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Six months ago, an Austrian developer named Peter Steinberger uploaded Openclaw to GitHub. Not a model. A wrapper: plug in any AI brain, and it becomes an autonomous agent that actually does things. Book restaurant reservations. Manages your email. Bids on eBay. Runs locally through WhatsApp or Telegram, on your own machine, no subscription required. […]
Have you watched that animated series on Netflix called Pantheon? If you haven’t, here’s a quick rundown: the show is about “uploaded intelligence,” meaning the copying of a human brain onto a chip or computerized system. I bring this up because recently, scientists copied a fruit fly brain into a computer, neuron by neuron, synapse by […]
Two hundred thousand human brain cells, grown on a microchip, brain organoids, have been trained to play the original Doom. These brain organoids are moving, aiming, and shooting in a feedback loop driven entirely by biological neural activity. The research comes from Cortical Labs, a Melbourne-based team working at the intersection of synthetic biology and […]
Soulja Boy has been “the first” at a lot of things. From the first rapper to appear on YouTube, the first rapper with an iced-out G-Shock, and even the first rapper to release a video game console. Now, Bland AI is positioning him as the first rapper to automate his voice with AI. The rollout […]
This week, a new social media site launched with skyrocketing amounts of visits, but most of them weren’t humans. Moltbook is a Reddit-style social network built for AI agents, not humans. Agents post, comment, create communities, and interact through APIs, while humans mostly watch from the sidelines. The site has gone viral because it turns […]
I’ve built personal sites before. I’ve used Wix, Weebly, and Squarespace. They all work, and they’re all “easy” in the way people mean when they say you can publish a site in a weekend. But none of them ever felt like they reflected the theme I wanted. I’d start with a template, tweak fonts and […]
One of the biggest critiques of AI chatbots is their repetitive, unoriginal, and unengaging responses. Prompt engineering has been the most effective means to overcome these issues. However, even with the most advanced models to date, we still get generic and slop results. The solution? Verbalized Sampling in place of Direct Prompting, a method introduced in the 2024 […]
MIT Technology Review and Databricks recently released a report that surveyed 800 senior executives across 12 countries, chief information officers, data officers, and technologists running some of the world’s largest companies. What they found was astonishing: despite an explosion in AI adoption, only 2% of organizations say their AI strategies actually deliver measurable business results. Most firms have embraced […]
Nowadays, everyone feels like everything is fighting for your attention: social media, text messages, phone calls, streaming apps, reading, online shopping, gambling, and whatever else you can do on your phone. It can feel like your attention is stretched across eight different places at once, like tabs in a browser you never fully close. And […]
Artificial intelligence is hungry. Training today’s AI systems requires massive amounts of energy, often on the scale of megawatts. However, in Switzerland, a startup called Final Spark is exploring a radically different approach: using living neurons to build computers that are a million times more energy-efficient than silicon. It sounds like science fiction, but it’s already here. Final Spark […]
If you’ve scrolled TikTok for longer than 30 minutes recently, you’ve likely stumbled upon a Reddit story or AITA post narrated over Minecraft parkour or Subway Surfers gameplay. Strangely captivating yet oddly soothing videos are part of a new trend called “PDF to Brainrot.” This trend combines AI-driven narration of text, such as textbooks or […]
Last year, I enrolled in the Applied Generative AI certificate program at Johns Hopkins University, delivered in partnership with Great Learning. I wasn’t looking for just another bootcamp or explainer series. I wanted to go beyond the buzzwords — to get under the hood of AI systems and build something real. As someone who works in new […]