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From AGI to adverts: A new money-making scheme

To say OpenAI's latest foray into revenue generation is underwhelming might sound glib, but it marks a staggering retreat from the…

January 2026

Analysis

If OpenAI Sneezes, the World Catches a Cold

As we enter 2026, it's important to acknowledge the game has changed. We're three years into a stifling AI summer, and still the g…

January 2026

Analysis

November Technology Review: Bubbles and outages

Sentiment is sliding everywhere, with bubble anxieties continuing to weigh on builders, even as public perception of most technolo…

December 2025

Analysis

Ads in OpenAI: Can they plug the financial gap?

There's a prevailing and entirely understandable scepticism about OpenAI's prospects. In a recent interview, Sam Altman brushed of…

December 2025

Analysis

October Technology Review: AI Layoffs dominate

In October, news coverage focused extensively on the impact of artificial intelligence on workforce reductions. Sam Altman contrib…

November 2025

Analysis

Robots doing the laundry: A multi-billion dollar market

Morgan Stanley reckons humanoid robots will form a $5trillion market by 2050. The bulk will be chained to the factory floor. But a…

October 2025

Analysis

Humanoid robots provide a pragmatic fix for manufacturers

In October, reports emerged of Western business leaders returning from China deeply unsettled. The spooked execs bore testimony of…

October 2025

Analysis

September Technology Review: Huzzah for good ol’ cloud

September has been challenging for most of the technologies we monitor, with builder conviction generally on the decline. Notably,…

October 2025

Futures

The Looming Threat of Cognitive Contagion

The agentic internet is being built for speed and precision. Autonomous AI agents will transact, negotiate, and make decisions fas…

October 2025

Analysis

LLMs Hit the Ceiling, World Models Break Through It

Language models are reaching the edges of their training diet. After years of feeding them the internet, performance gains now arr…

October 2025

Analysis

Microsoft Just Accidentally Armed Voice Cloners Everywhere

Microsoft recently released, and then abruptly retracted, an open-source text-to-speech model named VibeVoice. The model was capab…

September 2025

Analysis

OpenAI: Their own research reveals a troubling utility challenge

OpenAI's latest research explores how people are using ChatGPT. Three big categories dominate the field. Writing (of which, thankf…

September 2025

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