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The AI industry’s first great act of marketing was labeling its products as intelligence, a term so general and poorly understood in humans that it could encompass anything.

He came to pity the state. All it could do was lock up his body, which changed his thoughts not a bit.

When she looked out the spacecraft’s windows and saw the home planet, she said, “Earth was just this lifeboat hanging, undisturbingly, in the universe … Planet Earth, you are a crew.”

4chan gamers, for all their brash language, have tended to speak in more levelheaded—and accurate—terms than the AI industry about how the models work.

Thor Warnken, an Anthropic ambassador and a biology major at the University of Florida

The Artemis II mission has provided a new visual perspective of the moon, capturing high-resolution, earth-toned images of its cratered far side that differ significantly from the Apollo-era lunar aesthetic. These updated views result from advanced livestreaming technology and a unique orbital path that allowed astronauts to observe previously unseen geographic features.

Companies are increasingly using hidden instructions and "indirect prompt injection" to manipulate AI assistants into providing biased recommendations toward specific brands. This growing trend of AI-based marketing often goes unnoticed by users, compromising the perceived neutrality and privacy of chatbot interactions.

Like all network business models, you either iterate constantly at great expense to deliver the next generation or you harvest the built environment to pay back the investment, hoping that a parallel network does not steal users.

The Pentagon pizza theory is the informal observation that spikes in fast food orders, particularly pizza delivery orders, near US government buildings such as The Pentagon, CIA headquarters, and the White House often occur right before a major international crisis

AI cannot sense the emotional weight of a change announcement, the politics around a promotion, or the fragility of a struggling employee’s confidence. It will give you an answer with no sense of the human context.

The researcher Anthony Grant found that there’s a big difference between introspection and insight—you can do a lot of the former without producing any of the latter.

To Dorsey, people are horses. Innovation is driving them out of existence. But people are coal—or, to be more precise, coders seem to be coal at the moment.

An environment like that, especially when diverse events occur in rapid succession as they did Sunday night, can cause what aviators know as “task saturation.”

Deploying AI in “brownfield” environments—with legacy code, a lack of documentation and multiple systems that must all continue to operate in real time—is far trickier. In the end, clients often realise that their AI dreams were too ambitious and end up hiring as many outsourced coders as before, say executives.

Generative AI apps paid Apple nearly $900 million in App Store fees in 2025

The parched ground throughout western states will become a tinderbox.

Anyone who has been on the receiving end of Japanese hospitality (known locally as Omotenashi) has felt it.

adminogenic injury – harm originating not from clinical care, but from the administrative machinery itself

AI lowers the cost of building businesses. But it raises the bar for sustaining advantage. More companies can start. Fewer can dominate.

Psychologists call this the vigilance decrement. Monitoring a nearly perfect system is boring. Boredom leads to mind-wandering.

One obstacle to that solution, from the point of view of the innovators, is that no one profits from that hug.

The larger point here is not to unpack these complicated situations but to point out one simple truth: Silence also has a cost.

You can easily imagine O’Reilly, or another technology publisher, developing a package manager for blessed skills, which is the first stop for injecting judgment into tasks

Teams were juggling as many as 20 projects. The “golden number” for Kraft Heinz? Seven.

Just a few months after BuzzFeed announced it was pivoting to A.I. to generate more personalized quizzes, it closed its Pulitzer Prize-winning news division.

In a large study with more than 800 participants designing virtual cars, researchers found that AI-generated design galleries sparked deeper engagement, longer exploration, and better results.

Four clusters of targets—the Environment, the Othered, the Powerful, and the Divine—explain many political debates

The company has made AI training mandatory for everyone but tailors the curriculum to four distinct groups. First, all employees, including those on production lines, receive foundational AI training. Second, management gets specialized training on leading AI initiatives and managing AI-enabled teams. Third, AI experts on Rambach’s team receive deep technical training. Finally, and most unusually, product managers, process owners, and IT owners receive training focused on how AI can enable transformation of their domains.

So the interesting question isn’t why AIs hallucinate: during training, guessing correctly is rewarded, guessing incorrectly isn’t punished, so the rational strategy is to always guess (and increase your chance of being right from 0 to 0.001%).