In 2025, Figure 02 stopped being merely a demonstration inside BMW’s South Carolina plant. According to BMW, during a ten-month pilot the robot supported production of more than 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles, moved over 90,000 components and logged roughly 1,250…
A paradox has emerged online in 2026. ChatGPT, Gemini and other AI assistants are already mass-market tools for finding information, yet Google Search is not showing an obvious collapse. Google instead says total query volume has reached an all-time high…
Only a few years ago, generative AI followed a simple pattern: a phone or laptop accepted a request, sent it to a data center and returned the answer. The device itself was mostly a window into a remote computing system.…
Artificial intelligence now has a problem that barely existed at the start of the boom: it must prove that hundreds of billions of dollars have not been spent in vain. A few years ago, the main question was who could…
Artificial intelligence is unlikely to split the labor market neatly into “human jobs” and “machine jobs.” A more likely outcome is that it changes the rules of selection themselves: what becomes more valuable will not simply be whatever humans can…
Future artificial intelligence may develop not as one ever-larger model, but as a system of specialized agents that divide work among themselves. Yet the natural parallel with ants has one important limit. An ant colony has a queen, but no…