AI is everywhere, the pressure to adopt it is relentless, and the evidence that it’s making us smarter is getting thinner by the quarter. On New Year’s Day 2026, a programmer named Steve Yegge launched an open-source platform called Gas Town. It lets users orchestrate swarms of AI coding agents simultaneously, assembling software at speeds […]

Bradley S. Klein / Wall Street Journal:
How AI is transforming golf: optimizing course operations, virtual assistants handling tee time bookings, and AI instructor apps improving player performance  —  From reserving a tee time to fending off turf disease, artificial intelligence is putting the game under an algorithmic microscope

Robert Burnson / Bloomberg:
Court filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's recent amendments to his OpenAI lawsuit are a “legal ambush”, calling them “legally improper and factually unsupported”  —  OpenAI says Elon Musk has suddenly changed direction on what he's seeking in his lawsuit against the startup in a …

The drug discovery revolution is real but radically overstated, the health chatbots are a documented hazard, and the diseases that matter most remain stubbornly unsolved. At Novartis, sometime in late 2025, a team of researchers working on Huntington’s disease used generative AI to computationally design 15 million potential compounds for a type of molecule called […]

Clara Murray / Financial Times:
Ramp data: 30.6% of US businesses paid for Anthropic's tools in March, up from 24.4% in February; OpenAI's US business adoption remained nearly flat MoM at ~35%  —  Divergence reflects company's recent rapid growth owing to strong interest in its Claude Code products