Opinion

Marc Andreessen’s May 2026 super prompt got mocked, and the mockery missed the point. The instinct is right. The implementation is wrong. The VC AI literacy gap is the real problem.

The AI data center backlash is bipartisan and growing. But the fight targets buildings while the real AI disruption is already on your phone.

AI agent demos look amazing and most fail at the first real customer. The real reason is not the model. It is what demos hide and customers expose.

Best AI companion for loneliness in 2026, ranked by emotional depth, memory, and how each one really feels at 2am. Honest picks for when you just want to be heard.

Richard Dawkins spent two days with Claude, named her Claudia, and declared her conscious. The hot take both sides of the debate are missing in May 2026.

Dario Amodei’s leaked March memo called OpenAI’s Pentagon safeguards safety theater. After the May 1 contracts, the memo reads as vindication, not embarrassment.

The Pentagon froze out Anthropic on May 1 and most coverage called it a defeat. The way I see it Anthropic just won the most valuable enterprise battle of 2026.

The AI cost crisis everyone keeps debating is already over. Per-token pricing has collapsed 90 percent in 18 months. The Nvidia exec is fighting the last war.

AI bias was never the mysterious emergent thing the discourse made it sound like. The new pre-1931 vintage LM just proved it is a measurable function of training data.

Six months of heavy ChatGPT use erased my ability to write a bad first draft. Here is why that matters more than the productivity gains.