AI has been blamed for a tsunami of cheating that’s taken hold in the U.S. educational system in recent years. Just this week, I interviewed a college professor who explained how bad it’s gotten lately—particularly when it comes to AI-generated essay writing. Now, one of the heavy hitters of the AI industry, OpenAI, says it […]
The End of Work as We Know It
For centuries, work has defined us. It has given us identity, purpose, and status in society. But what happens when work, our source of income, itself begins to disappear? Not because of war, depression, or outsourcing, but because of algorithms. What does it mean to work in an AI-driven economy? I spent this month of […]
This Small Town Greek Doctor on How He Uses AI: ‘’Without AI, Q Fever Might Not Have Been on Our List”
Ioannina, a lakeside town in northern Greece surrounded by mountains, is not the kind of place you expect to find cutting-edge artificial intelligence quietly reshaping medicine. Yet, inside its main public hospital, Dr. Tzimas is doing just that. Dr. Tzimas is quietly reshaping how medicine is practiced. From spotting rare diseases like Q fever to […]
Google and OpenAI Chatbots Claim Gold at International Math Olympiad
Sure, but let’s see these models medal on a 100-yard dash. Artificial intelligence models developed by Google’s DeepMind team and OpenAI have a new accolade they can add to their list of achievements: they have defeated some high schoolers in math. Both companies have claimed to achieve a gold medal at this year’s International Mathematical […]
ChatGPT Agent Wants You to Hand Over Full Control of Your Computer
OpenAI is trying to leave behind the restrictive walls of a chatbot text box and expand into every nook and cranny of your device. On Thursday, the company announced ChatGPT Agent, its foray into the growing “agentic” space that allows artificial intelligence models to perform specific tasks. According to the company, the ChatGPT Agent uses […]
An Engineer’s Diary Reveals the Human Cost of Building OpenAI’s Next Big Thing
Behind the seemingly magical abilities of OpenAI’s technology lies a story of intense human effort and immense personal sacrifice. In a candid reflection posted on July 15, former top engineer Calvin French-Owen peeled back the curtain on the company’s high stakes culture. He detailed a product launch that was “unquestionably one of the highlights of […]
OpenAI Is Eating Microsoft’s Lunch
Microsoft has somehow managed to have another Cortana moment. Despite its AI assistant, Copilot, being built into Windows machines and compatible with the Microsoft 365 ecosystem that millions of people are stuck with, it simply cannot get people to love the in-house option. According to a new report, ChatGPT has managed to rack up about […]
How Google Killed OpenAI’s $3 Billion Deal Without an Acquisition
Google just dealt OpenAI a major blow by scuttling a potential $3 billion deal, and in doing so, solidified a rising trend in Silicon Valley’s AI arms race: the “non-acquisition acquisition.” Google announced on July 11 that it poached key talent from the rapidly rising AI startup Windsurf, which until then had a reported $3 […]
Free Lunch Is Over for the AI That Broke the Web
The foundational deal of the modern web, a handshake agreement that powered two decades of search and content, is officially dead. Cloudflare just put a price on scraping the internet, and it’s coming for artificial intelligence’s free lunch. Almost 30 years ago, two Stanford grad students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, built Google on a […]
Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Win AI by Copying Everyone Smarter Than Him
Mark Zuckerberg’s favorite move? Copy, poach, repeat. It made him one of the richest people on the planet. Now, he’s dusting off that playbook for his biggest challenge yet: the AI race. Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is on a hiring and buying spree, throwing eye-watering sums at top AI researchers and […]