OpenClaw is genuinely impressive tech. The FOMO-driven spending spree around it is not. Discovery is real, but so is lighting money on fire.

The AI industry’s pivot to ‘pragmatism’ isn’t maturation—it’s reputation management for promises that didn’t survive contact with reality.

A new paper warns that AI bot swarms threaten democracy by manufacturing ‘false consensus.’ The problem: social media was never a meaningful proxy for public opinion. You can’t corrupt a signal that was never there.

While everyone argues about AGI timelines, Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol quietly became industry standard. One of these things changes what you build. The other is trivia.

Every tech keynote features AI agents that autonomously handle complex tasks. The demos are impressive. The reality is different - and that’s actually fine, once you calibrate your expectations.