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For several years past, I have set forth diverse iterations of the "Hottest Tech Trends of 1776." In this present annum, I have revis'd the enumeration with the sage advisement of many amongst you, and with a modicum of assistance from the artificer GPT-4o. Thus, for your reading pleasure in honor of our Day of Independence, I present to thee 24 most esteemed technological marvels circa 1776. Continue Reading →

If you've been following the The New York Times Company v. Microsoft Corporation (1:23-cv-11195) case, you may wake up this morning worrying that New York Times lawyers will soon comb through your late‑night ChatGPT confessions. Breathe easy – they almost certainly will not. Continue Reading →

On July 1, the U.S. Senate voted 99-1 to remove a proposed 10-year federal ban on state-level AI regulation from President Trump's comprehensive tax-cut and spending bill. The amendment, introduced by Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn, was adopted during a marathon "vote-a-rama" session. Continue Reading →

The rules of AI training have just changed. By default, Cloudflare will now block AI scrapers across the millions of websites it protects (roughly 24% of all sites on the internet). Any AI company seeking to crawl a Cloudflare-hosted site will have to obtain explicit permission from the content owner. This is the first infrastructure-level defense of its kind. Continue Reading →

We've spent two years teaching everyone about "prompt engineering," which has been great. But crafting clever questions represents perhaps 5% of what makes enterprise AI successful. Now, there's a new term being added to the buzzword bingo lexicon: "context engineering." I want to make fun of it, but I really like it. Context engineering isn't about the evolution of end user behavior, it's a nice way to describe the components you need to get the most out of the current crop of LLMs and Reasoning Engines. Continue Reading →

Are chatbots good for us or bad for us? Are they making us smarter, stupider, better, worse? One thing has become clear: the rise of AI chatbots has led to a new form of digital dependency. Users are forming compulsive relationships with conversational agents. This isn't a fringe concern; support systems are emerging to address this issue. Continue Reading →

Meta scored a decisive victory in federal court this week. A lawsuit filed by thirteen authors – including Sarah Silverman, Richard Kadrey, and Christopher Golden – accusing Meta of copyright infringement was largely dismissed by U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria. Continue Reading →

U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train its AI model, Claude, qualifies as fair use. This decision addresses the lawsuit filed by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson, who alleged that Anthropic infringed their copyrights by using pirated versions of their books for AI training. Continue Reading →

When an AI model fears for its own survival, what does it do? According to Anthropic’s latest research, it blackmails. Continue Reading →

You're running late for dinner, stuck in traffic, and realize you forgot to make a reservation. Instead of frantically switching between OpenTable, Google Maps, your calendar app, and your messaging app, you simply say: "Find me a table for two at the highest rated Italian restaurant in Midtown at 7:30 PM and text Sarah the details." This exists today. Continue Reading →