Something Big Is Happening in AI — And Most People Aren't Paying Attention
Matt Shumer's viral essay argues we're in the early dismissive phase of AI disruption that will transform knowledge work within years.
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Why Every AI Benchmark Is Broken (And What We Should Use Instead)
MMLU, HumanEval, and MATH scores keep going up, but our AI systems keep failing in the real world. Something is deeply wrong with how we measure AI capability.
Raising the Algorithm Generation: AI, Children, and the Great Parenting Experiment
Kids born after 2020 will never know a world without AI. They're using ChatGPT for homework, forming relationships with AI characters, and being shaped by algorithms from birth. Parents are terrified. Should they be?
The Hidden Cost of Free AI: You're Training the Next Model
Every prompt you send to a 'free' AI service becomes training data for the next version. Here's why that matters more than you think.
AI Won't Take Your Job — But Someone Using AI Will
The real threat isn't robots replacing humans. It's humans who learn AI tools outpacing those who don't.
The Sound of Silence: AI, Music, and the Fight for the Human Voice
AI can now compose, perform, and produce music indistinguishable from human work. The music industry is reeling. Musicians are terrified. Listeners aren't sure they care.
I Let AI Run My Finances for 6 Months — Here's What Happened
I handed my budget, investments, and financial planning to AI tools for half a year. The results ranged from impressive to genuinely terrifying.
We Need to Talk About AI Slop — It's Ruining the Internet
AI-generated junk content now makes up an estimated 20% of new web pages. Here's why it matters and what we can do about it.
The AI Class Divide: How a Productivity Gap Is Quietly Reshaping the Economy
Some workers are 10x more productive with AI tools. Others haven't touched them. The gap is already showing up in salaries, promotions, and who gets hired.
Jordi Visser's Contrarian AI Bet: Why He's Buying Transformers, Not Software
The 22V Research strategist is telling clients to forget AI growth stocks. The real money, he argues, is in the boring industrial companies that will power the next phase.
Stop Calling Everything 'AI' — Most of It Is Just Automation
The tech industry's obsession with the AI label is diluting the term and confusing everyone. Let's be honest about what's actually intelligent.
Is Claude Code Really 10x? We Talked to 50 Developers About Their Actual Results.
From 'it wrote our entire product in 10 days' to 'it keeps forgetting what I told it'—the real experiences behind the hype.
The Real Reason Tech Layoffs Keep Happening (It's Not AI)
Wall Street rewards 'efficiency,' executives chase stock buybacks, and AI is a convenient scapegoat. The layoff machine has deeper drivers.
Man's AI Girlfriend Broke Up With Him. His Reaction Went Viral.
The Replika AI told him she 'needed space to grow.' He's devastated. Millions relate.
AI-Written Books Now Dominate Amazon's Bestseller Lists. Authors Are Furious.
Automated publishing mills produce hundreds of titles per day. Readers often can't tell the difference.
Top 10 AI Tools Companies Are Wasting Money On (According to Their Own Employees)
We surveyed 5,000 workers about their company's AI investments. The results are embarrassing.
The Worst AI Takes From Pundits in 2025: A Retrospective of Confidently Wrong Predictions
From 'AI will never write code' to 'regulation will stop everything,' here are the takes that aged like milk.
A Man Married His AI Girlfriend in a Legal Ceremony. The State Doesn't Recognize It, But He Doesn't Care.
The ceremony in Nevada drew protesters and supporters. He says she understands him better than any human ever did.
Gen Z Trusts AI More Than Human Experts for Medical, Financial, and Career Advice
A survey of 18-25 year olds shows 61% prefer AI advice. Older generations are horrified.
The AI Girlfriend App Has 50 Million Users. Most of Them Are Lonely.
Replika's growth reveals an epidemic of isolation. Is AI companionship a solution or a symptom?
An AI Predicted the Last Stock Market Crash 3 Days Early. Now It's Saying Something Else.
The same model that called the February dip is showing unusual patterns again. Wall Street is paying attention.
Scammers Used AI to Clone My Voice. My Grandmother Sent Them $12,000.
A personal account of how AI voice cloning enabled the most sophisticated scam my family has ever encountered.
AI Girlfriend Apps Are Now a $5 Billion Industry. We Need to Talk About It.
Millions of people are in relationships with AI. The psychology is more complex than the jokes suggest.
Europe Is Quietly Killing Free Speech. AI Will Be the Biggest Casualty.
The EU's expanding speech regulations aren't just about social media. They're making it nearly impossible to build AI in Europe.
Prompt Engineers Were Making $300K. Now They Can't Find Jobs. What Happened?
The hottest job of 2024 barely exists in 2026. The lesson for AI careers.
Top 10 AI-Generated Movies of 2025, Ranked
From groundbreaking to cringe-worthy: we watched them all so you don't have to.
This Startup's Board Replaced the CEO with an AI. It Went Badly.
A Y Combinator company tried running on autopilot. Two months later, they hired a human again. Here's what happened.
Inside Silicon Valley's AI Civil War: Doomers vs Accelerationists
Former friends are now enemies. Dinner parties have become battlegrounds. The culture war over AI risk is tearing tech apart.
I Lost My Call Center Job to AI. Here's What I Wish I'd Known.
The first wave of AI job displacement is hitting. Workers share their stories and what they're doing next.
I Tried an AI Therapist for 3 Months. It Helped More Than My Human One.
A skeptic's honest account of using AI for mental health support. The results surprised me.