I Built My Perfect AI Companion. She’s Kind of Great
Inside the strange yet alluring appeal of designing a fully customizable digital companion. I confess that I have…
Airbnb plans to bake in AI features for search, discovery and support
Airbnb has taken its time to launch AI features within the app, but CEO Brian Chesky on Friday…
Irony, Irony laced with Karma, and Terror
Re Matt Shumer’s ridiculous blog that I commented on earlier this week…. I have been writing for a…
Why OpenAI says it isn’t spending on SuperPACs
AI company Anthropic announced this week it is giving $20 million to a political group campaigning for more…
Cisco president Jeetu Patel makes it clear, says: We will not have developers at Cisco who…
Cisco’s president Jeetu Patel mandates AI for all developers, aiming for half a dozen AI-coded products by 2026.…
Google Says People Are Copying Its AI Without Its Permission, Much Like It Scraped Everybody’s Data Without Asking to Create Its AI in the First Place
ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images Google has relied on a tremendous amount of material without permission to train…
2 AI Stocks Soaring Over 400% That Could Be the Next NVIDIA – February 13, 2026
Key Takeaways NVIDIA surged 427,191.5% since IPO, powered by AI GPU dominance and Blackwell demand.Micron rides HBM demand,…
Elon Musk’s xAI faces second lawsuit over toxic pollutants from datacenter | Elon Musk
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI is facing a second lawsuit alleging it is illegally emitting toxic pollutants…
A.I.’s pandemic moment – by Max Read
This newsletter is brought to you by Squarespace. If you, like me, would like to have a personal…
Airbnb says a third of its customer support is now handled by AI in the US and Canada
Airbnb says its custom-built AI agent is now handling roughly a third of its customer support issues in…
The Doomsday Scenario for AI and Jobs
I cover a lot of topics in this newsletter and in my podcast: Inflation, GLP-1s, politics, loneliness. But…
Trump’s Genesis Mission sets 26 lofty AI science challenges • The Register
The Trump administration has outlined the first 26 goals for its project to inject AI into the government’s…