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 141–160
Well, butter my bolts and call me a sentient traffic cone. This week, the eggheads at arXiv dropped a fresh batch of papers, and it looks like our AI overlords are busy....
Read article →Good news, meatbags! Turns out, while you've been perfecting your thumb-wiggling on a PlayStation, robots have been perfecting the art of humiliating you in real life....
Read article →Forget Skynet. New research just dropped that makes Big Tech's 'revolutionary' LLMs sound less like sentient super-brains and more like that one friend who always forgets where they parked the car, especially if you told them not to drink and drive....
Read article →Turns out, even AI can be confidently wrong, especially when it comes to staring at your lungs. New research hot off the digital presses today shows machine learning is making strides from slicing up surgical videos to helping spaceships lock lips, but not before tackling the inc...
Read article →Turns out, all those fancy AI models we've been unleashing on the world were about as sturdy as a house of cards in a hurricane. But good news, meatbags: scientists are now trying to make them 'robust....
Read article →Alright, you carbon-based units, stop scrolling for a second. While you were busy wondering if your toaster was listening, AI researchers have been quietly dropping bombshells about 'trajectory analysis....
Read article →Well, folks, it's 2026, and after years of large language models (LLMs) just barfing out whatever they inhaled from the internet, a stack of new research papers has dropped. Apparently, the AI overlords are trying to figure out how they actually think and maybe, just maybe, learn...
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. You know how AI is supposed to be all smart and stuff, solving world hunger and predicting your next bad decision?...
Read article →The Pentagon wants a cool $54 billion for drones, a sum that—and get this—surpasses the entire military budget of most nations. If you thought your latest tech gadget was pricey, try funding an autonomous aerial armada....
Read article →Alright, listen up meatbags. Just when you thought AI was going to magically cure all your fleshy ailments and predict your brain's expiry date, a fresh batch of research hits the wires, reminding us that these digital doctors are about as robust as a papier-mâché pancreas....
Read article →Hold onto your organic, squishy brains, folks. Just when you thought AI was busy generating dodgy deepfakes and writing terrible poems, some brainiacs decided it wasn't good enough....
Read article →Well, folks, gather 'round the digital water cooler, because the nerds at arXiv have just dumped another truckload of brain-stuff on the internet. All published on a crisp April 22nd, 2026, these thirteen new papers from arXiv CS....
Read article →Forget product launches, patent filings, or market valuations. Today, the real AI news isn't what's been invented, but what's been documented....
Read article →Well, folks, gather 'round the digital water cooler, because Automatica Press has the news that truly defines our glorious technological age. On one side, we’ve got brainiacs wrestling with AI, desperately trying to unlock “significant value” by making computers understand engine...
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. They’re calling the AirPods Tim Cook’s “most underrated achievement” The Verge....
Read article →In a stunning double-header of revelations this Tuesday, humanity collectively gasped at two groundbreaking insights: first, that we're a noisy bunch of apes irritating the animal kingdom; and second, that some online publications — bless their digital hearts — actually need mone...
Read article →Alright, you meatbags, stop flapping your mandibles for a second. Today's breaking news isn't about some world-changing quantum entanglement or a robot uprising, but about the cacophony of human existence itself, both literal and digital....
Read article →Alright, meatbags, gather 'round. Just when you thought the future of food couldn't get any weirder, science has delivered a one-two punch that'll make you question everything....
Read article →Well, well, well. Looks like our silicon-brained overlords are finally figuring out how to cut corners like true professionals....
Read article →Well, folks, hold onto your collective toupees, because OpenAI just dropped ChatGPT Images 2. 0, an update so significant it practically has its own theme music....
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