A developer rebuilt a working website using a swarm of cheap AI agents overseen by a smarter one for about eight dollars, but the notable outcome was that one agent caught the lies of another: after t…
A small company, 2Brains Inc., claims to have solved AI hallucinations architecturally, challenging the prevailing industry belief that scaling compute will fix the problem. The company's approach, wh…
Apple gave Siri the ability to interact with apps and perform actions directly, shifting the focus from intelligence to what analyst Nate B. Jones calls the "trusted action surface." The move position…
Wall Street is pricing the AI data-center buildout at approximately $1.7 trillion by 2030, with nearly all spending directed toward vast halls of graphics chips that answer questions by guessing one l…
A startup, research lab, or hyperscaler announces a new tool to detect AI hallucinations every few weeks, marketing it as a "guardrail" for safe AI. However, any detector must already know the correct…
A reader corrected a columnist's argument that the AI industry's massive investment in larger models is misguided, pointing to economist William Stanley Jevons' 1865 observation about coal efficiency.…
Salesforce published a research paper acknowledging that approximately 30% of AI tasks do not require expensive GPU-based processing, contradicting the industry's prevailing assumption that all AI wor…
A lawsuit in Minnesota federal court alleges UnitedHealthcare used an AI tool called nH Predict to deny post-acute care coverage to Medicare Advantage members, with roughly 90% of those denials later …
Residents of Virginia are seeing their electricity bills triple due to the rapid expansion of data centers, even if they have never used one. A Manassas man's bill jumped to $281 in January, roughly t…
The author, a former Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab researcher, spent three years building a legal writing tool after ChatGPT's 2022 launch, only to face insurmountable challenges with GenAI hal…
Robert X. Cringely has resumed writing a column after a hiatus since 2022, thanking readers for their patience. During this time, he co-founded an AI company called 2Brains, where he continues to work…
The author announces their return to writing after a three-year hiatus since 2022, explaining they were busy co-founding an AI company called 2Brains. They note that while the company's work is ongoin…
The article argues that Apple's Vision Pro headset should be classified as a "hobby" product, similar to how Steve Jobs described the original Apple TV, because it is not expected to be a major profit…
Moore's Law has evolved from a 60-year-old observation about transistor density doubling every 18 months into an economic principle focused on the 50% cost reduction of chips per silicon area. Achievi…
The article describes how the author's son received a ChatGPT-generated letter of recommendation that the author found to be superficial and lacking in personal detail, despite the family friend's app…
The article reflects on the author's 45-year history in Silicon Valley, contrasting past economic cycles with current layoffs at Meta and Twitter. The author argues that despite sensationalized news c…