Author: Ken Roberts

  • Elon Wants to Buy OpenAI—What Could Go Wrong?

    Elon Musk is reportedly putting together $97 billion with some private equity muscle to try and take over OpenAI. If your first reaction is “what could possibly go wrong?”—you’re not alone. Look, I’ve got respect for innovation. But concentration of power like this? Dangerous. When one man has his hands on rockets, cars, satellites, and…

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  • Anthropic’s New Index—Data’s Not the Whole Story

    Anthropic just launched their Economic Index to track how AI is impacting labor markets. It’s neat in theory—graphs, trends, predictions—but let’s not pretend a line chart can explain the human cost of automation. Sure, it tells you how many jobs are “impacted.” But it doesn’t tell you what that feels like for a 50-year-old tech…

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  • AI Action Summit—Money First, Morals Later

    The AI Action Summit just wrapped in Paris, and it’s all about the money, baby. €200 billion from the EU, €110 billion from France. Everybody’s hyped about economic opportunity, but I’ve got to ask: where’s the roadmap for ethics? We’ve seen this movie before—tech gets funded fast, regulators scramble late, and the public gets burned.…

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  • Mistral’s “Le Chat” Is Fast, too—Do I Le Trust It?

    French startup Mistral just dropped an AI assistant called Le Chat that can supposedly chew through 1,000 words per second. Translation: it’s fast. Real fast. But you know how I feel about speed in tech—it’s great, until it runs over something important. For small business ops or IT teams thinking about automation—don’t be dazzled. Test…

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  • OpenAI’s “Deep Research” Is Supposedly Fast—But Is It True?

    OpenAI’s rolling out a shiny new tool called Deep Research, letting ChatGPT dig through the web and spit out a report in minutes—with citations and all. Sounds slick. But here’s my take: speed doesn’t equal truth. My peeps in academia, journalism, and even corporate IT—this ain’t the time to get lazy. Just because a chatbot…

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  • Sunday Stack—What I Still Trust in a Sea of Bloat

    Every few months, folks ask me what tools I still trust—tools that don’t track me, break randomly, or need a machine-learning overlay just to run a spreadsheet. So here’s my short stack, February 2025 edition: No subscriptions. No nonsense. Just tools that respect the user.

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