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Agentic inference will be different from current inference and will change the computational infrastructure because speed will not matter when humans are not involved (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 11, 2026

Ben Thompson / Strategy: Agentic inference will be different from current inference and will change the computational infrastructure because speed…

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Q&A with Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon on 2026 being the ‘year of the agents,’ the end of the smartphone-centric world, 6G turning humans into ‘walking cameras,’ and more (Fortune)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 11, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: How to build a business that endures through all times | Eric Ries, author of Lean…

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Even if AI could take over every job, humans would invent new jobs themselves, because we value human effort and connection, not just the outcome (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 6, 2026

Ben Thompson / Strategy: Even if AI could take over every job, humans would invent new jobs themselves, because we…

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A look at the humans employed to save the robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app to pay between $20 and $24 to manually close robo-taxis doors and between $60 and $80 to tow its cars (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 25, 2025

Lisa Bonos / Washington Post: A look at the humans employed to save the robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app…

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A look at various quirks of AI-generated prose, mostly influenced by "overfitting" in AI models, as humans increasingly imitate AI language in writing and speaking (Sam Kriss/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 6, 2025

Sam Kriss / New York Times: A look at various quirks of AI-generated prose, primarily influenced by the “overlearning” of…

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Lumia, which uses AI to analyze interactions between autonomous agents and humans, has raised an $18 million seed led by Team8 (Chris Metinko/Axios)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 4, 2025

Chris Metinko / Axios: Lumia, which uses AI to analyze interactions between autonomous agents and humans, has raised $18 million…

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Anthropic claims Opus 4.5 outperformed all humans in a take-home exam it gives to potential performance engineering candidates, within a prescribed two-hour limit (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 24, 2025

Michael Nuñez / BusinessBeat: Anthropic claims that Opus 4.5 outperformed all humans in a take-home exam it offers to potential…

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Former xAI researcher Eric Zelikman raises $1 billion at a $5 billion valuation for Humans&, which aims to train AI that can better collaborate with humans (Anna Tong/Forbes)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 31, 2025

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Crackdown on Character.AI’s Teen Chatbots + Elon Musk’s Wikipedia Groks + 48 Hours Without AI The…

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The co-founder of Irobot, Rodney Brooks, explains why humanoid robots do not learn dexterity at the level of humans from current methods, how to make them sure for humans, and more (Rodney Brooks)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 28, 2025

Featured podcasts Big Technology Podcast: The $ 100 billion marriage from Openai and Nvidia, the sloppy vibrations of Meta, Tiktok…

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While the Pentagon rushes to deploy AI in its weapons systems, some experts fear that humans will be able to keep the pace of the aggressive AI tendency to degenerate in crisis (Michael Hirsh / Politico)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 4, 2025

Featured podcasts Super cat: The art of leaving A podcast mainly on technology. TO-TO you weekly by Angela du, Sally…

Indonesia says tech companies have deleted 4.7 million children’s accounts since government ban – The Diplomat

ASEAN and Trump’s Section 301 Tariffs – The Diplomat

Pakistan wants the world to see it as a peacemaker. I want him to find my father. – The diplomat

Border towns light up at night as North Korea goes solar – Radio Free Asia

What’s next? – The diplomat

Medicare will soon cover obesity medications, but many seniors may not know it

‘Perfect storm’ portends much smaller U.S. auto market by 2040

Summer box office could generate first $10 billion since pandemic

How Kohl’s lost its way and is trying to become relevant again

Walmart heir Lukas Walton buys minority stake in Chicago Bulls

Even Fox News Can’t Hide Trump’s Great Failing for Fairness in America

Donald Trump now spends his days counting trees in the park

Failure of Trump’s big fair rally in US state really upsets him

Evangelical Christians humiliated as Trump falls asleep on them

President Mike Johnson admits he’s running a protection racket for Trump

AI is forcing consulting firms to move from hourly billing to fixed or results-based pricing, a transition that is proving slow and difficult for the industry (Mark Maurer/Wall Street Journal)

DeepSeek details DSpark, a speculative decoding framework for its V4 models, saying it speeds up AI inference by up to 85% and has been tested on Gemma and Qwen (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

Jefferies: Memory prices are expected to rise 40-50% in the third quarter of 2026 and 30-40% in the fourth quarter as Chinese memory makers are unlikely to provide significant relief in the near term (Hassan Mujtaba/Wccftech)

Austria is pushing the EU to consider hosting Anthropic within its borders, highlighting EU efforts to strengthen the bloc’s independence from US and Chinese technology (Marton Eder/Bloomberg)

Kunlunxin Technology, Baidu’s chip unit, plans an IPO in Hong Kong with a target valuation of $50 billion, asking investors to buy chips worth 3 to 7 times their IPO investment (Qianer Liu/The Information)

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Agentic inference will be different from current inference and will change the computational infrastructure because speed will not matter when humans are not involved (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Q&A with Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon on 2026 being the ‘year of the agents,’ the end of the smartphone-centric world, 6G turning humans into ‘walking cameras,’ and more (Fortune)

Even if AI could take over every job, humans would invent new jobs themselves, because we value human effort and connection, not just the outcome (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

A look at the humans employed to save the robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app to pay between $20 and $24 to manually close robo-taxis doors and between $60 and $80 to tow its cars (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)

A look at various quirks of AI-generated prose, mostly influenced by "overfitting" in AI models, as humans increasingly imitate AI language in writing and speaking (Sam Kriss/New York Times)

Lumia, which uses AI to analyze interactions between autonomous agents and humans, has raised an $18 million seed led by Team8 (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Anthropic claims Opus 4.5 outperformed all humans in a take-home exam it gives to potential performance engineering candidates, within a prescribed two-hour limit (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Former xAI researcher Eric Zelikman raises $1 billion at a $5 billion valuation for Humans&, which aims to train AI that can better collaborate with humans (Anna Tong/Forbes)

The co-founder of Irobot, Rodney Brooks, explains why humanoid robots do not learn dexterity at the level of humans from current methods, how to make them sure for humans, and more (Rodney Brooks)

While the Pentagon rushes to deploy AI in its weapons systems, some experts fear that humans will be able to keep the pace of the aggressive AI tendency to degenerate in crisis (Michael Hirsh / Politico)