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3 minute read The new guy at Berkshire is doing something Buffett never would For sixty years Warren Buffett ran Berkshire Hathaway like a man who broke out into a rash when anything tech dropped. Fast forward to his retirement on the last day of 2025 and he handed the keys to Greg Abel. What … Read more
2 minute read The buzzword that paid your salary is now a dirty word There was a stretch where burning AI tokens like there was no tomorrow was basically the job. It even got a name, “tokenmaxxing.” IT was pretty much a push to torch as many tokens as humanly possible. Climb that leaderboard, look … Read more
3 minute read So that little six-digit code you punch in like a good citizen every time you log into your bank? Yeah, somebody just used AI to walk right past it. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group dropped this news on May 11 and didn’t bury it. They called it a “mass exploitation event,” meaning the … Read more
2 minute read Somewhere between ChatGPT writing your emails and AI generating your coworker’s PowerPoint slides, something quietly broke in the global chip supply chain. The price of everything in your home is going up because of it, and if you want to know what’s already gone up, why it’s happening, and whether there’s any … Read more
2 minute read Practical AI · Workflow OpenClaw gets written off as “AI chat with tools” a lot. That’s selling it short. The interesting stuff happens when you connect it to your actual environment, your recurring headaches, the little frictions you’ve learned to live with, and start knocking them down. Here are four use cases … Read more
2 minute read We love to think that algorithms and AI are infallible and all-knowing. The reality in 2026 is that they still aren’t. These days sometimes AI is a confident guesser with bad days and zero shame. When it screws up, sometimes it doesn’t apologize, or it apologizes profusely before doing it again. An … Read more
2 minute read Ever feel like Big Tech is hovering over your shoulder? Every time you prompt ChatGPT or Claude, you’re basically sending a digital confession to a corporate confessional. If that gives you the “creeping dread,” it’s time to look into running your AI locally. Running AI on your own computer means you stop … Read more
2 minute read Every day, millions of people Google their symptoms and take whatever pops up as “it must be right”. Totally normal human behavior and a horribly bad idea.. A Guardian investigation earlier this year caught Google’s AI Overviews, those convenient little AI answer boxes perched a the top of your search results, handing … Read more
2 minute read If you’ve spent any time on the internet lately, you’ve probably seen the latest “black mirror” trend that feels like a rejected sci-fi script. People are now using artificial intelligence to “talk” to their dead relatives. This isn’t just a niche hobby for basement-dwelling tech geeks anymore. Startups like HereAfter AI and … Read more
3 minute read Enjoying your digital privacy? Ya know, that warm, fuzzy feeling that your bank details and your embarrassing search history are safe? Well, in about 6 to 12 months, that feeling might become as obsolete as a floppy disk. The Death of the Chatbot: From Talk to Action Forget the hype about “sentient … Read more