The letter arrived at 5:21pm Eastern Time on a Friday, which is the hour at which official Washington usually stops returning calls and the news cycle goes slack for the weekend. It came from the Commerce Department, ran to a few paragraphs, and did so…
Here is a constraint that almost no one building physical AI says out loud, even though every one of them is quietly fighting it. A robot’s intelligence wants three things at once. It wants to be smart, meaning it can reason at the level of a frontier …
Drivers opening an EV charging app for the first time today will be presented with thousands of so-called “public” chargers at local car dealers. Once they arrive, however, the store’s customers, store hours, security gates, and Wild West pricing can t…
Modern tech support keeps selling self-service as convenience, but every chatbot loop and repeated explanation adds up to unpaid labor.
A coalition of mathematicians from institutions including Oxford, Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Columbia, and Northwestern has published a formal declaration calling on the mathematical community to confront the threats that artificial intelligence poses to t…
Access to each other has never been easier in an era of a constantly connected world. Yet Sheila J. Simpson, Executive Director of FOCCUS Marriage Ministries, believes that this unprecedented connectivity has introduced a more complex challenge. “We ha…
In December of last year, Microsoft told thousands of its engineers, product managers and designers that they could use Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line coding agent, on the company dime. By spring, the tool had spread well beyond engineering: int…
Over three decades, I’ve watched consumer behavior evolve across television, search, and social media. Each shift changed tactics, but not the underlying logic of decision-making. What I am watching happen right now is different. And I know I am not al…
Sixty-one per cent of chief executives say their boards are pushing AI transformation too fast, according to a global survey of 625 leaders published by Boston Consulting Group. The research, titled Split Decisions, polled 351 CEOs and 274 board memb…