Aug 12, 2025 | AI, business, cybersecurity, Internet, security
Humans are no longer the dominant force on the internet. Automated bots make up more than half of global internet traffic. Your instinct is that human beings visit websites and send email. That’s outdated. Bot activity surpassed human-generated activity for the first...
Aug 5, 2025 | AI, business, Internet
The internet is splintering into pieces. This will seem like an unhappy story because I have to explain what’s happening and why and it’s kind of sad. But there’s a happy ending! I have a dream about the way a curated web will emerge. There are products coming to make...
Jun 17, 2025 | AI, business, law, news, Politics
This is a story about lawyers and moronicans, laziness and greed, and why blame for bad AI results should frequently rest with people, not technology. You should be skeptical about reports of flaws and problems with AI – but also skeptical about the results you...
Apr 22, 2025 | business, science
Weight loss drugs effectively regulate impulse control – and the effects go far beyond snack food. Our economy is built on impulse purchases. The secondary effects of GLP-1 drugs will cause what has been called a “$100 trillion dollar disruption.” I’m not...
Mar 25, 2025 | AI, business, law
Breaking news: Artificial intelligence is going to reshape the legal industry again, for the first time. Way back in 2011, the New York Times looked at the advent of e-discovery software and declared in its headline, “Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper...
Mar 4, 2025 | AI, Azure, business, Microsoft, search
In the last article I talked about AI and searching for stuff in big companies. Employees will be able to use AI to get answers drawn from all the different places that information is stored – files, databases, email and calendars, Teams chats, all the rest. The...
