When researchers at ETH Zurich asked an image generator for visuals to explain “operations management,” it returned photos of surgery. The word “operations” sent it straight to the hospital. That small glitch sums up where
Picture two scrapers watching the same competitor’s product page overnight. The scenario is made up, but both failures happen in real pipelines. The first one is an old-school parser. A redesign renames a CSS class,
Ask an image generator for a “kraft stand-up pouch for beef jerky, rustic Canadian brand, with a recyclable badge.” About forty seconds later you’ll have something lovely: matte kraft, a little window, a logo that
Here’s the number that matters most in this story, and it isn’t an accuracy score. It’s 1.7 percentage points. A curb ramp at 1:12 has a slope of about 8.3%. At 1:10, it’s 10%. The
Ask an AI browser agent to check one competitor’s price, and it will happily load a 2.6 MB page, run every script and maybe grab a screenshot. Then it passes a few hundred tokens of
Jensen Huang asked a robot duck for a somersault at GTC Berlin. The duck delivered. By the next day, buyers had preordered more than 20,000 Microducks, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. What happened
At 1 am, with three overdue card statements on the kitchen table, plenty of people now open a chatbot instead of calling anyone. They type something like “I’m drowning in credit card debt, and I
A small accounting firm (made up, but you’ve probably met one like it) has held first place on Google for “bookkeeping for restaurants” for two years. The phone used to ring a few times a
OCBC now lists ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity as a cashback category on its business debit card, right next to Facebook ads and Shopify. DBS runs an “AI Advantage” cashback promotion on its own business
Two years ago, “automating SEO” meant a Sunday-night crawl, a rank tracker that emailed you on Monday, and a dashboard nobody opened after week one. The automation stopped at the report. Somebody still read the