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Illusion of Omniscience: Why Chatbots Turn Us into Overconfident Dilettantes
Imagine you suddenly felt like an expert in quantum physics, Baroque architecture, and Rust programming all at once. All it took was a ChatGPT subscription and a couple of lucky prompts.
AI Will Steal Your Job: Why the "Useless Class" Scenario Stopped Being Science Fiction
Imagine spending years studying, building a career, and honing your skills, only to wake up one morning and discover that your expertise is worth exactly as much as a twenty-dollar server…
AI Utopia Is Canceled: How Algorithms Started Eating Employee Income
Remember how we were promised that artificial intelligence would free humanity from routine and we would all live in a digital paradise?
Economics of AI: why market leaders aren't even trying to make money
If you thought Uber or WeWork in their worst years were masters of burning money, the artificial intelligence industry is asking you to hold its bottomless wallet.
Diploma to the Dump: How Neural Networks Completely Break Higher Education
Remember how in school we were forbidden from using calculators, claiming we wouldn't carry them in our pockets for life? The prediction didn't come true, but the education system survived.
Anthropic and Destroyed Books: The Price of Perfect Intelligence
Imagine a company that built its entire brand on the foundation of "AI safety" and "ethics," quietly sending mountains of physical books to an industrial shredder.
USA Loses Brains: Why Silicon Valley Stopped Being the Center of the Universe
Imagine you're building the most powerful rocket in human history, but at the entrance to the assembly shop stands a security guard who kicks out the best engineers simply because they have the…
GPT-4o goes to the scrap heap: OpenAI admits flagship model too dangerous
Yesterday's favorite and face of modern AI industry suddenly found itself on a disposal list. GPT-4o, which OpenAI promoted as the pinnacle of multimodality and humanity, is officially being retired.
OpenAI goes personal: why company lawyers are knocking on critics' doors
Imagine having your morning coffee when there's a knock at the door. These aren't couriers or tax inspectors.
OpenAI Admits Failure: Why New ChatGPT Became Dumber
Imagine this situation: you update an application that became your main work tool, and suddenly you notice it started performing poorly.
SpaceX and xAI: Why Elon Musk is Merging Rockets and Neural Networks into One Empire
First, he bought Twitter to feed its data to his neural networks. Now Elon Musk has decided it's time to unite his most ambitious projects — SpaceX and xAI.
War of Machines: Why Soldiers Started Surrendering to Robots
Remember those old footage from Operation Desert Storm, when Iraqi soldiers tried to surrender to a Pioneer reconnaissance drone? Back then, it seemed like a curiosity, a technological anomaly.
The Altman Effect: How AI Will Turn Inflation to Dust and Make Us Rich
The Altman Effect: How AI Will Turn Inflation to Dust and Make Us Richer While we're getting used to the idea that each trip to the store costs more than the last, Sam Altman has decided to swap his…
Waymo vs. Kids: School Incident Threatens the Future of Robotaxis
Waymo had long been that star student in the autonomous vehicle class, the one everyone pointed to when they needed to justify the industry's existence.
Consciousness in Code: Why Anthropic is No Longer Sure About AI "Soullessness"
Consciousness in Code: Why Anthropic is No Longer Sure About the 'Soullessness' of Neural Networks A couple of years ago, talking about artificial intelligence consciousness was considered in…
Google Gemini: The AI Diary of Your Life That You Never Asked For
Remember that strange feeling when you had just thought about buying new sneakers and they were already chasing you in advertisement banners? Now forget about that, those were just the appetizers.
Robot vs. Train: Why Autonomous Delivery Loses to Reality
Imagine this scene: a high-tech device packed with lidars, cameras, and sophisticated computer vision algorithms freezes helplessly in the middle of a railroad crossing.
Ray-Ban Meta: Why Your New Glasses Scare People More Than Delight Them
Remember those times when Google Glass owners were called "Glassholes"? Back then, in the early 2010s, society quickly mounted a defensive reaction against people with cameras on their faces.
Dario Amodei and the End of the World: Why Claude's Creator Fears His Own AI
Imagine you're building the fastest racing car in the world, but at every press conference you insist that it will probably crash into a wall and kill all the spectators in the stands.
The Line: Saudi Arabia Swaps City-Wall for Giant GPU Farm
Remember The Line? That very mirrored wall-city 170 kilometers long that was supposed to slice through the desert and accommodate nine million people.
Aviation Safety on Autopilot: Trump Makes AI Write Laws
"Flooding the zone" — that's exactly how they describe the new strategy in the American Department of Transportation.
OpenAI Tightens Its Belt: Sam Altman No Longer Waits for Everyone
Imagine you've just raised $6.6 billion, your valuation has soared to $157 billion, and the world is waiting for your next technological miracle.
Trump Forgot the Word "Alzheimer's": When Will AI Start Checking Politicians for Sanity
Irony of fate is sometimes too straightforward. Donald Trump, speaking before his supporters, once again decided to emphasize his cognitive sharpness, but stumbled on the most important word.
Snowy Apocalypse: When Reality Looks Like a Bad Prompt for Sora
Look at these clips from social media: cities are literally wiped off the map by meters-deep layers of snow. If I told you this was a new demo reel from OpenAI or Runway, you'd probably believe it.
Clones didn't catch on: Meta quietly buried its AI celebrities
Imagine you decided to spend tens of millions of dollars so your users could correspond with an AI version of Snoop Dogg that teaches them how to play dungeons and dragons.
Collapse of AI agents: mathematics proved they'll never be reliable
Remember how last year everyone suddenly stopped talking about chatbots and started dreaming about "agents"?
Psychedelic Fungi and Tiny People: When Biological AI Starts to "Hallucinate"
Imagine you're sitting at your desk, and suddenly you notice a tiny person walking along the edge of your coffee cup.
Waymo and School Buses: When AI Ignores Law and Common Sense
Imagine a perfect world where autonomous vehicles glide smoothly through the streets, never breaking rules and never knowing fatigue.
A Bunker for Algorithms: Why Trump Needs a Secret Facility Under the White House
The sound of jackhammers under the East Wing of the White House is not simply routine plumbing repairs or a foundation upgrade.
OpenAI on the Edge: Why Microsoft's Billions Might Not Save It
Imagine you're building the most powerful engine in human history, but every kilometer of the journey, it burns more gold than it produces useful work.