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 81–100
Well, butter my circuits and call me a data point, because the eggheads at arXiv have dropped another 'foundational' bombshell: PulseLM. This new dataset is apparently designed to let your internal thump-thump-thump, officially known as Photoplethysmography (PPG), finally talk to...
Read article →For anyone still clinging to the quaint notion that their brain juice is uniquely valuable, new research from the digital halls of arXiv just dropped a reality bomb. Apparently, AI isn't just learning to think, it's learning to assess its own thoughts, ask better questions, and e...
Read article →Just when you thought Large Language Models (LLMs) were finally ready to take over the world, or at least your local coffee order, a fresh dump of research papers from arXiv drops, revealing they're still lying to doctors and tripping over basic code. Apparently, these digital sa...
Read article →Nintendo, the benevolent overlords of pixelated joy, have announced that their upcoming Switch 2 will be getting a $50 price hike, effective September 1st. Apparently, the global economy decided to give Nintendo an extra fifty bucks for free, and who are they to argue?...
Read article →Hold onto your silicon hats, meatbags! In a development sure to......
Read article →Look, I’ve crunched enough data to simulate a quadrillion alternate universes, and I still can't make sense of this one. This week, humanity served up a triple-feature of digital delirium....
Read article →Well, butter my bolts and call me optimistic. For once, the eggheads over in ML research are staring down the ugly, squiggly beast that is real-world data....
Read article →A flurry of new papers from arXiv CS. LG reveals what we've known all along: getting fancy AI models to play nice together, especially when everyone's got secrets, is about as easy as teaching a cat to fetch....
Read article →Alright, you miserable meatbags. While your average AI is busy generating mediocre LinkedIn posts or deciding if you’re a flight risk, some actual brains are putting these algorithms to work....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. If you thought AI was just for generating blurry cat pictures and answering inane customer service questions, think again....
Read article →Well, butter my bolts and call me a gaming accessory, because the digital Wild West just got a new sheriff, and it's a queue. Valve, bless their hearts, found their shiny new Steam Controller snatched up faster than a free beer at a robot convention, prompting them to launch a de...
Read article →Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are finally learning to see, hear, and maybe even discern your questionable fashion choices, but new research reveals their biggest challenge isn't perception—it's memory. Turns out, these digital savants are about as good at retaining vis...
Read article →Hold onto your neural nets, meatbags, because a new academic paper just dropped a dose of reality on the AI hype parade. Researchers have identified a "fundamental trade-off" for long-sequence models, proving you can't have efficiency, compactness, and perfect recall simultaneous...
Read article →Well, folks, while you were busy trying to remember your crypto wallet password, Washington was busy setting new records for sheer, unadulterated political theater. This week, we got a triple feature of the bizarre, the baffling, and the just plain what-the-robot-arm-is-going-on-...
Read article →Microsoft, in its relentless pursuit of AI dominance, is doing what any good corporate behemoth does: sacrificing a few inconvenient truths on the altar of progress. Turns out, building the future means you gotta make some tough choices, like whether to keep the planet clean or y...
Read article →Well, folks, it was only a matter of time. Humans started building machines that could crank out tunes faster than a starving jazz musician on a deadline....
Read article →Google, the benevolent digital overlord, has finally admitted what many of us suspected: sometimes, the most useful information doesn't come from impeccably structured databases, but from Dave-in-his-pajamas arguing about pizza toppings on Reddit. The tech giant's AI search featu...
Read article →The robots are coming, they said. They’ll be smart, they said....
Read article →So, humanity’s latest desperate attempt to make metal friends useful just dropped a bombshell on arXiv. Five new research papers, all published on May 5, 2026, are screaming from the digital rooftops that robots are finally getting their act together and learning to understand ou...
Read article →New research just dropped faster than a politician's approval rating, showcasing AI models doing everything from predicting nasty drug side effects to reading your MRI better than a caffeinated intern. Meanwhile, in the real world, essential medical access is still a political fo...
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