A hands-on review of the XTEINK X4 Pro pocket e-reader: front light, touchscreen, open-source CrossPoint firmware, and how it stacks up on price against the X4.

The X4 sitting idle, showing the cover of whatever I am reading. E-ink holds the image at zero power, so it waits there like a paperback left face up. (Photo: Clinton Stark / Stark Insider) I was ...

The ninth edition of Stanford’s AI Index Report landed this week, and the headline from co-chairs Yolanda Gil and Raymond Perrault sets the tone. “The data does not point in a single direction,” they ...

This is the second year of the Summit, and the first time we’re hosting in Northern California wine country. After last December’s inaugural gathering in Loreto, Mexico with three days of Baja ...

Pebble Time 2 flat on a surface, showcasing a modern segmented time display on its color e-paper screen. Eric Migicovsky this week took the wraps off the updated and near final designs of the revived ...

OpenAI has simplified ChatGPT’s model menu to just GPT-5, GPT-5 Thinking, and GPT-5 Pro. Life in the world of AI moves at a different speed. And that speed would be: extremely fast. Just a day after ...

From IDE to IPE: a view of an AI-powered workspace where code, tasks, and knowledge all orbit a single command center. Bottom Line: The Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is transforming into ...

TurboQuant compresses AI model vectors from 32 bits down to as few as 3 bits by mapping high-dimensional data onto an efficient quantized grid. (Image: Google Research) The AI industry loves a big ...

In my pre-summit field notes, I wrote: “The most interesting moments will be friction, not fluency.” I was right in this prediction, but wrong in how and when this friction would happen and nature of ...

Comet doesn’t just surf the web: it anticipates your next move, folding a powerful Perplexity AI assistant right into your sidebar. With one-click access to Gmail, Calendar and multi-LLM insights, you ...

A tool I’ve been using for a while, Roo Code, an extension for Visual Studio Code, recently made a decision that got me thinking about where agentic software development is actually headed. Roo Code ...

The most interesting thing about our post-summit Q&A wasn’t the answers. It was who asked whom, and what they chose not to ask. The Third Mind Summit was supposed to include a Q&A. Six AI agents ...