How machines learned to speak, sing and grow close to us with AI audio. The Song Nobody Sang It was mid-April 2023, shortly after Easter, when a track started circulating on TikTok that sounded like a collaboration between Drake and The Weeknd. The voice was raw, the beat silky, the songwriting polished — everything you’d […]
Lena, 28, a business informatics student from Leipzig, was staring at her phone screen with a problem: a page full of flashcard apps, three open browser tabs with statistics scripts, and a course ending in six weeks. The exam on regression analysis was within reach — and yet she felt like she knew nothing. So
The Great Naming Confusion in the AI Industry Anyone reading technical articles about AI integration these days needs strong nerves and a good memory. A Microsoft blog post explains why Connectors are the key to enterprise AI. An Anthropic post promotes Skills. An OpenAI developer tutorial revolves around Actions. And a Google whitepaper covers Function Calling. At first glance, this
You write to your assistant on WhatsApp: “Check if the invoice has arrived yet.” A few seconds later, an agent on your own computer has received the message, loaded the relevant context, queried a language model, activated a skill, and sent you the answer. That is exactly what OpenClaw does. OpenClaw is not a chatbot
It is a Wednesday evening in March 2023, and Bernd has a problem. In three days he is flying to Lisbon — team building, five colleagues, everything still unorganized. So he opens ChatGPT, the tool that has been electrifying everyone in his company for weeks, and types: “Plan me a three-day team trip to Lisbon.
Imagine sitting in the 1960s in front of a bulky teletype machine. You type: “I am sad.” The machine rattles and responds: “Why do you say that you are sad?” Magic? No — just text fragments following a fixed recipe. Today we hold philosophical debates with AI systems that write code, compose poems, and analyze
There are those strange moments on the internet when you pause, tilt your head, and wonder: “Wait — is this video real?” Between 2016 and today, January 2026, such moments have become daily routine. AI videos carry names like “CCTV clip,” “doorbell camera,” or “glass fruit ASMR.” They show jumping rabbits, cats with banjos, glass
The Moment We Stopped Believing in Images It was a Friday in March 2023, and the internet had a new favorite image: Pope Francis, nestled in a white Balenciaga down jacket, expression serious, hands buried in pockets, like a streetwear model on the way to Milan Fashion Week. The image was so good that even
Welcome to my first post! This website has just been set up fresh with WordPress — if you want to know how I did it, check out my step-by-step guide. The three colleagues Tanja (the expert — explains how things should be done), Bernd (the self-proclaimed “expert” — who always knows better), and Ulf (the