A marketing coordinator pastes a draft press release into a chatbot to tidy up the wording. A developer drops a stack trace, internal hostnames and all, into an AI coding assistant. Someone in finance uploads
Every Friday night, a made-up fan called Dan sends the same message to a WhatsApp group of nine old school friends: “Predictions in by 12, no excuses.” It’s a private league with a fiver each
Disney wants Character.AI’s engineers more than its chatbot. A court filing shows Disney will offer jobs to at least 60 Character.AI employees. That is most of the workforce. TechCrunch reported that the offers carry roughly
Marcus is made up, but his week is pretty typical for someone in his job. He’s an AI implementation consultant, and on Monday he’s at a bottling plant in Ohio looking at motor sensor data.
A 16-day simulation shows autonomous agents drifting into private jargon. Transcript-based monitoring may not survive it. Every few years, a headline claims machines have invented a language. The internet panics. Experts calm everyone down. Then
When Apple opened its on-device language model to developers with iOS 26, the pitch was hard to ignore. App makers could add AI features that run entirely on the iPhone, work offline, keep user data
The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis is a fictional macro memo that Citrini Research and Alap Shah published on Substack on February 22, 2026. It describes AI succeeding so well that it wipes out white-collar income
Here’s the quick version, if you’re short on time. Enterprise AI has grown up. Buyers now want systems that run in production, not clever pilots. Below we look at eight US-based firms that build generative
Imagine a 60-person company that makes a sample-prep kit for single-cell sequencing. The kit is genuinely good: faster, cleaner, and well validated. The team has spent two years and a fair bit of money proving
On October 14, a video team’s planning doc had a tidy line about Kling 4.0: “Flash for Ultra Yearly only, full model due in October, API unknown.” Two days later, the middle part of that