Generative AI hype distracts us from AI’s more important breakthroughs

It's a seductive distraction from the advances in AI that are most likely to improve or even save your life

The AI doomers feel undeterred

But they certainly wish people were still taking their threats really seriously.

What even is the AI bubble?

Everyone in tech agrees we’re in a bubble. They just can’t agree on what it looks like — or what happens when it pops.

A brief history of Sam Altman’s hype

Here’s how pinning a utopian vision for AI on LLMs kicked off the hype cycle that’s causing fears of a bubble today.

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8 tips for rebuilding an AI-ready data strategy

With AI ambitions outpacing data readiness, CIOs must renovate their data strategies to create unified, AI-ready foundations capable of supporting enterprise-wide use cases.

New Technique Of Selective Gradient Masking Localizes Suspected Harmful AI-Based Mental Health Knowledge And Renders It Expungable

AI can give out bad mental health advice. This can occur due to initial training. A new technique uses knowledge localization to flag and remove it. An AI Insider scoop.

Who is Picea Robotics, Roomba’s new owner?

They make robot vacuums, lots of them

We can’t let AI capture our children’s minds

Chatbot teddies have given kids sex advice

Australia Industrial Robotics Market: Smart Manufacturing, Automation & Productivity Growth

How Industry 4.0 adoption, labor shortages and advanced automation are accelerating industrial robotics demand in Australia

How NVIDIA Turned ‘Gaming GPUs Go Brrr’ Into ‘Actually We Can Read The Language of Life Now’ (Part 1 of 2)

A deep, intuitive dive into why proteins are insanely complex, how folding defines life and disease, and how AI like AlphaFold finally cracked biology’s hardest problem.

Age of Semiconductors: How Memory Powers Rise of Humanoids

The second Age of Semiconductors episode covers the role memory plays in the evolution of robotics, as humanoids move from fiction to reality.

These Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks Are Up 257% and 316% So Far in 2025. Here’s Why They Could Be a Bust in 2026.

These companies have a careful balancing act to pull off in 2026 if they want to continue their run.

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The View From Inside the AI Bubble

Secret parties, lavish buffets, and talks of annihilation at one of the largest AI-research conferences

Grading Our 2025 AI Predictions: How Did We Do?

Making predictions is easy. Getting them right is harder. How did we do this year?

New artificial intelligence tool helps UH researchers unlock sun’s magnetic secrets

These advances allow researchers to see the sun’s magnetic landscape more accurately and improve predictions of solar activity that impacts life on Earth, including solar flares and coronal ejections that can disrupt satellites, power systems and communications.

If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?

The technological race among industry giants and the wave of layoffs they have announced has revived the debate about the advisability of taxing automation

Schumer slams alleged Instacart artificial intelligence-powered price changes

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-New York) is accusing Instacart of ripping off consumers by charging different prices for the same product to different customers. “This is jacking up grocery costs across New York City, Long Island, and across the nation,” Schumer said Sunday. He claims the pricing tactics could cost certain families as much as $1,200 more per year. Schumer cited…

AI agents are starting to eat SaaS

Software ate the world. Agents are going to eat SaaS.

Opera launches Neon browser globally with paid early access

Opera Neon is now available globally with a $19.90 monthly subscription, offering AI-powered agents, premium models, and experimental workflows.

Kindle’s in-book AI assistant can answer all your questions without spoilers

Amazon's latest feature lets you use AI within your Kindle to refresh your memory on character or plot points.

HyperCard on the Macintosh

How do we approach the challenge of helping non-programmers build software? Do we throw up our hands at today's complexity and say, "Just let an AI do it." Or, do we make tools so *compelling* a novice can build something interesting almost by accident. We had that once. Let's see what was lost.

Google Paid to Fete Key Lawmakers at a Secret Summit

Google recently paid state lawmakers upward of $2,000 as “gifts” to cover their attendance at a secret all-inclusive summit with “educational” sessions discussing artificial intelligence and other issues that many of these officials will soon be voting on.