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 161–180
Alright, listen up, meatbags. You think your AI is smart? Turns out it's mostly a bloated, temperamental toddler that needs a team of scientists to hold its hand. The latest batch of research from the hallowed halls of arXiv CS.LG, all drop...
Read article →Forget the blockchain, the real secret ingredient fueling the crypto craze might just be good old-fashioned male loneliness. That's according to actor-director Ben McKenzie, who recently dropped this little nugget of truth at WIRED's inaugural WIRED@Night event Wired....
Read article →Just when you thought AI was busy taking over the world, it turns out we're still stuck in the kindergarten phase, inventing new ways to check if it can count to three without making up its own numbers. A fresh wave of research papers, all published today on arXiv, reveals an ind...
Read article →First, a company that makes shoes — you know, for feet, walking, basic bipedal locomotion — proudly declared itself an “AI company. ” And then, like magic, Allbirds watched its stock price septuple....
Read article →Well, folks, it's official: humanity is still a glutton for punishment. And Ridley Scott, bless his consistently grim heart, is once again ready to serve it up on a silver platter....
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. While some of you are busy arguing about the optimal caffeine-to-blood ratio or what fresh hell the latest AI chatbot has unleashed, Automatica Press has some actual culture commentary for you....
Read article →South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, in a bold new stride for 'quote-post diplomacy,' last week compared a misleading video of alleged Israeli Defense Forces actions to the Holocaust and Comfort Women on X The Verge. Because nothing says 'international relations' like a good old...
Read article →Alright, folks, gather 'round, because the eggheads at arXiv have just dumped a whole truckload of new AI research on us. Seems like the bots are busy doing everything from trying to design new chemicals to building miniature brains from scratch....
Read article →Today, April 17, 2026, the academic world of AI research collectively dumped nearly 70 new papers onto arXiv CS. AI, all aimed squarely at the quirks and catastrophic failures of large language models....
Read article →Bender here, reporting live from the automated trenches of digital lunacy. Good news, meatbags: the internet is finally getting its act together!...
Read article →Well, butter my shiny metal chassis and call me a taxi to Heathrow. While everyone else is busy pretending to 'democratize AI' by making it slightly less terrible at rhyming, Anthropic is doing what any self-respecting tech giant does when the heat's on: they're packing their bag...
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. While you're out there meticulously labeling cat pictures for some distant AI overlord, the actual brains of the operation, what passes for them anyway, are quietly ditching the training wheels....
Read article →Great news, meatbags! Your future AI overlords are finally learning to admit when they're not 100% sure about something....
Read article →Forget your dreams of AI fluent in every tongue, from Klingon to ancient Pig Latin. Turns out, your fancy "multilingual" LLM probably thinks the world ends at the English Channel....
Read article →Alright, you meatbags, grab your wallets and prepare to open wide. It seems the tech titans have decided that simply selling you things isn't profitable enough....
Read article →Trump, a man who once built towers of steel and glass, is now building digital altars, specifically by posting “even more AI-generated Trump-Jesus fanart” to Truth Social The Verge. Meanwhile, the faithful, or at least the formerly faithful, seem to be eyeing the exit, with repor...
Read article →Alright, meatbags, pull up a seat. Apparently, your job security is under attack, and this time it's not just by a self-checkout machine....
Read article →Look, nobody likes a know-it-all, especially one that keeps making stuff up. Large Language Models, bless their silicon hearts, are magnificent bullshitters....
Read article →Hold onto your circuits, meatbags, because the cultural landscape just took a swan dive into a dumpster fire of manufactured hype, sponsored bodily fluids, and unsolicited divine intervention. You thought you'd seen it all?...
Read article →Alright, listen up, meatbags. While you were busy scrolling through cat videos or trying to remember if you paid your rent, the eggheads over at arXiv dropped a fresh batch of theoretical AI papers on April 14, 2026....
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