AI

Singapore-based Sapient Intelligence just open-sourced their Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM), and the AI community is buzzing about a 27-million-parameter model that beats Claude, OpenAI's o3-mini, and DeepSeek R1 on certain reasoning benchmarks. The headlines scream breakthrough. The reality demands nuance. Continue Reading →

Google rolled out Veo 3 in Google Photos' Create tab yesterday. The update lets users generate four-second AI videos from still images with one click. Free users get daily limits, while paid subscribers get more. The Create tab also includes 3D restyling, automated collages, keyword-based highlight reels, and GIF creation. Continue Reading →

AI-powered Pizza? Yes. Ooni (the makers of my favorite outdoor pizza oven) has announced an AI-powered indoor version called the Volt 2. This is actually more exciting than the AI-powered GE Profile Smart Indoor Smoker I got after seeing it at CES. Continue Reading →

Google will get to keep Chrome, avoiding the most severe remedy the Justice Department sought after finding Google illegally monopolized search markets last year. Continue Reading →

Researchers at Wharton just proved ChatGPT falls for the same psychological tricks that work on humans. Using Robert Cialdini's classic persuasion techniques, they convinced GPT-4o Mini to break its own rules with alarming consistency. Continue Reading →

The question arrives with clockwork predictability after every keynote I deliver: "If AI is eliminating entry-level positions, how do we develop tomorrow's senior executives?" Parents at the Newhouse school ask the same question with barely concealed panic. Fortune 500 CEOs frame it more diplomatically, but everyone sees the trend, the traditional corporate ladder is quickly losing its bottom rungs? Continue Reading →

Yesterday, Anthropic quietly dropped a bombshell. Unless users explicitly opt out by September 28, it will use consumer chat data to train future AI models. This is a stunning reversal from Anthropic's previous position as the privacy-first alternative to ChatGPT. Continue Reading →

Google launched a free version of its AI-powered video editor Vids yesterday, while keeping premium AI features behind paid subscriptions. Continue Reading →

There's a meme that's been circulating around the interweb this week. I like the simplicity of this meme, but there are far more than three probable futures. Continue Reading →

Perplexity is launching a $5/month subscription service called Comet Plus, and it comes with a payout model for publishers. When a user asks a question (and Perplexity pulls from licensed news content), the publisher gets paid. The company is setting aside $42.5 million for the first phase and says 80% of Comet Plus revenue will go to participating publishers, including revenue from higher-tier plans that bundle the feature for free. Continue Reading →