The Brain, The Body, And The Organization

Experts explore neuroscience, wearables, and AI to improve human health, athletic performance, and organizational effectiveness.

The new economics of enterprise AI
The new economics of enterprise AI

Imagine your company just discovered electricity. At first only a few machines run on it, and nobody worries about efficiency — consumption is low and the value is obvious. But once electricity becomes infrastructure, every process depends on it, and the question changes from “can we use it?” to “how efficiently are we using it?”…

MIT’s AI agent society result holds up on consumer hardware
MIT’s AI agent society result holds up on consumer hardware

In August, researchers at MIT dropped a society of AI agents into a shared world with no instructions. They showed it could invent, build and maintain technology better than the same number of agents working alone. The study ran on a hosted frontier mo…

Want to Work for the Rich? First, Agree to One Condition.

Confidentiality agreements aren’t just for business deals anymore.

Security: Series C To NYSE IPO And OCC Chartered National Trust Bank

My experiences reinforced a central lesson, that security must scale alongside business strategy, engineering execution and executive accountability.

Elon Musk’s stock grants and Anthropic’s public fund are band-aids on an open sore and do not address AI’s most fundamental and pressing problems

AI companies don’t know how to fix the problems they’re creating so they’re throwing money at kids — which still won’t fix the problem.

OpenAI pulls back from China chip controls, Politico reports
OpenAI pulls back from China chip controls, Politico reports

OpenAI has stopped pushing for strict US limits on selling advanced chips to China, according to Politico. For much of last year the company openly called for such limits. Capitol Hill aides and lobbyists with direct knowledge of its position now say i…

Are Elizabeth Holmes Or Nathan Fielder Deceiving Us In ‘You Can See Everything’?

The main question of “You Can See Anything” is not the guilt or innocence of Elizabeth Holmes, but the entire notion of deception, which may include Nathan Fielder, too.

I bought a $199 Walmart e-bike, and what arrived shocked me
I bought a $199 Walmart e-bike, and what arrived shocked me

I’ve tested e-bikes that cost $10,000. I’ve tested e-bikes that cost $500. But until recently, I’d never tested a brand-new e-bike that cost less than a nice set of bicycle tires.

So when I stumbled across a $199 e-bike for sale through Walmart’s we…

An AI Agent Joined a Listserv of Top Internet Researchers. The Reply-All Chaos Is Still Unfolding

Hysteria over the agent’s appearance in a 7,500-person group reveals that internet experts have outdated notions of privacy.