Artificial Intelligence (AI)

[caption id="attachment_5649" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Google and Samsung's glasses, left, and Google and Xreal's Project Aura, right, are two parts of a new wave of Gemini-powered tech arriving this fall. - Scott Stein/CNET[/caption] To understand why Google’s new intelligent eyewear is...

In a recent article, I explored how Obsidian can be used to organize information for AI-assisted work. Since then, I have been looking more closely at how an Obsidian-based approach relates to Retrieval-Augmented Generation, commonly known as RAG. This is...

I'm doing a "video" paper talk this Wednesday. Was checking the video presentation on a video monitor and it looked terrible. Of course it would. I created the video "waiting" in Keynote and it looked fine on my laptop but...

The trade-off between adopting a highly specialized enterprise legal platform like Harvey versus deploying a standalone model like Anthropic's Claude is a defining strategic choice for modern legal departments. The landscape has evolved rapidly since the early days of generative...

Google I/O 2026 just wrapped up, and the theme is clear: AI is moving from a passive chatbot that answers questions to an active partner that completes multi-step, long-horizon tasks. Instead of general, incremental updates, Google unveiled a highly specialized...

Every so often, a new phrase starts making the rounds in AI circles that sounds like a fundamental shift. Lately, one of those phrases is some variation of: “Deterministic AI as a guardrail for stochastic AI.” It has the cadence...

I had an interesting conversation and short demo with my boss Michael Greene today about how he is using Obsidian as a personal wiki to organize his work information - as well as use it as marked up information to...

I was fascinated when I read an article about the "Claude Council" and wondered if Mace Windu would be a member. I wanted to understand more about why this worked (or didn't) so I turned to ChatGPT EDU v5.5 Pro....

I've been seeing a lot of "digital headshots" ads lately. My "new hairdoo" (or lack there of) makes me feel strange with my mop head professionally so I thought I'd give one a try. This sample on InstaHeadshot's home page...

The latest update to Microsoft Copilot has introduced tools that were previously reserved for software developers and data scientists. As demonstrated by creator Robert Triebwasser (@robert.triebwasser), these new "superpowers"—driven by the GPT-5.4 "Think Deeper" model—allow you to transform raw data...