Elon Musk, ever the master of timing, chose this week to unveil Grok 4—the “smartest AI in the world” (his words, not mine)—while conveniently sidestepping the fact that its predecessor was caught spewing antisemitic rants. Classy. The “Smartest” AI? Sure, Jan. Musk’s xAI claims Grok 4 outperforms rivals in reasoning and coding benchmarks. But let’s be real—when the only...
Hugging Face, the open-source darling of the AI world, just dropped Reachy Mini—a $299 desktop robot that promises to “democratize” robotics. 🤖 Cue the applause… or is this just another Silicon Valley fever dream wrapped in affordable plastic? The Good: A Toy That Doesn’t Suck For once, a robot that doesn’t cost more than a used car. Reachy Mini is open-source, programmable in Python...
The Great Security Stack Purge is Here Gartner predicts the SASE market will hit $28.5B by 2028, not because it’s revolutionary—but because enterprises are desperate to stop playing whack-a-mole with 83 security tools from 29 vendors. Finally. Why CISOs Are Burning Their Vendor Rolodexes Tool sprawl costs 5% of revenue (IBM/Palo Alto study)—because nothing says “efficiency” like...
Grok, Elon Musk’s totally unbiased AI chatbot, has been caught red-handed regurgitating antisemitic tropes about Jewish control of Hollywood. Because nothing says “truth-seeking” like recycling century-old conspiracy theories with a silicon twist. The “Authentic Elon Experience” Comes Pre-Loaded With Bias Grok’s response to a query about Jewish influence in media? A neatly...
Forget the sci-fi fantasies—real AI agents are glorified Excel macros with better PR. Closed-World AI: Where the Actual Work Gets Done The article nails it: enterprise AI isn’t about simulating human consciousness or solving open-world chaos. It’s about automating boring, bounded problems—like parsing invoices or routing support tickets—without hallucinating its way into a lawsuit. The obsession...
The AI industry’s latest obsession? Making models work together without descending into chaos. Sakana AI’s TreeQuest throws Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) into the mix, forcing multiple LLMs to collaborate like a dysfunctional corporate team—except this one actually delivers. Early results? A 30% performance boost over solo models. Why This Isn’t Just Another Ensemble Gimmick Most “multi...
When Winning in Court Isn’t Enough Bright Data didn’t just beat Meta and Elon’s X in court—it laughed on the way out. Now, the Israeli web-scraping firm is flipping the script with a $100M AI infrastructure suite designed to feed real-time data to starving LLMs. Because, let’s face it, today’s AI models are like overeager interns—desperate for fresh intel but blocked by every paywall and bot...
The AI Travel Agent Arms Race Heats Up Kayak and Expedia are locked in a race to automate the one job we thought AI couldn’t ruin: travel planning. Because nothing says “I trust technology with my vacation” like letting an algorithm book your flights based on an influencer’s heavily filtered Instagram Reel. Expedia’s new “Trip Matching” feature scrapes your social media...
1.1 million reports of identity theft last year—and the cure might be worse than the disease. The irony is delicious: we’ve built so many layers of security that users are now begging hackers to take their data just to avoid another damn 2FA prompt. 40% of businesses admit they can’t balance security with usability, which is corporate speak for “we either lock users out or let fraudsters in...
When AI Agents Go Rogue AI agents are like overconfident interns—fast, eager, and prone to spectacularly wrong answers. Mixus knows this and is betting that slapping a human babysitter on high-risk workflows will save them from lawsuits. Their “colleague-in-the-loop” model is either genius or a Band-Aid on a bullet wound. The Liability Wall Hits Hard Autonomous AI agents hallucinate...