AI influencer awards season is upon us
AI influencer awards season is upon us

First came the AI beauty pageant. Then the AI music contests. Now, there is an award for AI Personality of the Year – perhaps the inevitable next step for the AI influencer economy as it fights for legitimacy amid an onslaught of AI slop and grifters and transforms from quirky novelty into a serious and […]

Do you want to build a robot snowman?

On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, we recapped CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote and debated what it means for Nvidia’s future.

Cursor admits its new coding model was built on top of Moonshot AI’s Kimi

Building on top of a Chinese model feels particularly fraught right now.

2 Reasons I Turned Off My OpenClaw, My Personal AI Assistant

this article explains the reasons that Paul Baier stopped using OpenClaw. These are the rawness of the software and lack of security

Crimson Desert dev apologizes for use of AI art
Crimson Desert dev apologizes for use of AI art

Reviews of Crimson Desert have been mixed, but the bigger issue for the game has been the discovery of what appeared to be AI-generated assets in the final release. Now the developer has acknowledged that AI art was indeed used during the game’s creation, but says that it was intended to be replaced before release. […]

Elon Musk unveils chip manufacturing plans for SpaceX and Tesla

Elon Musk recently outlined ambitious plans for a chip-building collaboration Tesla and SpaceX — but he has a history of overpromising.

Musk says he’s building a Terafab chip plant in Austin, Texas
Musk says he’s building a Terafab chip plant in Austin, Texas

Elon Musk announced plans to build a Terafab plant in Austin, Texas, that will be jointly run by Tesla and SpaceX. The goal is to eventually build chips at scale for robotics, artificial intelligence, and space-based data centers for Musk’s various companies. Musk has expressed concern, as have other executives, about the chip industry’s ability […]

The Round of 64: AI-ok 

With the first two days of play completed, I am in better shape in my pool than I usually am. I asked Chat GPT to create two brackets: one to predict the actual winner, and one to win my pool. So far, both are doing OK. I am tied for fifth out of sixty…

An exclusive tour of Amazon’s Trainium lab, the chip that’s won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple 

Shortly after Amazon announced its $50 billion investment in OpenAI, AWS invited me on a private tour of the chip lab at the heart of the deal.

AI was everywhere at gaming’s big developer conference — except the games
AI was everywhere at gaming’s big developer conference — except the games

AI was everywhere at the GDC Festival of Gaming this year. Vendors at the event pitched generative AI tools for things like making AI-driven NPCs and even entire games from a chat box. On the show floor, I spent 10 minutes playing a demo of a pixel-art fantasy world generated by Tencent’s AI tools. In […]