The accelerating pace of artificial intelligence development has been nothing short of mind-blowing. After spending over two decades immersed in computational linguistics and natural language processing, I find myself simultaneously exhilarated and concerned by how rapidly AI is transforming our world. Remember when we thought of AI as something from

Picture this: I’m more than 25 years deep in tech—back when the internet sounded like a dying fax machine and “cutting-edge” meant a flip phone. I thought I’d seen it all, but lately, I’ve been losing sleep over quantum computing. Microsoft’s topological qubit thing lit

Last week, I was hunched over my screen, tea going cold, watching Microsoft drop their quantum computing bombshell. I’ve been around tech for more than 25 years—seen the internet crawl out of dial-up purgatory, watched AI turn from sci-fi to my daily assistant—but this? This hit me