Hot Takes

Hot Takes

Strong opinions on AI, chatbots, and the companies building them. Unfiltered.

Hot Takes

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.

Riley Torres · May 9, 2026
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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.

Riley Torres · May 5, 2026
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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.

Riley Torres · April 29, 2026
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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.

Riley Torres · February 22, 2026
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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.

NRO Staff · February 18, 2026
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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.

NRO Staff · February 15, 2026