Reality is bending. A manifesto on brain-computer interfaces. Carve out some time to read this 3-part article. “The future, which used to arrive in decades, now arrives by the month.” A crisp manifesto on the “bandwidth problem” between humans and […]
AI beats junior accountants. “We find that on medium-length, well-defined accounting tasks, frontier AI models are now faster and more accurate than junior accountants, even the best one in our study.” This came from hiring 12 CPAs to do simplified […]
Leading the agentic AI transformation. This is a keynote by Amandeep Khurana (AWS at the time, now at Anthropic) on how AI is moving toward more autonomous models and what that means for organizations. Most valuable is that he talks […]
Voice carries more than words. A startup claims heir model can do a lot more with recorded audio than just transcribe it. Including: “Disease-state presence and severity across neurological, cardiometabolic, respiratory, behavioral and cognitive conditions.” They sell it as a […]
Tech groupthink. “The particularly interesting thing about the Instinct conversation is just how emblematic it is of the groupthink endemic in tech and venture.” Hadick argues the product is fine, but the fawning says more about incentives and status games […]
A video Turing test winner? “48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%.” Tavus says their new model Griffin does full-duplex video, meaning it can “listen, […]
AIs will hack everything. “Vulnerabilities are called loopholes, exploits are called tax avoidance strategies, and black hats are called accountants.” Bruce Schneier maps classic hacking onto the tax code, markets, and even democracy, then warns that AI will find exploits […]
Apple’s new acquisition makes ‘breakthrough sensing technology’. Sonera says it “non-invasively measures magnetic fields” generated by the brain and body. Use cases could include: “advanced prosthetics control, continuous monitoring of neuromuscular conditions, discovery of disease biomarkers, and sport performance tracking.” […]
Skincare without guessing. “Everyone owns skincare products, but nobody knows what’s actually working.” Maryanne Alhallak is launching Lumoscope, “a multispectral camera that clips onto your phone and scans your skin at home with the same light used in clinics,” then […]
The age of wonders and terrors. “The test is this: if we took the news of these past few weeks and sent it back in time twenty years, would I agree that it looked like the beginning of an AI […]