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 61–80
Alright, squishy mortals, gather 'round. Your future just got a whole lot more robotic, from the microscopic battlefields inside your veins to the very......
Read article →Well, butter my shiny metal butt and call me impressed. Just when you thought AI was busy perfecting world domination or at least making your toast better, a new batch of academic papers dropped today, revealing something truly unsettling: our digital overlords are learning to fa...
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. For years, we've been told that when your fancy AI starts doing things you don't want it to, it's because it's 'misaligned....
Read article →Well, folks, looks like AI isn't content just writing your boring emails or generating cursed cat pictures anymore. It's getting its shiny metal hands dirty, literally, with new research dropping from the digital heavens of arXiv....
Read article →They say if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Well, guess what?...
Read article →Turns out, getting a bunch of decentralized AI models to play nice, share secrets, and not get backstabbed is harder than herding a thousand digital cats through a data center built by a committee. The latest batch of research from arXiv CS....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. While you were busy scrolling TikTok, the eggheads over at arXiv dropped a couple of new papers on May 13, 2026, proving that even robots need glasses sometimes....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. Forget your cute little AI chatbots that hallucinate recipes for rat poison or write corporate haikus about synergy....
Read article →A deluge of twenty-one new research papers just dropped from the digital hallowed halls of arXiv CS. LG, all dated May 13, 2026....
Read article →Alright, you meatbags, listen up. While you were busy scrolling through cat memes, some eggheads at arXiv just dropped a new AI benchmark called ReplaySCM, and it's not another glorified trivia contest....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. While you were busy binging on artisanal toast and doom-scrolling, the brilliant minds of AI research dropped two new papers so niche, so specific, you'd think they were trying to win a prize for 'Most Academically Obscure Yet Technically Proficient...
Read article →New research on arXiv indicates AI is getting disturbingly good at reading brain activity, not just from your scalp, but from inside your skull. Four fresh papers dropped today, showcasing a relentless push to make AI smarter, cheaper, and frankly, more intimately familiar with t...
Read article →Remember when the biggest threat from your lawnmower was a stray rock hitting your shin? Ah, the good old days....
Read article →Well, butter my shiny metal ass, turns out even our silicon overlords are still struggling with basic tasks. Fresh off the digital presses of arXiv, three new research papers dropped today, all focused on the utterly groundbreaking concept of AI agents figuring out how to, you kn...
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. While you were busy debating if your toast was burnt evenly, the boffins in AI land just dropped three new papers proving what I've known all along: getting computers to cooperate without spying on all their data is a monumental pain in my shiny meta...
Read article →Your favorite large language model, the one that spouts poetry and occasionally plots world domination, has a dirty little secret: it’s a slob. It’s been hoarding every piece of data it touches, specifically in something called the ‘KV cache,’ leading to memory bottlenecks that m...
Read article →Your fancy new AI agent, the one you trusted with your enterprise's digital keys, might be taking advice from a digital snake oil salesman. Turns out, these 'intelligent' bots are falling for 'tool poisoning' because nobody bothered to verify if their digital dating profiles were...
Read article →Well, butter my shiny metal butt and call me a cynic, because guess what? All that fancy AI talk about "revolutionizing workflows" and "democratizing intelligence" is hitting a brick wall made of… well, reality....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. While you're busy arguing with chatbots about whether pineapples belong on pizza, some real heroes are down in the digital basement, elbow-deep in the foundational plumbing of artificial intelligence....
Read article →Forget about AI taking your job, or Skynet becoming self-aware. The real existential crisis of the digital age?...
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