News on the Future

AI ‘Superpowers’ or Just a Super Search Engine?

Google’s new AI research assistant is being hyped as a game-changer for science, but so far, it hasn’t actually discovered anything new. If AI is supposed to accelerate breakthroughs, why is it just repackaging existing knowledge?

AI Is Aging—And Forgetting Like a Human

Your AI might be smarter than you today, but give it some time and it might start forgetting things just like your grandpa.

AI Is Eating the Web—And This Time, It’s Coming for Itself

AI is now feasting on its own leftovers. The question is: how long before it starves?

What if Scaling GPUs does not Bring us AGI?

Half a trillion dollars later, the AI industry is quietly admitting what some of us have suspected all along: scaling alone won’t get us to AGI. The “just add more GPUs” era is running out of steam.

Your Most Important Customer Might Not Be Human

Forget about convincing people to buy your product. AI might be the one making the decision. If your brand isn’t optimized for AI-generated recommendations, you’re already losing customers you never even knew you had.

AI is Making Us Smarter—Or Just Better at Skimming?

If AI keeps thinking for us, will we forget how? Generative AI is reshaping knowledge work, but not in the way we hoped.

Mind-Reading AI Is Here—But Are We Ready?

If your thoughts were transcribed in real-time, would you be comfortable with the world reading them? Scientists just made a major leap in brain decoding AI, and privacy may never be the same again.

AI Startups: Boom or Bubble? The Billion-Dollar Gamble

If you want funding for your startup, just add “AI” to your pitch. Don’t believe me? 80% of Y Combinator’s startups did exactly that last year, and investors poured $110 billion into AI ventures.

Elon Musk’s AI Propaganda Machine—The Real Danger No One Sees

If AI can shape your thoughts without you noticing, who really owns your mind? Elon Musk’s Grok 3 isn’t just another chatbot. It’s a powerful, biased LLM designed to push an agenda. And whether you realize it or not, it might already be working.

Meta’s $70 Billion Metaverse Blunder—What Went Wrong?

If $70 billion buys you this, what does failure look like? Meta’s latest Horizon Worlds ad was so bad, they deleted it, but not before the internet had a field day.