Category: Tech Insights

Last week Google launched what most LinkedIn experts and AI newsletters summarized as one of the biggest technical leaps in years. The Rundown AI wrote: “Google Research introduced TurboQuant, an algorithm that compresses AI model memory over 6x without any retraining”. And LinkedIn AI (with 13,800 followers) wrote: “Google just made AI models smaller. Without…

After nearly five years of development and over $80 billion of investments, Meta is closing down the Metaverse on June 15. Metaverse was a constant race for a technology that never arrived: no-one felt comfortable standing up for hours with a big heavy device strapped on their face, so Meta began to design services for…

Things are moving fast now. Two months ago Anthropic launched a new feature called “Cowork”, where Claude works autonomously within a sandbox environment on your computer with access to your files and various connectors. You choose the files Claude can work with, but you need to be careful – if prompted the wrong way there…

Last year in Tech Insights 2025 Week 30 I wrote: “In my last two seminars I got the question what main trend I see for AI in 2026, and to me it’s easy: computer control. It’s the natural next step, and once we get models specifically trained for this then they will very soon be…

The main AI news of last week were the public announcements from Anthropic, OpenAI and the Department of War, where most people on social media seemed to summarize this as: Artists like Katy Perry even publicly posted on X that she has left ChatGPT and signed up for an Anthropic Pro plan, and it has…

A year ago our top benchmark for measuring “smartness” in AI models, ARC-AGI, was becoming saturated. OpenAI o3 scored over 87% on the benchmark in a high-compute configuration, and it became clear we needed a new benchmark. A new benchmark was designed, and ARC-AGI-2 was launched in March 2025. The test is based on visual…

The past two weeks you have probably read about the very popular AI agent “Clawdbot” that was later renamed to “OpenClaw”. OpenClaw is a viral, open-source AI agent platform that runs locally on your computer, allowing it to control your machine, manage files, and interact via chat apps like WhatsApp and Slack. Looking at the…

If you ask the AI coding tool Claude Code to commit source code directly to GitHub, it will by default add itself as an author with the commit message: “Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus”. Most people I work with do not trust Claude to commit anything at all by itself, and those who do trust it typically…

“My name is Steve Chen. I was the CTO and one of the co-founders of YouTube. I love what you’ve built with Notebook Navigator 2.2! I wanted to send out a note of gratitude.” Steve contacted me last Tuesday, and is just one of hundreds of users that have reached out to me saying that…

Can you tell if a video is real or AI generated? Runway, the company behind the AI video model Gen-4.5 just did a test where they let 1,043 participants watch two five-second clips, where the first frame of the real video was used to create the animated AI-video. In this study, less than 10% could…