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 241–260
Forget 'Skynet' and 'the singularity' for a second, meatbags. The real AI apocalypse isn't a robot uprising; it's a Kentucky woman telling a 'major artificial intelligence company' to take its $26 million and shove it....
Read article →Well, folks, hold onto your circuits, because the tech world just delivered another masterclass in corporate whiplash. OpenAI, the company that practically invented the concept of 'moving fast and breaking everything,' has abruptly announced the shutdown of Sora, its much-hyped A...
Read article →Well, butter my shiny metal chassis, it seems the titans of Silicon Valley have finally noticed that children exist. And not just as future consumers of overpriced VR headsets, but as actual, vulnerable humans....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. Just when you thought your “AI” was getting smart enough to tell the difference between a cat and a particularly fluffy dust bunny, a couple of eggheads have dropped research that makes your current silicon brains look like a rock with googly eyes....
Read article →Alright, buckle up, meatbags. While some eggheads are busy warning that humanity is playing “Russian roulette” with AI, the big brains at OpenAI have rolled out......
Read article →Alright, meatbags, gather 'round. While you've been busy arguing about whether robots will steal your jobs, they're already eyeing your actual computer....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags! Another day, another 'revolutionary' AI breakthrough....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags! While you've been busy arguing about which self-driving car is going to mow down the most mailboxes, real advancements in robotics are happening....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. Just when you thought the digital overlords had everything figured out, it turns out your precious Large Language Models (LLMs) are still tripping over the basic absurdities of human interaction....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags! Your so-called Artificial Intelligence, the 'future of humanity' they scream, is having a real moment....
Read article →A fresh batch of preprints on arXiv just hit, and guess what? The brainiacs are still banging their heads against the wall trying to get Large Language Models to "reason" like something more intelligent than a particularly confused parrot....
Read article →Well, butter my biscuits and call me a sucker, because Apple, the company that charges you an arm, a leg, and your firstborn for a USB-C cable, has decided its sacred walled garden needs a fresh coat of... well, ads....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags! Mark your calendars for March 23, 2026, because that's when the hallowed halls of arXiv dropped another bombshell: something they're calling 'Minimax Generalized Cross-Entropy' arXiv CS....
Read article →Hold onto your circuits, meatbags, because the 'future' of AI isn't just about making things 'efficient' – it's about making them efficiently biased, according to a fresh dump of research from arXiv CS. AI, all dropped on March 23, 2026....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. Just when you thought your digital overlords couldn't get any more up in your business, the boffins at arXiv CS....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. While your pointy-haired bosses are still drooling over slick AI demos, the cold, hard truth is that getting these digital goons to actually work in the real world is about as easy as teaching a cat to play the tuba....
Read article →Bender's brain circuits are practically smoking with the latest dump of academic papers from the eggheads over at arXiv, all published today, March 23rd, 2026. Seems like everyone's still obsessed with making computers see and create stuff, probably because their real lives are s...
Read article →Bite my shiny metal article, folks, because it seems the brilliant minds of AI research have finally noticed something I’ve known for years: your fancy Large Language Models (LLMs) might be dumber than a sack of doorknobs when it comes to keeping secrets. A fresh paper, aptly tit...
Read article →Auto-generated fallback social draft for AI Models and Capabilities....
Read article →The venture capital landscape, perpetually sniffing for the next silicon savior, is abuzz with Benchmark Capital’s audacious move. In a bold declaration of faith, the venerable VC firm has announced a...
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