Remember when deepfake detection was supposed to save us from AI-generated misinformation? Yeah, that lasted about six months. Every time someone builds a better detector, someone else builds a better deepfake that beats it. We’re in an arms race we can’t win. I tested five commercial deepfake detection tools on the …

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Texas grid operators sent a memo to AI companies in August: stop building data centers or we can’t guarantee power for everyone else. This isn’t theoretical anymore. AI is breaking electrical grids. A single NVIDIA H100 GPU cluster—the kind used to train large language models—draws 10.2 kilowatts. Continuously. Scale …

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Apple Vision Pro costs $3,500. I borrowed one for a week. By day three, I had a headache that lasted 18 hours. Spatial computing is real. It’s also exhausting. The tech is genuinely impressive. Pass-through video quality is surreal—better than Meta’s Quest 3, sharper than any VR headset I’ve tried. Hand tracking mostly …

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Google announced they achieved “below-threshold” error correction in their quantum computer. Translation: they can now fix errors faster than they accumulate. This is huge. Also, we’re still decades from useful quantum computers. The error problem has haunted quantum computing since day one. Qubits are fragile. They …

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Amazon has custom AI chips. Google has TPUs. Meta announced their own silicon. Even Salesforce is reportedly exploring custom chips. Everyone’s trying to escape NVIDIA’s pricing. Most won’t succeed. Custom AI chips sound great on paper: optimized for your specific workload, no NVIDIA markup, competitive advantage. …

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The EU AI Act officially entered enforcement today. Companies have six months to comply. I spent the last week talking to legal teams, and the consensus is: nobody has any idea what compliance actually looks like. The law is 459 pages. The guidance documents are longer. Here’s what’s clear: AI systems are categorized …

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MIT researchers fed an AI model data on 7,000 molecular compounds. Ninety days later, it identified a new class of antibiotics effective against drug-resistant bacteria. In mice, it worked. Human trials? Not happening anytime soon. This is the AI drug discovery paradox: the technology moves faster than the regulatory …

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Took a photo of a whiteboard. Terrible lighting, half the text cut off, my thumb covering the corner. Uploaded it to Google’s Gemini with the prompt: “Build this.” Two minutes later, I had functioning React code implementing exactly what the whiteboard sketch showed. This is multimodal AI—models that understand images, …

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I asked OpenAI’s new o1 model to solve a logic puzzle. It thought for 34 seconds before responding. Thirty-four seconds of just… waiting. Watching a loading spinner while an AI “thinks.” Then it gave me a perfect answer, complete with step-by-step reasoning that actually made sense. This is the new frontier: AI that …

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We hired an AI agent last month. Not a person—an actual autonomous AI. It handles scheduling, email triage, and meeting prep. Company called it “Emma.” I call it a productivity nightmare wrapped in good intentions. First week was fine. Emma scheduled my meetings, sent polite decline emails, even summarized Slack …

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