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Everyone Is Certain About AI… And That’s A Problem

Lately, I’ve been noticing how certain we’ve all become about AI (and, yes, I’ve been guilty of this too… I

Something isn’t adding up. Every boardroom conversation tells us AI is an imperative.Every earnings call suggests transformation is underway and

The conversation around AI keeps getting framed the wrong way. Safety versus free speech.As if those are the only two

There’s a story that’s been told so many times in tech lore: Startup rises… massive incumbent falls… the scrappy startup

What business is Meta really in? It’s easy to say “advertising.”But that answer feels incomplete.Too simple for a platform that

When a company becomes worth $4 trillion, we should all pause. Not because it’s a nice round number.Because that number

We keep calling it a device. But that’s not what this is.When OpenAI announced it was merging with io –

You’ve probably heard someone say: “I don’t need ChatGPT.” Fair. Most people didn’t think they needed a smartphone either..Because whether you

Let’s rewind the clock. It’s 1975. Two guys – Bill Gates and Paul Allen – decide that writing code for the

Artificial intelligence has always been a battleground. But this week in Paris, at the AI Action Summit, the fight was

The assumption was simple. The United States would always be the leader in artificial intelligence. American tech giants had the

What if the future of artificial intelligence isn’t just about machines getting smarter, but about nations building empires? This isn’t

How much is your country investing in artificial intelligence? Up here in Canada, our Liberal government, under current Prime Minister