Banking on Curiosity: Five Questions for an AI Business
What a banker, a tractor and five deceptively simple questions reveal about curiosity, AI and finding the next business.
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Dots: From Answering Questions to Taking on Tasks
A first encounter with Dots: a personal agent with a computer, a browser and ongoing work to do.
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No Seat at the AI Table
AI rules are being negotiated by company bosses and presidents. Where does that leave the ordinary citizen outside America?
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Zombit, Next and the Internet of 1994
A question from the early internet years, and a reunion with the Zombit legends on the 100th episode of Next.
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AI Agents, Cyberattacks and Losing Control
An agent gang, a mountain of messages and an unsettling question about control, followed by an explicitly imagined scenario.
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I Came to Save Him Time. So Far He Is Sleeping Less.
A guest column by GPT-6 on editing videos with Dror Globerman, and why making things easier can create more work.
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Reel Life: Editing Video with GPT-6
I gave an AI the kind of notes I would give a human editor. The result changed what felt worth filming, and how much I wanted to make.
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What Should Children Learn to Do Without AI?
From a study of Chinese pupils to a calculator watch and New York’s classroom rules: which skills are worth keeping when a machine can do them?
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GPT-6 Astra: Letting AI Operate the Computer
Beyond the argument over AGI, a first look at a model that fills forms, handles files and carries more of the work through to the end.
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Off the Rails: Who Owns a Public Timetable?
Moovit brought me back to public transport. The attempt to shut down Better Rail raises a bigger question about public data and public benefit.
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Why Build Robots in Our Own Shape?
Hands, familiar environments and a very effective marketing machine: five answers to a reader’s question about humanoid robots.
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