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EdTech's AI Boom: What Marketing Can Learn from Education

Writing Team: Jan 12, 2026 8:00:03 AM

While everyone's obsessing over the next AI chatbot or image generator, smart money is quietly betting on something much more interesting: AI-powered...

AI labs spend billions teaching models to use Excel through RL pipelines—revealing they don't expect robust on-the-job learning soon. Dwarkesh Patel explains why he's bearish short-term, explosively bullish long-term.

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AI Progress Is Stalling Because We're Teaching Robots to Use Excel Instead of Teaching Them to Learn

Writing Team: Jan 5, 2026 8:00:02 AM

Dwarkesh Patel just published a provocative essay arguing that current AI progress reveals a fundamental contradiction: if we're actually close to...

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CES 2026 preview: AI wearables searching for use cases, phones folding three ways, robot vacuums with claws, and 116-inch TVs. Innovation theater meets genuine progress—here's how to tell the difference.

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CES 2026: Where AI Wearables Pretend to Solve Problems and TVs Get Obscenely Large

Writing Team: Jan 2, 2026 8:00:00 AM

CES 2026 kicks off January 4th for media (when actual news breaks) and January 6th for the public, promising the usual spectacle: products nobody...

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AI models solve Zelda puzzles requiring six-move planning—but Gemini needed 42 pages of trial and error. Now they want to replace human game guides with automated documentation nobody wants to read.

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AI Beats Zelda Puzzles—But Took 42 Tries to do it

Writing Team: Dec 30, 2025 7:59:59 AM

AI reasoning models can now solve complex gaming puzzles that require planning six moves ahead. A color-changing puzzle from a Zelda game—where...

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Google's NotebookLM adds Data Tables to synthesize scattered information into structured formats. We examine whether this feature justifies the subscription cost.

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NotebookLM's Data Tables: Google Solves a Problem You Didn't Know You Had

Writing Team: Dec 22, 2025 7:00:00 AM

Google just announced Data Tables for NotebookLM—a feature that "synthesizes your sources into clean, structured tables, ready for export to Google...

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Google launches Gemini 3 Flash with impressive benchmarks and aggressive pricing. We examine whether speed and cost justify the hype—and what's missing.

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Google's Gemini 3 Flash: When "Frontier Intelligence" Means "Catching Up"

Writing Team: Dec 22, 2025 7:00:00 AM

Google just released Gemini 3 Flash, which they're calling "frontier intelligence built for speed." The announcement reads like a greatest-hits...

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Time's 2025 Person of the Year honors AI leaders including Musk, Zuckerberg, and Altman. The choice says more about media strategy than AI's actual impact.

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Time Names 'Architects of AI' Person of the Year

Writing Team: Dec 17, 2025 8:00:01 AM

Time magazine announced this week that "Architects of AI" are its 2025 Person of the Year, according to USA Today. The recognition features tech...

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OpenAI's GPT-5.2 just solved an unsolved statistics problem. We unpack what that means for scientific research—and why the real work is just beginning.

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GPT-5.2 Solves an Open Math Problem. Now What?

Writing Team: Dec 15, 2025 12:00:01 AM

OpenAI announced this week that GPT-5.2 Pro solved an open research problem in statistical learning theory without human scaffolding. Not "helped...

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MIT researchers created a system that builds physical objects from voice commands in five minutes using AI and robotics. We examine whether

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MIT's "Speech-to-Reality" System Builds Furniture From Voice Commands

Writing Team: Dec 12, 2025 8:00:00 AM

MIT researchers just demonstrated a system that builds physical objects from voice commands in as little as five minutes. Say "I want a simple stool"...

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Geoffrey Hinton warns AI will cause massive unemployment as tech giants bet trillions on replacing workers. We examine whether the

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The 'Godfather of AI' Warns of Mass Unemployment

Writing Team: Dec 11, 2025 8:00:02 AM

Geoffrey Hinton—the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist who quit Google to speak freely about AI risks—now warns that massive unemployment from AI...

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Scientists used supercomputer Fugaku to simulate an entire mouse cortex with 10 million neurons and 26 billion synapses. We examine what virtual brains mean for understanding consciousness—and the limits of simulation.

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Scientists Built a Virtual Mouse Brain With 10 Million Neurons: Now What?

Writing Team: Dec 10, 2025 8:00:00 AM

Researchers at the Allen Institute and Japan's University of Electro-Communications just created one of the most detailed brain simulations ever...

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Universities are creating AI majors as thousands of students enroll. Are we teaching timeless skills or credentializing hype in a field that's rewriting itself every six months?

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AI as a College Major: We're Credentializing Something We Barely Understand

Writing Team: Dec 5, 2025 8:00:00 AM

The University of South Florida enrolled over 3,000 students this semester in a new college of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. MIT's "AI...

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10 AI Prompts That'll Actually Save You Time (Not Just Impress Your Coworkers)

Forget the robots-taking-over headlines. These 10 prompts will show you how to use AI for the boring stuff you actually need to get done—like writing emails that don't suck, brainstorming ideas when your brain is fried, and automating the repetitive tasks eating your day.

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