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Richard Sutton, widely considered the father of reinforcement learning, is making waves with a blunt assessment of where AI is headed. In a new video interview, Sutton argues that large language models are a dead end — a striking claim from someone who helped lay the mathematical foundations of modern machine learning. Whether the field listens is another question.
Meanwhile, the AI coding boom is drawing some pointed skepticism from the people actually writing software. Moshe Sambol of Lightrun told The Register that management enthusiasm for AI tools has simply outrun developers' ability to use them well. His phrase — pain waiting to happen — captures a tension many engineering teams are quietly living with right now.
And on the hardware side, a remarkable origin story is getting its due. Cerebras Systems, which pulled off two thousand twenty six's biggest tech IPO so far, once burned through eight million dollars a month chasing a chip that many in the industry believed was physically impossible to build. The gamble paid off, but the margin for error was razor thin for years.
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