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Distributed Cognition: The Real AI Revolution You’re Missing
Let me tell you a weird story: we don’t know how to build the Space Shuttle anymore. Seriously. NASA built the Shuttle with some of the...
Rich Washburn
4 days ago3 min read
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Welcome to the Great AI Efficiency Era: Why Your Skills Matter More Than Ever
It’s the best of times—and the worst of times. AI is accelerating faster than ever. Models are getting better, smarter, and cheaper by...
Rich Washburn
4 days ago3 min read
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From Tools to Teammates: How AI Is Rapidly Evolving into Collaborative Partners
A few months ago, I wrote about how artificial intelligence seems to flourish not in perfectly ordered systems or pure randomness—but in...
Rich Washburn
6 days ago3 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
6 days ago3 min read
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Postcards from the Exhale: Tennessee
The speeches were over. The crowd had dispersed. The adrenaline from photographing one of the most high-energy events I’ve covered in a...
Rich Washburn
Apr 92 min read
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Lens on Liberty: Road Trip to Tennessee for the 917 Society
There are road trips, and then there are missions. This one started in Florida and ended in Tennessee, but it wasn’t just about the...
Rich Washburn
Apr 93 min read
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Possibility Machines: How Nvidia Built the Future Without Knowing What It Was For
Most companies chase a vision. Nvidia built tools —and let the future find them. This is the story of how a scrappy graphics card startup...
Rich Washburn
Apr 84 min read
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Robin Hood Economics: Is Trump Really Crashing the Market to Save the Middle Class?
Look, I’m not an economic guru. I don’t have a Bloomberg terminal duct-taped to my fridge, and I didn’t minor in Financial Alchemy at the...
Rich Washburn
Apr 84 min read
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Real-Life Direwolves? Not Quite. But Science Just Got Dangerously Close.
“ Life, uh... finds a way. ” Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park Yeah, well, apparently so do biotech startups with millions in funding, a...
Rich Washburn
Apr 74 min read
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Full AI Actors, Ghibli Dreams, and GPT-5: The AI Tsunami Is Here
Remember when the biggest tech news of the week was a new iPhone color? Yeah—those were simpler times. Now, it feels like the AI arms...
Rich Washburn
Apr 65 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 64 min read
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"Ahead of the Fleet"
This morning, I got a call from Frank—a longtime Navy insider and someone who doesn’t pick up the phone just to make small talk. He was...
Rich Washburn
Apr 62 min read
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Tokenization & AI Factories: Welcome to the Age of Intelligence Assembly Lines
Picture this: You walk into a high-tech factory—not the greasy, clanging type from old documentaries, but a temple of glass, LEDs, and...
Rich Washburn
Apr 35 min read
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NVIDIA’s Rubin Ultra & Feynman Architectures: A Defining Moment for the Future of AI Infrastructure
Let’s set the scene: you're not just building an AI system anymore—you're designing infrastructure for a new kind of intelligence...
Rich Washburn
Apr 34 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 282 min read
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This Week in Tech: GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5, and the Anime Apocalypse
Well, that escalated quickly. This week in tech felt less like a news cycle and more like a full-blown time warp. In a few short days, we...
Rich Washburn
Mar 283 min read
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When Quantum Gets Biblical: Are We Ready for the Techno-Spiritual Revolution?
So a priest, a rabbi, and an AI engineer walk into a bar. The bartender looks up and says, “What is this, a joke?” And the AI engineer...
Rich Washburn
Mar 233 min read
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MANUS AI: China’s AGI Contender That’s Forcing OpenAI to Look Over Its Shoulder
Let’s get right to it: Manus AI is the latest agent out of China that’s stirring up serious noise in the AI world. Launched in March...
Rich Washburn
Mar 214 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 124 min read
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A Hardware Store, a Coffee Shop, and a Secret Country Club Walk into a Bar… (But Seriously, This Place is Magic)
I love discovering places that are more than they appear. The little out-of-the-way gems that turn out to be so much more than a dot on...
Rich Washburn
Mar 74 min read
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Dude, Apple is building JARVIS. And I am so f’ing down for it!
I mean, we’ve been stuck with these dumb voice assistants for way too long—Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant… they’re all basically glorified...
Rich Washburn
Feb 242 min read
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104 Years of Service, Sacrifice, and Celebration
Some moments aren’t just meant to be captured in photographs—they deserve to be etched into memory, shared in words, and honored by those...
Rich Washburn
Feb 213 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 214 min read
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Microsoft’s Majorana 1: A Quantum Breakthrough Worth Paying Attention To
I’ll admit, I don’t usually get overly excited about Microsoft’s latest and greatest. They’ve got a knack for hyping up technology that...
Rich Washburn
Feb 193 min read
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