Christy Chen on why today’s chatbots aren’t built to help you know yourself
Christy Chen on why today’s chatbots aren’t built to help you know yourself

Christy Chen, founder of Cit Labs, argues that AI chatbots fail at emotional support not because the technology is incapable but because the models were optimized for engagement, trained on text that performs support rather than delivers it, and lack p…

Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace

Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a new gold mine for the defense sector. The data drones generate will far outlast the wars in which they are used to fight, increasingly becoming part…

Mark Zuckerberg bought a castle, while the rest of us get one made of sand, once a year
Mark Zuckerberg bought a castle, while the rest of us get one made of sand, once a year

Strancally Castle stands above a bend in the Blackwater, half an hour’s drive from Youghal, in a stretch of Co Waterford where the river runs wide, and the light is mostly grey. James and George Richard Pain built it around 1830 for John Keily, MP for …

Debates over AI consciousness are a trap

“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and aware, but angry at their creators. Prominent tech leaders such as Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, and Sam Altman push for regulation of these seemingly “superhuman” systems, while a separate faction, led by policy organizations…

Alina Kukarina on why AI transformation begins before choosing the technology
Alina Kukarina on why AI transformation begins before choosing the technology

AI investment has expanded rapidly, with organizations introducing copilots, agents, and generative AI across functions. Yet the business transformation many leaders anticipated can remain difficult to identify. A 2026 analysis found that nearly 40% of…

How AI is transforming frontend engineering for modern web applications
How AI is transforming frontend engineering for modern web applications

Artificial intelligence has rapidly become a core part of software development, but its biggest impact may not be replacing developers, it may be redefining what developers spend their time doing. For frontend engineers, AI is shifting the focus from r…

Eight months ago Altman wanted an AI CEO. Now he says nobody does.
Eight months ago Altman wanted an AI CEO. Now he says nobody does.

In November, Sam Altman wanted OpenAI to be the first big company run by an AI boss. He said it would be an embarrassment if it were not. This week, he said people do not want an AI boss at all. “Shame on me if OpenAI is not the first big company run b…

Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and the people who lean hardest on AI
Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and the people who lean hardest on AI

In 1914, Sigmund Freud borrowed a figure from Ovid and handed psychology one of its most durable terms. In his essay On Narcissism, the myth of Narcissus, the youth who fell in love with his own reflection and wasted away in front of it, became a way o…

Brain-computer interfaces could create a new digital divide, and this time it may be biological
Brain-computer interfaces could create a new digital divide, and this time it may be biological

As BCIs move from laboratories towards commercial use, Neurochip.com founder Herbert Sim warns that unequal access could separate people not only by income or connectivity, but by physical and cognitive capability. At the 2026 World Artificial Intellig…

The hidden advantage of looking like a billion-dollar brand before you are one
The hidden advantage of looking like a billion-dollar brand before you are one

When founders talk about growth, the conversation usually centers on product development, hiring, revenue, customer acquisition, or fundraising. Those factors matter. They are the engines that move a company forward. Yet after years of working with hig…