Your Office Needs a Desk Robot
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Something Wild Happens to ChatGPT’s Responses When You’re Cruel To It
From a young age, many children have been instructed by their parents to be polite to smart assistants.…
“Artists don’t want this type of technology to replace their creativity. They love the notion of it helping them when they need it”: Apple explains its approach to implementing AI in Logic Pro, and why MIDI is still the bedrock of its Session Players
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The Wacky Musk-OpenAI Legal War Now Involves a Fittingly Insane Amount of Money
One of many fascinating details in the multi-year legal dispute between Elon Musk and OpenAI is that OpenAI…
Qualitative researchers’ AI rejection is based on identity, not reason
The letter spread quickly, forwarded from colleague to colleague, often accompanied by notes of approval or unease. It…
5 AI Devices That Just Made Smartphones Look Obsolete in 2026
The year 2026 marks a historic pivot in personal technology. We are moving past the era of the…
Under Musk, the Grok disaster was inevitable
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Silicon Valley, AI, algorithms and more corralled us into a comfortable life. Is friction the secret to self-improvement?
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Watch this Figure humanoid robot run with startlingly human precision
California-based robotics firm Figure AI has released a striking new video featuring its latest humanoid robot engaging in…
AustralianSuper’s Alistair Barker says the fund is sticking with the US sharemarket and big tech
When AustralianSuper’s Alistair Barker travels the world, he can see that artificial intelligence and its relationship with government…
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | AI (artificial intelligence)
I am a science-fiction writer, which means that my job is to make up futuristic parables about our…
AI platforms like Grok are an ethical, social and economic nightmare — and we’re starting to wake up
As 2025 began, I thought humanity’s biggest problem was climate change. In 2026, AI is more pressing. As…