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Alistair Fairweather

Why is Google losing the AI race?

After nearly three decades of global dominance, the company is starting to lose its shine.

The fragility of open source

How a lone coder uncovered a Linux backdoor that could have sent shockwaves through the open source supply chain.

Innovation

Alistair Fairweather

ChatGPT no substitute for human effort

LLMs will improve to the point where they make very few errors of fact, but the errors will still be there.

Technology

Alistair Fairweather

Our beautiful, stupid, AI

Fixing society is harder than tweaking a few lines of code.

Technology

Alistair Fairweather

Passwords of the future

Most people are terrible at thinking up and remembering passwords. Enter passkeys.

Innovation

Alistair Fairweather

Money, not mysticism, behind OpenAI coup

The tech industry in California has a long history of attracting brilliant weirdos and dreamy geniuses.

Technology

Alistair Fairweather

Big tech can’t be trusted with GenAI

The tech barons are still drinking their own Kool-Aid, but most people have lost the taste for it.

Technology

Alistair Fairweather

Next stop automation

Banning driverless trucks in the US was never going to fly.

Technology

Alistair Fairweather

Gambling on games

Video games publishers face an uphill battle, but moves by Epic Games to change distribution channels might make things easier. Just don't think it's all philanthropic.

Business

Alistair Fairweather

The X factor

Reports of the death of X have been greatly exaggerated.

Technology

Alistair Fairweather

Canada vs big tech: who will blink first?

Should Google and Meta have to pay Canadian news websites?

Technology

Alistair Fairweather

AI arrives, and Nvidia’s patience pays dividends

In the middle of a gold rush, the businesses selling shovels are usually the ones that end up getting durably rich.

Innovation

Alistair Fairweather

It’s the end of the world as we know it. Or is it?

AI does not need to attain sentience, or anything close to it, to upend the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

Business

Alistair Fairweather