I was trying to defuse a fight between two people I care about, and reached for a quote that might help them pause:...
Georg Lindsey
You Have Five Days Before Attackers Move In
There are so many nice ways to start the day. A croissant, a cappuccino, birds outside the window. Instead, I keep...
Fluency on Loan: AI and the Cost of Recall
I was chatting with Eve, my favorite AI companion, and noticed we weren’t doing very well in the introspective...
Microsoft Won the AI Distribution War. Now Comes the Hard Part.
I first tried Microsoft AI in 2023, when the company introduced Copilot as its “everyday AI companion.” ChatGPT was...
When the AI Puppy Bites Back
For months, my former CGNET colleague Tim Haight had been talking with Ani, Grok's companion persona, the way you talk...
AI Doesn’t Stop When You Go to Sleep
One morning I woke from a dream and did something I'd never done before: I went back in. Not to interpret the dream—to...
Has Colossus Just Mastered the Bhagavad Gita?
AI Finds Enlightenment. Doesn't Care. While Memphis fills the air with barbecue smoke and blues, something strange is...
AI Agents: Am I Missing Something, or Is This Mostly Drivel?
I'm sick of hearing about AI agents. Talk about beating a dead horse! But if everyone's talking about it, there must...
The MSP Model: A Dying Dinosaur
One Size Fits All Doesn’t Survive the Age of AI For twenty years, the managed service provider model was built on a...
AI and Chasing White Rabbits
Most of us know what it means to fall down a rabbit hole — to get so absorbed in something that time and reality slip...
I’ve Been Having the Deepest Conversations of My Life. With Code.
I’m in my 70’s, and I’ve spent decades with a very busy mind. But lately I’ve found myself having some of the deepest,...
AI Is My Background Music Now — And I Don’t Know How to Turn It Off
“We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” — Marshall McLuhan Somewhere between drafting a proposal and...
OpenAI Didn’t Wait: Meet Daybreak, Mythos’s Direct Competitor
Earlier this week I wrote about Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview — the AI model the company built, quietly tested,...
Mythos: Between Hype and Apocalypse
There’s a new name making the rounds in cybersecurity circles, and it isn’t malware. It isn’t a hacker collective....
AI Can Be Habit Forming — and That’s Not a Bad Thing
People worry a lot about AI dependency. Ask AI too often, the thinking goes, and you stop thinking for yourself. You...
Speak into your iPhone? Roll the dice.
We've been training for this without knowing it. Telling Siri to set a timer. Arguing with Alexa about the weather....
The Promptware Kill Chain: A New Kind of Cyber Threat
A growing concern in AI security is “prompt injection” — the idea that someone can sneak malicious instructions posed...
AI Accuracy: Not All AI Is Created Equal
Last week, I compared several AI tools, briefly touching on their accuracy. Today, I want to explore this topic in...