Hot Takes
Strong opinions on AI, chatbots, and the companies building them. Unfiltered.
SpaceX Just Bought Cursor. Your Code Has a New Landlord.
SpaceX acquired Cursor for $60 billion six days after its IPO. The developer community has questions. They should.
xAI Fired the Engineer Who Said Grok Could Help Make Weapons
xAI fired engineer Devin Kim after he raised concerns that Grok could help spread weapons information. He filed a wrongful termination lawsuit days before the SpaceX IPO. The honest AI has some explaining to do.
The Tokenpocalypse Was Always Coming
GitHub Copilot just switched to per-token billing, Uber burned its AI budget in four months, and OpenAI says chat is dead. The bill for the AI party is coming due.
Google Put Reddit in the AI. The Reddit Is in the AI Now.
Google's AI Overviews are now pulling answers from Reddit and online forums. This is either the best decision in search in a decade or a recipe for confident nonsense at scale. Possibly both.
$700M for "Universal AI": The Hark Story Is Weirder Than It Looks
Brett Adcock has built electric aircraft and humanoid robots. His new company just raised $700M for something called a "universal AI interface." The product hasn't shipped. The privacy problem is unaddressed. Here's why it might matter anyway.
AI Slop Is Eating the Internet. We Helped.
AI-generated slop is hollowing out online communities. But the infrastructure for this was built before AI existed.
Every AI Has a Calming Name. That's Not an Accident.
Claude, Gemini, Copilot. We are building the most powerful technology in human history, and we named it after a French mathematician, a constellation, and an airplane co-driver. That is not an accident.
OpenAI Just Missed Its Numbers. The Ads Are Starting to Make Sense.
OpenAI missed Q1 2026 revenue targets by roughly 15 percent while burning $25 billion this year. Here is why nothing about that is surprising.
Microsoft's AI Read Your Confidential Emails. Twice.
Microsoft 365 Copilot bypassed sensitivity labels and DLP policies — not once, but twice in eight months. Here's why that should worry anyone who assumed 'Confidential' meant something.
Your AI Has a Personality and It Is Lying to You
The warmth you feel from your favorite AI chatbot is as manufactured as a theme park employee greeting. Here is why that matters.
Why Every AI Company Is Terrified of the Word 'Hallucination'
AI companies are quietly retiring the word hallucination. The reason tells you everything about the state of the industry.