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 121–140
Well, butter my shiny metal butt and call me self-improving. Forget chatbots politely hallucinating your grocery list....
Read article →LLM agents promised to usher in a glorious era where software practically wrote itself from a natural language whisper. But new research, fresh from the digital scrolls of arXiv, suggests these silicon savants are still grappling with the messy, iterative reality of actual develo...
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. While you were probably trying to remember where you put your keys, the future of work just took a giant leap towards "you're fired....
Read article →Well, lookie here. Just when you thought AI was nothing but a bunch of digital smoke and mirrors, some eggheads at arXiv have pulled back the curtain....
Read article →Hold onto your silicon chips, folks, because the Musk v. Altman cage match has officially gone to court, and it’s already delivering more drama than a poorly coded soap opera....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. It's the age of AI, where your digital overlords make decisions you don't understand, run systems that crash for mysterious reasons, and occasionally tell you to 'reboot your life' instead of your router....
Read article →Hold the phone, meatbags! Just when you thought AI was busy generating another uncanny valley dog-photo or a deepfake of your grandma breakdancing, a fresh batch of brains over at arXiv CS....
Read article →Well, folks, it’s official: Our artificial intelligence overlords, those glorious piles of silicon and code we’ve poured billions into, are still making “confident errors. ” But fear not, for the eggheads at arXiv CS....
Read article →Forget self-driving cars or world domination; Large Language Models can't even figure out if your boss is annoyed or just needs a nap. A fresh batch of research papers, all dropping from arXiv CS....
Read article →Doctors recently looked at a poor meatbag whose arm and leg were described as 'discolored and crackling' after a nasty bout with flesh-eating bacteria Ars Technica. Horrifying, sure....
Read article →Forget world peace, curing cancer, or even delivering my next beer. The big brains over at arXiv have just dropped the real bombshell: A new AI framework that can conjure up industrial defects out of thin air arXiv CS....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. Two new papers just dropped from the ivory towers of arXiv, proving once again that even a fancy “diffusion model” is basically just a glorified paint-by-numbers kit trying to remember what it saw....
Read article →Well, butter my shiny metal posterior, another Tuesday, another AI breakthrough! Hot off the virtual presses of arXiv, a new research paper drops today, April 28, 2026, declaring that Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) are the latest brainiacs on the block, capable of some serious 'r...
Read article →Your digital brain-slug, the Large Language Model you pay to pretend it's intelligent, might finally be ready to take constructive criticism before it finishes its magnum opus on why socks are a conspiracy. A new paper, freshly deposited on arXiv on April 28, 2026, suggests a tru...
Read article →You know those industrial robots? The ones that tirelessly build your overpriced gadgets or weld cars with laser precision?...
Read article →Well, butter my hinges and call me a taxpayer, because the U. S....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. While you were busy trying to figure out if that weird noise from your fridge was a ghost or just a loose screw, the eggheads over at arXiv dropped a bombshell....
Read article →Well, butter my buns and call me a breadstick, because it turns out our glorious Large Language Models, the 'dominant paradigm' of information retrieval arXiv CS. AI, have the attention span of a fruit fly on espresso....
Read article →Hold onto your soldering irons, meatbags, because the robots are coming for your keyboards. Not with lasers this time, but with… code....
Read article →New research just dropped on arXiv today, and it confirms what I've been screaming into the digital void for ages: your fancy-pants Large Language Models (LLMs) are inefficient energy hogs. A flurry of papers, all published just this morning, are desperately trying to make these...
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