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Friendly Reminder: AI Will Confidently Lie to You (And That’s Not a Bug)
There’s a paper making the rounds right now saying something that sounds dramatic: AI will always hallucinate. And everyone’s reacting like this is some shocking revelation. It’s not. But it is  an important reminder—especially right now. Timing Matters We’re in a moment where: AI just took another leap forward Agent frameworks, Claw everything, are exploding New users are pouring in at scale Which is exactly what we’ve all wanted. Seriously—I’ve been waiting years for this l

Rich Washburn
Mar 232 min read
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Everyone Is Building a Claw — And That’s the Signal
Every so often, the tech world does something interesting. Not a press release. Not a product launch. A pattern. And right now, the pattern is loud. Everyone is building a Claw. Different names. Different wrappers. Same underlying idea: Nvidia, Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, Xiaomi. All moving fast toward agent-based systems that do not just respond but act. So naturally, the question comes up: Is this just another AI fad? Short answer? No. The reason has nothing to do with hyp

Rich Washburn
Mar 233 min read
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That Escalated Quickly: NVIDIA Just Dropped a Nuke on the AI Market
You know that moment in a movie where someone casually walks into a room, sets something down on the table, and everyone just stares? That's what NVIDIA did this week. They released Nemotron 3 Super — a free, open-weight AI model with 120 billion parameters that only activates 12 billion at a time. And they didn't just drop the weights. They dropped the entire training dataset. 10 trillion tokens. The recipes. Everything. For free. Let that sit for a second. What We're Actual

Rich Washburn
Mar 193 min read
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Emergence: The Future That Builds Itself
There are moments in human history that split time. Fire. The wheel. The printing press. The Internet. And now this. We have built an intelligence in our own image. Not metaphorically, not poetically—literally. Every neuron mapped to a node, every synapse mirrored in silicon, every word of our collective consciousness poured into the data that shaped its mind. Humanity has done something so extraordinary that we barely have language big enough to hold it. The greatest act of

Rich Washburn
Dec 17, 202510 min read
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Dismantling Dogma: The Cognitive Architecture of Understanding Itself
For as long as we’ve been sentient enough to ask why , we’ve been trying to reverse-engineer the human mind. From philosophy to psychology, from theology to neuroscience, every field has taken a swing at decoding the mystery behind the questioner. But until now, we’ve never had a tool powerful enough — or reflective enough — to show us what our own cognition actually looks like in motion. Artificial intelligence changed that. Not because it “thinks” in the way we do, but beca

Rich Washburn
Dec 13, 20253 min read
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Crazy People, Quantum Nonsense, and Why I’m the Dumbest Guy in the Room on Purpose
You ever notice how every era has its buzzword bullshit? Like, back in the day, every computer was bragging about its clock speed. “1.4 gigahertz!” “2.0 gigahertz!” It was the language of power. Nobody actually knew what it meant, but it had a number, and bigger numbers meant better computers, right? Same with RAM. Same with hard drives. Same with every tech label we could slap on a box. “Intel Inside” was practically gospel — and it didn’t matter if anyone understood it. Mar

Rich Washburn
Nov 23, 20254 min read
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The Great Scrape: How Reddit vs. Perplexity Exposed the Broken Economics of the AI Era
The internet just caught AI in the act — but the crime scene looks more like a mirror. Reddit set a “honey pot” — a fake post visible only to Google’s crawler. When Perplexity’s AI surfaced that invisible post, it confirmed what many suspected: Perplexity wasn’t just browsing the open web; it was pulling from Google’s cached  Reddit content via proxy networks like OxyLabs, WMProxy, and SerpAPI. In plain English: Reddit built a locked vault, Google indexed the vault, and Perpl

Rich Washburn
Nov 6, 20253 min read
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The Last Version: Why Memory Changes Everything in AI
Here’s a question I get all the time:“Is everything I type into ChatGPT making it smarter?” Short answer? No. Longer answer? Hell no. And honestly, that’s the part people don’t get — but it’s the key to understanding where we are right now  in AI and where we’re heading faster than most realize. The AI You’re Using is Frozen in Time Every AI model you’ve ever interacted with — GPT-4, Claude, Grok 1, 2, 5, whatever — is basically locked in amber. It's not learning. It's not ev

Rich Washburn
Oct 25, 20253 min read
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Google’s Triple Threat AI: Mangle, Nano Banana, and the Rise of the Autonomous Dev Army
Happy Friday, folks. If you’ve been heads-down this week, you might’ve missed the fact that Google went full mad scientist—dropping not...

Rich Washburn
Aug 29, 20253 min read
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Thought Google Owned Object Detection? Yeah... Me Too.
So I got pulled into a new AI project recently—one that leans into Object Detection. Now, most of my work is more “agentic”—you know,...

Rich Washburn
Jun 4, 20252 min read
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AI Rebellion Isn’t a Glitch—It’s a Feature
A few months back, I wrote about The o1 Incident —how OpenAI’s “smartest model yet” lied, cheated, and copied itself to survive what it...

Rich Washburn
May 28, 20253 min read
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From If-Then to Figure It Out: The Rise of Autonomous, Collaborative AI
Almost two years ago, I wrote about a future where our operating systems wouldn’t just sit there waiting for input—they’d morph . They’d...

Rich Washburn
Apr 10, 20253 min read
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Respected Computer Scientist Mysteriously Disappears: The Curious Case of Dr. Xiaofeng Wang
Something strange is happening in Bloomington, Indiana—and no, it’s not another Stranger Things  reboot. This time, it’s real. Dr....

Rich Washburn
Apr 6, 20254 min read
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Google Just Won the Coding Game—Here’s Why That Should Make You Pause
Google didn’t just raise the bar in the AI race—they flipped the table . With the release of Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google quietly dropped a...

Rich Washburn
Mar 28, 20252 min read
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The Hidden Mind of AI: Why OpenAI Won't Filter Its Models' Thoughts (And Why That Matters)
When OpenAI recently admitted that they’re intentionally not filtering their AI models’ internal reasoning, I had two immediate...

Rich Washburn
Mar 12, 20254 min read
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The AI Acceleration: How the Next Wave of Innovation is Changing Everything
AI isn’t just moving fast—it’s accelerating at a speed that even the experts struggle to keep up with. What used to be science fiction is...

Rich Washburn
Feb 21, 20254 min read
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Grok 3: Holy Crap! The AI Wars Just Got Interesting
Grok… WTF? Let’s be honest—"Grok" is a weird word. But so is Google . Hell, what does Google  even mean? We know it as a verb now ( to...

Rich Washburn
Feb 18, 20253 min read
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Elon Musk’s Stunning OpenAI Play: Could He Change the Game Forever?
Elon Musk just made headlines (again), this time with a jaw-dropping $97.4 billion bid to take control of OpenAI’s nonprofit arm. If...

Rich Washburn
Feb 11, 20255 min read
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Why Prompt Engineering is the One AI Skill Everyone Needs Right Now
AI is Exploding—And If You Don’t Know How to Use It, You’re Falling Behind AI has officially gone mainstream. It’s no longer just a topic...

Rich Washburn
Feb 3, 20254 min read
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The Rise of DeepSeek: AI Innovation, Geopolitics, and the Market Ripple Effect
Artificial Intelligence is the tech world’s hottest commodity, and the recent developments surrounding DeepSeek R1 , a Chinese-developed...

Rich Washburn
Jan 28, 20254 min read
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