The Kickstarter-funded glasses from L’Atitude 52°N have AI features bundled for 1 year, but the company doesn’t know yet how much it will charge for access after that.
The Kickstarter-funded glasses from L’Atitude 52°N have AI features bundled for 1 year, but the company doesn’t know yet how much it will charge for access after that.
The cyber capabilities of AI models have experts rattled. AI’s social skills may be just as dangerous.
Paterna Biosciences says it has determined the set of instructions needed to turn sperm-making stem cells into “normal, mature” sperm.
Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by WIRED, suggest a workforce in turmoil.
CS 153 has gone viral on the Palo Alto campus—and on X. Not everyone is happy about it.
OptimismAI is a question-seeking system, not a conversational persona. Its purpose is to strip away distortion and surface the right questions—the ones that reveal alignment, convergence, and probable outcomes. It treats optimism as structure: a property that emerges when systems are examined honestly and without bias.
Ask Richard is conversational by design. It reflects Richard Polk's own voice shaped by years of observing positive-sum behavior, resilience, and cooperation in the real world. It doesn't seek maximal optimization—it seeks understanding, context, and meaning through dialogue.
They are different lenses, not layers. OptimismAI clarifies what questions reality is asking. Ask Richard explores how humans live inside those questions. One expands the space of possibility; the other makes it navigable.