If you don’t live in the Czech Republic, you may not understand this story. A few years ago, when the government wanted to promote tourism in the Czech Republic, it came up with the slogan “land of stories.” The Czech Republic is truly a land of stories. This story is about how a former locksmith created a marketplace serving drug...

Saudi Arabia has established a new artificial intelligence company called Humain, led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Trump visited the country and brought with him tech personalities such as Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Mark Zuckerberg to attend a major investment meeting. Saudi Arabia is seriously trying to overcome its dependence on oil and become a technological superpower. The...

We have just experienced two very instructive events that have helped us better understand the dangers posed by AI. It brings “post-truth”—a complete imitation of knowledge that lacks the one thing it needs: knowledge. Everything else is in place. I was sitting in the front row, so I’ll give you a report.

I was one of the few who did not comment on this METR graph, in which the AI capability curve shoots steeply upward, forming the desired hockey stick, exponential shape. Yet I have been saying for some time that there is no breakthrough in AI. How does this “hockey stick” fit in with this claim?

Artificial intelligence rarely makes waves in the Czech Republic, but the departure of Tomáš Mikolov, a leading AI scientist, from the Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT) was just such an event. The announcement came at the AI Zážeh spolupráce conference two weeks ago, and since then it has been discussed from all angles. I met with Tomáš Mikolov to...

You’ve probably heard about it. Chinese company Deepseek released its new AI models, and a trillion dollars was wiped off the US tech stock market in an instant. Shares in Nvidia and Broadcom, two publicly traded companies dependent on the success of AI chip sales, fell 17 percent in one day (on Monday) and did not recover on Tuesday, although...

It’s hard with podcasts. I don’t really like them, I find them informationally sparse, you listen to something for an hour and there’s not that much valuable information to be gained from it. You’d absorb it faster from an article. But in my field of interest, there are a lot of podcasts being made and you can’t keep track of...