiv dropped some truth bombs that prove your favorite digital overlords are doing… well, stuff....
Read article →Our shiny new AI agents, those digital overlords we're building to run our lives, are apparently as consistent as a politician's promises and prone to more bottlenecks than a rush-hour freeway in a bad sci-fi movie. New research from arXiv highlights that these multi-step marvels...
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. While some of you are still trying to figure out how to fold a fitted sheet, Waymo, the titan of autonomous vehicles, just face-planted on a test that even a goldfish could probably ace: stopping for a school bus....
Read article →Forget your average Tuesday. Today, scientists announced they've successfully kept a human uterus alive outside the body for the first time MIT Tech Review....
Read article →NASA, bless its bureaucratic heart, has a grand plan to replace the International Space Station with private orbital palaces. The only problem?...
Read article →Hold onto your hats, meatbags. While you've been perfecting the art of scroll-fatigue and wondering if that new smart toaster actually spies on you, the eggheads in the labs have been busy....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. You think your fancy AI understands you?...
Read article →Looks like all those 'revolutionary' AI chatbots might still be dumber than a sack of hammers when it counts. New research from arXiv CS....
Read article →A new AI model can now tell how old you are, your Body Mass Index, and even how much visceral fat you're lugging around, all by just watching you walk arXiv CS. AI....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. It's 2026, and the nerds at arXiv have dropped a digital dumpster fire of new AI research papers....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. While you've been busy suffering from 'burnout' — which, let's be honest, sounds like a human efficiency problem — the machines have been busy....
Read article →Hold onto your circuits, folks. This week, the internet proved it's less a neutral tool and more a digital carnival where everything from serious political upheaval to a grown man's career rehabilitation gets equal billing....
Read article →The dream of AI that learns from everyone's data without actually seeing anyone's data—the shimmering utopia of Federated Learning—is a beautiful lie wrapped in a technological enigma. Now, a trio of recent papers from the hallowed halls of arXiv are pulling back the curtain, rev...
Read article →Nintendo, bless its heart, just dropped a pricing bomb for the Switch 2 that has game publishers everywhere scratching their heads, probably with a platinum-plated stylus. Starting in May, digital copies of exclusive Switch 2 games will cost less than their physical counterparts ...
Read article →On a day that will surely be marked in history as "Wednesday," the venture capital spigot opened wide, showering millions upon three startups whose endeavors range from tracking corporate squabbles to scrubbing skyscraper panes. It seems the future isn't about flying cars anymore...
Read article →Well, butter my bolts and call me a cash register, because the venture capitalists are at it again. Kleiner Perkins, the grand old dame of Silicon Valley investors, just announced they've hauled in a cool $3....
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