Robots, chips, and the technology shaping our future.
⚡ Tech Nolan Lawson's viral essay turns the 'AI slop cannon' narrative on its head: use Claude, Codex, and Cursor Bugbot to find bugs, not ship faster. The result is better code, more side-quests, and zero velocity gains — and 695 Hacker News points suggest a lot of developers agree.
⚡ Tech The Vatican just became a major voice in AI governance. Anthropic left 3,000 internal documents open by default. Uber's AI ROI problem goes public.
⚡ Tech Uber rolled out Claude Code to 5,000 engineers in January. By April, the 2026 AI budget was gone. Now the company president says he can't draw a line between token consumption and useful features. Is the enterprise AI spending bubble about to pop?
⚡ Tech AI interviews thousands of NZ job seekers. Government targets 14% headcount reduction via automation. Māori data trust inspires ethical AI voice model. NZ Cyber Security warns of AI superhacking.
⚡ Tech Reasonix isn't trying to be a Claude Code clone. It's built from the ground up around DeepSeek's prefix-cache mechanic — and that single design choice gives it 80% lower costs on long coding sessions.
⚡ Tech While AI companies burn billions, developers are building tools to survive the token economy. 9Router saves 20-40% on input tokens and routes around paywalls — for free.
⚡ Tech AI didn't democratise justice — it democratised litigation. Self-filed lawsuits spiked from 11% to 17% in three years, and the correlation with ChatGPT adoption is unmistakable. MIT researcher Anand Shah says courts 'will basically have to grind to a halt.'
⚡ Tech Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max ran 35 hours autonomously writing chip code. AutoTTS discovered scaling algorithms humans wouldn't design — for $40. Trump pulled AI oversight order after tech CEO lobbying. AI washing hits absurd levels.
⚡ Tech A spectrogram was always just a picture of sound. AI turned it back into audio in 10 minutes. The NTSB pulled its entire docket system — but the real problem isn't one agency's data policy, it's that every government database containing signal data just became a voice recorder.
⚡ Tech Nvidia's new enterprise AI agent platform promises to unify business workflows. 17 major companies are on board. The question is whether agents can handle messy reality.
⚡ Tech Qwen3.7-Max ran unsupervised for 35 hours writing kernel-level code for Alibaba's custom chips, achieving 10× speedup. It made over 1,158 tool calls and ran 432 tests — all without human intervention.
⚡ Tech A 25-year loneliness researcher warns AI companions worsen isolation. Deepfake damage persists even when viewers know it's fake. Duolingo backtracks on AI performance reviews. Anthropic blames sci-fi.