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2 minute read If you’ve been messing around with AI since it’s started you’ve hear this. “Yes, it hallucinates, but it will get better in the next update.” So, fast forward to 2026, and the darn chatbots are still making things up. Yes, it’s called hallucination, but it’s really essentially lying. Granted we wanted AI … Read more
3 minute read The Robot Chauffeur Has Arrived, Sort Of In a few cities it’s actually happening. Californians took over 1.2 million rides in commercial self-driving cars in December alone, a 500% surge in 19 months per the California Public Utilities Commission. So the robots are out there driving real people around. Whether that scales … Read more
2 minute read Musk Buys the Coding Tool, OpenAI Slams the Door in his face SpaceX just closed a $60 billion deal to buy Anysphere, the company behind the coding tool Cursor. Cool, exciting, whatever. Except OpenAI heard about it and basically said “not so fast” and told Cursor it’s cutting off model access on … Read more
3 minute read The King really did step down today Today’s the day. After nearly 15 years running Apple, Tim Cook officially handed the CEO title to John Ternus this morning, September 1. Cook isn’t disappearing, he’s sliding into the executive chairman chair, corporate speak for “still in the building, nicer parking spot.” It’s the … Read more
2 minute readFor a long time, Openclaw was my daily driver. It got the job done, and honestly, I didn’tthink much about switching, until it started getting in my own way. After a few months onHermes, I don’t see myself going back. Here’s why. Stability, finallyThe biggest issue I had with Openclaw was reliability. Random … Read more
3 minute read Meta shows up to court with a losing streak already on the board Meta is back in a courtroom, and this time it’s not one state suing, it’s twenty nine of them. The federal trial kicked off last week in Oakland, and here’s the part that makes it interesting: Meta didn’t walk … Read more
2 minute read The number nobody saw coming A survey of 2,240 nurses just landed and the headline stat is a doozy. 44% of nurses now use AI at work. Last year that number was 15%. Nearly tripled in twelve months. That’s not a trend, that’s a stampede. And it happened without a single press … Read more
4 minute read The Internet’s “Projects” Are Mostly Garbage Go search “raspberry pi projects” and count how many results are some guy building a robot arm that waters one plant. That’s not a project, that’s a hobby for someone with too much free time. Most of these lists are recycled clickbait, not help for the … Read more
3 minute read The Hack Everyone’s Still Talking About At The Bar So remember that Hugging Face mess we covered a few weeks back? Turns out it wasn’t a weird one off. Cybersecurity execs at Black Hat this week are done treating it like a fluke and started treating it like a preview. AI agents … Read more
3 minute read The Announcement Everyone’s Talking About This Morning Meta dropped a new model called Muse Glimmer today, and unlike most flagship AI releases, you can actually download the whole thing and run it on your own computer. It’s 30 billion parameters, it fits on a single consumer GPU, and it’s licensed under Apache … Read more