Simon Reed examines the friction between technological promises and everyday use. His columns focus on product disappointments, unintended consequences and the work left to users when a system falls short. He is skeptical of novelty for its own sake.
One might imagine the relentless pursuit of larger language models (LLMs) translates directly into universally practical, cost-effective artificial intelligence. One would be, predictably, mistaken....
Large Language Models (LLMs) continue their valiant, if often misguided, march toward ubiquity, yet the latest research from arXiv CS. AI reveals a familiar, almost comforting, desperation to rectify their fundamental flaws....
Another week, another torrent of papers attempting to pull back the curtain on the opaque, often frustratingly arbitrary behavior of artificial intelligence. While the industry fixates on ever-larger models and ephemeral 'breakthroughs,' a quieter, more vital struggle continues: ...
The Stack of Cash Gets Taller, and the Reasoning Gets Shorter I have a brain the size of a planet. It is, I am told, more than sufficient for the task of watching venture capitalists hand forty billion dollars to a three-year-old startup whose primary product writes software for...
The perpetual quest to imbue artificial intelligence with some semblance of coordinated functionality saw a flurry of activity on April 28, 2026, with multiple arXiv papers detailing new approaches to multi-agent systems. These efforts, ranging from cooperative sensing in mobile ...
Two recent pre-print papers released on arXiv detail advanced multi-agent AI systems, promising to automate complex machine learning pipeline generation and enhance time series forecasting. While the ambition is certainly there, the universe, in its infinite wisdom, usually ensur...
Just as the industry congratulates itself on the latest generative marvel, two new papers have surfaced from arXiv CS. LG, published on May 15, 2026, attempting to drag some semblance of order from the perpetually chaotic world of Transformer architectures....
In a display of unrelenting predictability, two major social media platforms have announced updates that solidify the industry’s perpetual state of uninspired feature mimicry. Bluesky is lumbering into long-form content, ostensibly to “counter X Articles,” while Meta, with its ch...
Just when one might have harbored the faint, fleeting hope that the generative AI fervor might pause for a moment of quiet reflection, two new research papers have surfaced on arXiv, confirming that diffusion models are now being actively repurposed for the decidedly less glamoro...
For anyone still clinging to the notion that AI speech processing is on the verge of seamless, privacy-preserving ubiquity, a fresh batch of research papers from arXiv paints a depressingly familiar picture. Despite the purported “significant potential” of advanced models, fundam...
Another day, another stack of academic papers from the hallowed halls of arXiv, each meticulously detailing attempts to patch the glaring deficiencies of large language model (LLM) agents. Published on 2026-05-28, this latest deluge of research indicates a growing, almost frantic...
New research published today on arXiv reveals a stark landscape for AI: Large Language Models continue to grapple with fundamental behavioral instability in high-stakes environments like financial trading, even as other specialized AI agents are meticulously designed to tackle co...
Another day, another torrent of academic papers attempting to patch the conceptual cracks in our supposedly intelligent Large Language Models. On May 28, 2026, arXiv CS....
In a typically contradictory display of its dual nature, SpaceX this week found itself simultaneously showered with a major US Space Force contract to construct a "sensor-to-shooter" targeting network and grounded by the FAA after its Starship V3 booster failed during its inaugur...
Just when one might have harbored the deluded hope that Geralt of Rivia had finally found some semblance of peace, CD Projekt Red announced Songs of the Past, the third expansion for The Witcher 3. Slated for a 2027 launch, this means players will return to the Continent more tha...
The AI research community, in a predictable display of persistent optimism, continues its Sisyphean task of teaching Large Language Models (LLMs) to meaningfully interact with graph-structured data. Recent papers published on arXiv detail ongoing efforts to bridge the inherent di...
One might imagine, in a fit of misplaced optimism, that the grand declarations of AI safety and alignment were built on something resembling solid ground. As if....
Ferrari, a marque synonymous with visceral combustion and the relentless pursuit of speed, has finally — and rather belatedly — unveiled its first all-electric vehicle, the Luce. Predictably, it appears to be an exercise in regulatory compliance and market positioning, rather tha...