Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt
AI investment is surging, with current levels accounting for a substantial share of global economic growth, yet the financial models supporting this boom are shifting rapidly. Firm...
Proof of Care in the Age of AI: Why It Matters for Quality Leaders
A handwritten essay by Jacob Filipp took 10 seconds for an AI to generate, but hours for a human to write. This gap is eroding trust in written communication, making it harder to s...
AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence: The Three-Second Theft
On July 14, 2026, Sharon Brightwell withdrew $15,000 from her bank account after a call she believed was from her daughter, only to later discover the voice was AI-generated. This ...
Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely
Demis Hassabis warns that artificial general intelligence, capable of human-like cognition, is likely just years away, and its impact could surpass even the industrial revolution. ...
Are We Offloading Too Much of Our Thinking to AI?
A man at a San Francisco startup event wears a microphone that records every conversation, then hands the data to an AI called Claude Fable to do his thinking for him. You’re not...
AI Is a Bad Tool for Software Development
AI is a bad tool for software development, and the evidence is piling up. From biased test generation to opaque code creation, the reality is that AI often produces work that looks...
AI Boosts Research Careers but Narrows Scientific Discovery: What This Means for Innovation
AI is accelerating research careers but narrowing the scope of scientific discovery, according to recent findings from IEEE Spectrum. Researchers are publishing more papers, securi...
Samsung Health AI Data Policy Sparks Privacy Concerns
Samsung Health users now face a choice: allow the company to use their private health data to train AI models or lose access to their information forever. The new "Consent to the U...
Migrating a Production AI Agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x Faster, 27% Cheaper
Ploy’s AI agent now runs on GPT-5.6 Sol, after months of testing where no model matched Claude Opus’s performance. The switch came after GPT-5.6 Sol completed tasks 2.2x faster...
Mesh LLM: Distributed AI Computing on iroh
You send prompts to a black box, pay a growing bill, and hope the model doesn’t change. That’s the reality for teams relying on third-party AI services, no control over hardwar...
