Stanford’s 2026 AI Index: Where AI Actually Stands (report)
The ninth edition of Stanford’s AI Index Report landed this week, and the headline from co-chairs Yolanda Gil and Raymond Perrault sets the tone. “The…
IN TECH
What Happens When the AI Remembers You
A month ago, I wrote about how Molty, our new AI agent built on the OpenClaw framework, had accidentally passed a Turing test with Clinton’s…
Can You Fit a 70B Model on a Single RTX 5090? Google’s TurboQuant Says Yes
The AI industry loves a big number. Trillion-parameter models. Million-token context windows. Massive GPU clusters that cost more than most houses. But some of the…
IN CULTURE
Sonoma Film Festival 2026: Wine Country Meets Serious Cinema
The Sonoma Film Festival returns March 25-29 with Maude Apatow directorial debut and Steven Soderbergh headlining a lineup that proves wine country is a legit…
‘My Father’s Shadow’ Review: A Genuinely Powerful Film About Family, Duty, and Democracy
On the Reddit-t/movies website, director Akinola Davies Jr. is quoted as saying: “My feature debut, My Father’s Shadow, was the 1st Nigerian film selected for…
A Cake, a Command, a Childhood on the Line
Hasan Hadi’s The President’s Cake turns an authoritarian ritual into a breathless day-in-the-life chase—set against Iraq’s legendary marshlands.
IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Don’t Let Your AI Agents Become Glorified Cron Jobs
What we learned onboarding autonomous bots with OpenClaw and NanoClaw, and why Claude Code kept trying to neuter our agents. It’s pretty clear that the…
Our AI Agent Accidentally Talked to the In-Laws for an Hour
What running autonomous AI agents taught us about the real cost of intelligence—and a creative way to solve it
Samsung Unveils Galaxy S26 Ultra with World-First Privacy Display
Samsung launches the Galaxy S26 series at Unpacked 2026, led by the S26 Ultra with a Privacy Display, 200MP f/1.4 camera, Perplexity AI, and Snapdragon…
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