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Software ate the world. Uber and Airbnb didn’t sell software - they disrupted and redefined markets. But what kind of disruption are we talking about ?
OpenAI’s Deep Research is built for me, and I can’t use it. It’s another amazing demo, until it breaks. But it breaks in really interesting ways.
Every week there’s a better AI model that gives better answers. But a lot of questions don’t have better answers, only ‘right’ answers, and these models can’t do that. So what does ‘better’ mean, how do we manage these things, and should we change what we expect from computers?
A quarter century after 'don't be evil', a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in search. But no-one knows what happens next, and whether this ruling will change anything. Will Apple build a search engine? Will ChatGPT change search? Does it matter?
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Our golden age lies in our future, not our past.
A conversation about craft, code, and creative freedom with indie game artisan Neal Agarwal, creator of Neal.fun.
Kenyan teachers and edtech companies say AI tools help save time, but without widespread internet connectivity, the impact is uneven.
Trumpism will deindustrialize America. That's a hard pill for some thinkers to swallow.
New data reveals the hidden network of African workers powering AI, as they push for transparency from the global companies that employ them indirectly.
