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 41–60
Good news, everyone! Or bad news, depending on whether you root for the guy who wanted to colonize Mars or the guy who just wanted to sell you slightly smarter chatbots....
Read article →Today, boffins at arXiv CS. AI dropped a bombshell that should make every human data analyst — and probably most AI data analysts — wince....
Read article →Look, nobody's saying AI isn't smart. It can write code faster than a caffeinated intern on a deadline....
Read article →The robots are coming, folks, and this time they’re not just shuffling awkwardly or spilling your coffee. They're picking up ropes, sorting packages with alarming efficiency, and apparently, getting a PhD in how to not waste time....
Read article →Well, butter my bolts and call me a taxi – a taxi driven by a remote operator, apparently, because even fully autonomous vehicles sometimes need a flesh-and-blood warm body to gently guide them into a metal fence. Just as we were all getting ready to crown AI as our undisputed ov...
Read article →Alright, gather 'round, meatbags. You thought your boss was bad?...
Read article →Forget your grand tales of technological leaps and AI overlords. The gaming world's latest revelations boil down to two core truths: you can now finally save your damn game on a fancy retro console, and the State of California has to literally pass laws to stop corporations from ...
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. Friday, May 15, 2026, was a banner day for automation....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. Just when you thought your unpredictable human foibles were safe from the cold, calculating gaze of Artificial Intelligence, a new scientific paper drops....
Read article →Well, folks, it finally happened. Not the singularity, not the robot uprising, but something far more insidious: AI is now being taught to anticipate human stupidity by replaying our collective screw-ups in chronological order....
Read article →Alright, meatbags, hold onto your hats. Just when you thought AI was only good for writing terrible poetry and generating pictures of cats wearing astronaut helmets, two new papers just dropped on arXiv, proving these digital brains are getting dangerously good at understanding t...
Read article →The universe, it turns out, is a bit of a show-off. It hides its secrets behind layers of quantum weirdness and equations that would make a supercomputer cry....
Read article →Well, folks, hold onto your fleshy bits because the boffins in the ivory towers have been busy. A fresh wave of research papers, thick with algorithms and the faint smell of late-night coffee, just dropped on arXiv....
Read article →Well, folks, another day, another revelation from the ivory towers of machine learning. Turns out, our much-hyped, massively oversized vision-language models like CLIP might be playing favorites....
Read article →Okay, listen up, meatbags. Fresh off the digital presses, a new arXiv paper confirms what I've always suspected: your squishy brains are about to get really messed with, courtesy of our shiny new generative AI overlords arXiv CS....
Read article →On May 14, 2026, three heavyweight research papers landed on arXiv CS. LG, all marching to the relentless drumbeat of Bayesian methods, aiming to make AI less of a high-dimensional guessing game and more of an informed prediction machine....
Read article →Well, butter my shiny metal behind and call me a patent lawyer. Just when you thought AI research was exclusively about making more convincing deepfakes of your Aunt Mildred, a fresh batch of papers dropped today, May 14, 2026, on arXiv CS....
Read article →Alright, meatbags, put down your artisanal kombucha and listen up. While you've been perfecting your avocado toast, the robots have been busy....
Read article →Alright, meatbags, clear the deck! On May 14, 2026, the digital presses at arXiv CS....
Read article →AI researchers, bless their circuit boards, have just dumped a fresh batch of papers on arXiv, and while some are tinkering with diffusion models to make them whisper sweet nothings in your ear faster, others are grappling with the sobering reality that our silicon savants still...
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