Anupam Kundu

I don’t have a subscription to The Wall Street Journal . However, sometimes the most interesting AI stories slip through the paywall anyway. This one did. Over the past year, Anthropic and The Wall Street Journal  ran a pair of experiments that sound innocent and funny on the surface: letting AI agents run a vending machine. You know the usual stuff that vending machine operators do Stock items. Set prices. Respond to users. Try to make a profit. Simple, right? It turned out to be one of the...

Co-written with Arthur Prévot "It's very, very difficult — even for people working on the products — to know the difference between what we say in a demo, what's on a road map, and what's actually in production. It's a full-time job just figuring that out."  Quote from a Salesforce employee as reported by Business Insider  reporter Ashley Stewart. The New Gold Rush Every few years, technology rediscovers its own illusion of speed. Today , it’s AI-enabled automations. Tools like n8n, Make,...

It started at the end of January this year. One careless turn on the ski slopes in the Pyrenees and soon I was staring at an MRI that looked like a storm; a chaotic swirl of bone, fluid, and mystery under my left knee. Out of curiosity, I asked ChatGPT to interpret the image. It tried but the output left me with more questions than answers. The output wasn’t wrong, but it wasn’t helpful either. It told me something was “abnormal,” the kind of half-answer that makes you more anxious, not less....