By Thomas B. Fowler (bio – articles – email) | January 21, 2026 Introductory note from Jeff Mirus: In 2024, Thomas Fowler wrote a series of four articles on artificial intelligence for CatholicCulture.org: At the end of 2025, Tom published a major book on this subject: Artificial intelligence: foundations, limits, advantages and dangers….
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….
As AI systems integrate into business processes, organizations face growing AI governance, risk, and compliance needs. In our prior research, we tested AI risks in practice with an AI bias benchmark, finding persistent bias around race, gender, and socioeconomic assumptions in several models. These findings underscore the importance of AI GRC tools, which help continuously…
Tax season is here, but data shows that 29% of Americans will procrastinate on filing their taxes this year. 7th Annual IPX 1031 Tax Procrastination Report Reveals Not Everyone Will Be Procrastinated submit their returns on time. The data explains why 60% of people say filing taxes is stressful or takes too long. To help…
TAIPEI, February 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Shield AI today announced that it has signed a contract with Taiwan’s National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) to advance the development, demonstration and deployment of AI-driven unmanned systems. The collaboration will integrate Shield AI’s Hivemind platform into NCSIST’s intelligent unmanned systems, supporting both software development and…
HAS THESE last week, executives from agriculture, genetics And crop protection companies during a round table describe how artificial intelligence (AI) is moving upstream into the economic heart of agriculture, reshaping decisions about what is planted and where inputs are applied And how returns are maximized. Agriculture operates on razor-thin margins global on a large…
IRONTON, Ohio (WSAZ) – The Ironton City Council held a meeting Thursday evening to take preventative measures to prevent AI data centers from setting up shop within city limits. We spoke with City Council member Jacob Hock, who said he has concerns on several fronts. This is why he organized an emergency vote to temporarily…
Stanley Druckenmiller, one of the most successful hedge fund managers in history, sold Microsoft and bought Amazon in the third quarter. Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller is a former hedge fund manager who earned about 30% annually for three decades without a single down year. He closed the hedge fund in 2010, but still manages his own…
Starlink clients are the latest thing for the AI mill. The company has updated its Privacy Policy on January 15 to enable the collection of user data for AI training. Customers are registered by default, but it is relatively simple to unsubscribe. Starlink says it may use your personal information “to train our machine learning…
Microsoft’s development center in Israel is creating a new Israeli AI Red Team, focused on identifying weaknesses and threats in artificial intelligence systems. The new group will simulate advanced attacks against the company’s AI-based services and operate within Microsoft’s internal security organization. At the same time, Microsoft is recruiting around 50 employees for cybersecurity positions…