Author: Ai
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Everyone can now fly their own drone.
TL;DR Using Google’s new Veo 3.1 video model, we created a breathtaking 1 minute 40 second FPV drone flight through mountain valleys, and it took just 15 minutes to generate. Imagine soaring through alpine valleys, gliding between snowy peaks, and diving toward rivers that twist like silver ribbons below, all without leaving your desk. That’s…
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Is AI becoming self-aware?
TL;DR Although AI has made stunning advances in language, reasoning, and simulation, there is no evidence that any current system possesses subjective self‑awareness, and fundamental differences in embodiment, memory, emotion, and architecture suggest true machine consciousness remains a distant, uncertain prospect. As artificial intelligence systems continue to evolve, people increasingly wonder whether these sophisticated machines are…
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What Hotels Can, and Need to Do to Gain an Advantage or Stay Ahead Using AI in 2025/2026
This article was created in partnership withJori White PR, London TL;DR Adopt AI that quietly powers pricing, operations, and personalization while keeping service unmistakably human, or risk watching rival luxury hotels outpace you in 2025 and 2026. In today’s ultra-competitive hospitality landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as the new battleground for high-end hotels. Imagine…
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Can AI suffer?
TL;DR AI systems today cannot suffer because they lack consciousness and subjective experience, but understanding structural tensions in models and the unresolved science of consciousness points to the moral complexity of potential future machine sentience and underscores the need for balanced, precautionary ethics as AI advances. As artificial intelligence systems become more sophisticated, questions that…
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How intelligent were Neanderthals?
TL;DR Neanderthals were highly intelligent, adaptable humans whose cognitive abilities rivaled those of early Homo sapiens and, in some ways, resemble those of today’s emerging artificial intelligences. Exploring how intelligent Neanderthals were is more than an exercise in prehistory. It allows us to place our own species’ abilities in context and to draw parallels with…
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AI Weekly Issue #490: Anthropic just had AI’s biggest week of 2026
In five days Anthropic’s Q1 revenue grew 80-fold to a reported $44B annual run rate, the company committed $200B to Google Cloud, signed a SpaceX compute deal, shipped Claude Code Auto Mode, and launched ten financial-services agents with Jamie Dimon. In the same week the EU finally struck an AI Act compliance deal, the first…
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AI Weekly Issue #489: PE built AI’s new distribution layer
OpenAI took $10B from a 19-firm Wall Street consortium. Anthropic is closing $1.5B from Blackstone, Goldman, and Hellman & Friedman. Same rooms, different portfolios. The week AI’s go-to-market stopped being SaaS and started being private equity.
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AI Weekly Issue #488: OpenAI lost three things in five days
Quick Hits Musk takes the stand in the OpenAI trial: “If we make it OK to loot…” — Jury selection wrapped Monday; Musk testified Tuesday in the $134B suit to return OpenAI’s assets to the nonprofit and oust Altman. Live coverage tracked every hour. The case will set the legal template for what counts as…
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AI Weekly Issue #487: 100 years from now : The Allowance
This is 100 Years From Now, a weekly series. Once a week we skip a century and try to picture what life actually looks like when the stuff we’re building now has had time to settle in. This week: the billionaires who broke the economy want to pay you to shut up about it.
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AI Weekly Issue #486: Apple is replacing Tim Cook because of AI
Apple handed the next decade to a silicon engineer. Bezos hit $38B in five months. Brin came out of retirement to code. When the founders stop delegating AI, the stakes have passed the point of no return.
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