Free AI Is a Weapon
Fifty tech giants are giving away the engine of their AI to the entire world, competitors included. One major lab still refuses. A breakdown of a billion-dollar strategic bet, where openness is not generosity but a weapon.
Fifty tech giants are giving away the engine of their AI to the entire world, competitors included. One major lab still refuses. A breakdown of a billion-dollar strategic bet, where openness is not generosity but a weapon.
In 1492, a monk had a book printed to defend scribes against the printing press. Five centuries later, the same little voice whispers that your job, at least, will withstand AI. Here is why it is lying, and how to answer it today.
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A coach asked me a four-word question, then stayed silent for ten seconds. I walked away with an answer I didn’t know I carried. Why silence leads better than the best advice.
Had Einstein owned ChatGPT, he would never have used it to think for him. Why outsourcing your critical thinking to AI sabotages exactly what makes an innovator.
Zach King wants to “steal the AI’s job” with handmade videos. Behind the joke: the fear of becoming obsolete, and a strategy to stay unimitable.
A rural New York school district is deploying a €50,000 humanoid robot in its science classes. Behind the spectacular object lies an adoption problem I see in nine organisations out of ten: they buy before they communicate.
An Anthropic chart is everywhere: a huge blue area of theoretical capability, a small red area of actual usage. Except the blue comes from an opinion issued in 2023 about GPT-3.5, with a generous rounding rule, and the report itself concludes there is no measurable employment effect. Decoding a viral object that works like an advertisement.
In 1983 in Aspen, Steve Jobs described a machine that could answer in your place after your death. He announced a 50 to 100 year horizon. The architecture that made it possible arrived 34 years later. That gap explains what a corporate vision is actually for: cutting.
While labs burned billions to create synthetic blood, Franck Zal picked the solution up at low tide. The story of the marine worm that preserves organ grafts, and what it reveals about our blindness to hidden value.
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The rumor is delicious: SpaceX may be preparing an AI smartphone thinner than the iPhone. Elon Musk denies it. And yet, the real shockwave is
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A tiny beak, a major linguistic slap A bird has just put humanity in linguistic distress. For centuries, we looked at animals as if they