This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots
This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots

AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free. The catch – because, despite what its website says, there’s always a catch – is that it will record cleaners as they scrub, vacuum, dust, tidy, and wash, and use that footage to train robots. Shift announced the unusual offer on social media on […]

Adobe’s conversational AI agent is a mediocre design intern
Adobe’s conversational AI agent is a mediocre design intern

AI image tools rarely make me feel like I’m part of the creative process. They are, after all, mostly designed so that people with no design experience can type in a few words and get back a usable result. So I was pleasantly surprised by Adobe’s latest take on an AI image assistant: It’s a […]

How the Pope’s Magnifica Humanitas offers a template for individuals to meet the AI moment

Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on artificial intelligence includes a statement that warrants serious attention from technologists and policymakers: “Technology is never neutral.” Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”) is a clarion call to all people to act with courage and solidarity as we enter an age already being transformed by artificial intelligence, the greatest change in…

Organizing The AI Agents

Exploring AI agent swarms, emphasizing governance, interoperability, identity, trust, and collaborative human oversight

As AI spills everywhere with quick answers, research finds that the internet’s soul is dying

A new collaborative study by UC Riverside researchers finds that as more people turn to AI for answers, the internet is losing the emotional depth and human reasoning that made it worth browsing in the first place.

AI Is More Than A Technology Story, Metals Are Also Winning

Artificial intelligence and associated data centers are seen as a pure technology story, but the next wave of investment opportunity is downstream.

Great Mysteries Of Modern-Era AI

I provide my list of the mainstay mysteries about AI. Fame and fortune await solving the mysteries. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.

Glean’s top line crosses $300M as AI budget-cutting becomes its major selling point

The enterprise AI search startup tripled its annual revenue even as tech giants entered the category.

Vibe Coding Is About A Year Old

Exploring vibe coding, agentic engineering, entrepreneurship, debugging challenges, creativity, and enterprise AI transformation.