It's getting harder to tell who (or what) is real...
Progress on improving the realism of AI-generated humans is rapid & increasing. The results are equal measures impressive & deeply worrying. Tavus, an AI video
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OpenAI DevDay 2026: the chatbot is quietly disappearing
OpenAI announced a small mountain of things at DevDay. But I think most of them point in roughly the same direction: AI is moving from something
I am not being paid to say this: Midjourney is absolutely ridiculous
I won't profess to know all the AI image generation tools out there, but my experience of Midjourney over the last couple of weeks
I built an AI Apocalypse Forecaster. You’re welcome.
There is currently a shortage of tools on the internet capable of telling you, with wholly unjustified numerical precision, when artificial intelligence will end human civilisation.
Side hustle #2: AI wine matchmaking (part 1)
A brief post for tonight but thought I'd detail some early travails on another side-hustle / experiment of mine: an AI-powered wine match-
Stop counting tokens and start counting what actually matters
AI pricing is obsessed with tokens. Businesses should be obsessed with something (unfortunately) much harder to figure out: what it actually costs to get a useful
Wait, is AI replacing academia too?
If AI agents can read the literature, generate hypotheses, run the maths and eventually control the robots doing the experiments, what exactly happens to scientific research