Demystifying Artificial Intelligence: Understanding the Mechanism Behind the Magic

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly touching nearly every aspect of our modern life, from simple predictive models for text completion when composing messages and emails to highly sophisticated content creation, such as prompt-based realistic video generation. Yet despite AI’s widespread prevalence, there remains unawareness or misunderstanding about what AI truly is and how it operates….

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AI Week in Review 26.01.17

Figure 1. Ralph Wiggum has recently been the talk of the AI coding developer community, as Vivek on X explains. The “Ralph loop” in Claude Code adds a “verify and try again” loop to agentic coding tasks. Many users found it remarkably useful for completing some agentic coding tasks, so the method has gone viral….

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AI wasn’t the biggest engine of U.S. economic growth in 2025

Meta’s 5-gigawatt “Hyperion” data center under construction in Richland Parish, Louisiana, January 9, 2026. Meta The popular narrative that artificial intelligence is the engine that keeps the U.S. economy alive appears exaggerated, according to recent analyses. The AI ​​boom has reshaped stock market valuations, driven large investments and record bond issuances to finance data centers,…

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Executives like David Solomon of Goldman Sachs say experience trumps everything in business, including brains. But Ricardo Amper, founder and CEO of the $1.25 billion software company Incode Technologies, believes Gen Z’s naivety is a professional blessing rather than a career curse. “My belief [is] that it is important to come out with a fresh…

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Beyond IVR: How Kapture CX is building AI voice agents that act, not just talk

As voice becomes the fastest growing customer support interface in India, businesses are moving beyond IVRs to AI agents that can understand, act and resolve at scale. Kapture CX is at the forefront of this change by creating multilingual, code-combination-enabled AI voice bots that deliver consistent experiences across geographies while executing real workflows securely. In…

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How Higher Ed Can Reverse It

Bâtiments du campus universitaire getty Quatre-vingt-dix pour cent des professeurs affirment que l’IA affaiblit la pensée critique. C’est selon un Enquête de janvier 2026 auprès de 1 057 membres du corps professoral menée par l’Association américaine des collèges et universités et l’Université Elon. Cette préoccupation trouve un écho à l’échelle mondiale. Un rapport distinct de janvier…

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AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy

A joint essay with Daniel Thilo Schroeder and Jonas R. Kunst, based on a new paper on swarms with 22 authors (including myself) who just published in Science. (A preprinted version is hereand you can see WIRED’s coverage here.) Automated bots spreading misinformation have been a problem since the early days of social media, and…

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The Oscars’ AI Lie: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

(Illustration by Ankler; Charles Eshelman/Getty Images) Share I cover the intersection of Hollywood and AI for paying subscribers. I wrote about eight companies that are using AI the right wayexplored Disney’s deal with OpenAI and I dove into what AI interpreter is Tilly Norwood means for the actors. The Academy cinema arts and sciences keeps…

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