AI-mania: Why the World’s Suddenly Obsessed with Artificial Intelligence News Alright, folks, buckle up! We’re diving headfirst into the whirlwind that is artificial intelligence news. It’s everywhere, it’s buzzing, and it’s got more drama than a K-drama marathon. But why, you ask? Why is the world suddenly obsessed with AI? Let’s break it down, add…
Microsoft to UK: Here’s £2.5 Billion, Please Don’t Look at the Other Tabs By Our London Bureau Chief, Nursing a Flat-White and Existential Dread LONDON—In the same week the British government was busy politely asking its citizens to stop heating soup on radiators, Microsoft swaggered into Westminster with a promise so large it required three…
Google Gemini: The World’s Newest Polyglot, Poly-currency, Poly-problem Child by L. V. “Vesper” Moreau, Senior International Chronicler of Algorithmic Misbehavior PARIS—On a rainy Thursday that felt suspiciously like the last rainy Thursday, Google unveiled Gemini, its latest multilingual, multimodal, and multi-continent artificial intelligence. The launch party—streamed from a loft in Mountain View and simultaneously simulcast…
Gemini: The Heavenly Twins Go Global, Again By the time you finish this sentence, three new AI models will have been trained, two crypto exchanges will have imploded, and one astrologer in Mumbai will have blamed Mercury retrograde for all of it. Yet amid the perpetual churn of modernity, the word “Gemini” keeps bobbing to…
CUPERTINO, California — On a Tuesday morning that felt suspiciously like a Wednesday everywhere else, Apple once again summoned the planet’s press corps, influencers, and sleep-deprived analysts to a glass-and-aluminum temple of consumer desire. The occasion: another “special event,” which, in the argot of Silicon Valley, translates loosely to “a live infomercial with better lighting…
