Tag: AI

LinkedIn Is the Fakest Platform of Them All Summary Prospect magazine laments that LinkedIn’s enthusiastic roll-out of AI features has made the platform feel more artificial and less useful. Replacements…

AI ‘Business Agents’ Will Kill SaaS by 2030, Says Microsoft Summary Microsoft corporate vice president Charles Lamanna argues that AI “business agents” — systems combining generative AI interfaces, goal-oriented workflows…

Gamblers Now Bet on AI Models Like Racehorses Summary Trading in prediction markets focused on artificial intelligence has surged, with platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket seeing roughly $20 million…

China sends an AI to its space station, where Taikonauts use it to prep for spacewalk Summary Chinese state media reports that an open-source, homegrown AI model — referred to…

Google’s ‘AI Overview’ Pointed Him to a Customer Service Number. It Was a Scam Summary A Washington Post report, republished on Slashdot, describes how a man searching for a cruise-line…

Gamblers Now Bet on AI Models Like Racehorses Summary Trading on AI prediction markets has surged: roughly $20 million traded in the month reported across platforms such as Kalshi and…

LinkedIn Is the Fakest Platform of Them All Summary A piece highlighted on Slashdot summarises an article in Prospect magazine arguing that LinkedIn has become increasingly inauthentic as it layers…

AI ‘Business Agents’ Will Kill SaaS by 2030, Says Microsoft Summary Microsoft corporate vice president Charles Lamanna predicts that within roughly five years AI “business agents” will largely replace the…

WIRED Roundup: Why GPT-5 Flopped Summary This article is a write-up of an episode of WIRED’s Uncanny Valley podcast (hosted by Zoë Schiffer with Jake Lahut) that runs through five…

Tech in the Classroom: A History of Hype and Hysteria Summary This Wired photo-essay traces five decades of technological scares in schools, from hand-held calculators and classroom computers to interactive…