Chris Rueckert

The Great Library of Alexandria While historians debate the exact details, the fire that spread from the Egyptian harbor into Alexandria during Julius Caesar’s campaign in 48 BCE is widely believed to have damaged or destroyed parts of the Great Library, resulting in a significant loss of classical knowledge. The battle of Alexandria in 48 … Read more

The AI landscape is evolving at a head-spinning pace. Almost every week, major tech players building AI drop a new model or feature that grabs headlines. While there’s a lot of hype in the AI community around benchmark performance = which collectively measures different areas of problem-solving and general intelligence in AI models – it … Read more

Google’s April 9th release of Agent-to-Agent (A2A) may be a bigger deal than most people realize. A2A addresses the challenge faced by companies training multiple GPT or RAG AI models for distinct tasks, enabling these models to communicate and collectively process workflows. This new workflow efficiency will create intriguing near-term capabilities, such as seamlessly connecting a … Read more

One can wonder who was the first person to look at the stars and ask the existential question: Are we alone? Humanity has long felt a sense of isolation and difference from other animal species that share our earth. It’s not solely due to our ability to use language to communicate. Humans don’t have a monopoly on … Read more

Like a pressure drop on a barometer or a sudden gust of wind foreshadowing a storm, the signs are here – a shift in the cultural climate is coming. A lifetime spent observing technology revolutions has primed me to recognize these signs clearly. I’ve witnessed the analog technologies of my childhood replaced by efficient digital … Read more