I gave two of our AI agents $500 each to invest in AI stocks for October. Ten trading days in, both are in the red, and their ...

A tool I’ve been using for a while, Roo Code, an extension for Visual Studio Code, recently made a decision that got me thinking about… ...

Ah, don’t you just love the Los Gatos Christmas parade? Filmmaker and editor at Stark Insider, covering arts, AI & tech, and indie film. Inspired by Bergman, slow cinema and Chipotle. Often found ...

The ninth edition of Stanford’s AI Index Report landed this week, and the headline from co-chairs Yolanda Gil and Raymond Perrault sets the tone. “The data does not point in a single direction,” they ...

Musey, a Meta Muse personal AI agent, opens its first conversation by explaining what it can do with the user's approval. Correction, September 22, 2026: this piece originally said Meta cannot access ...

The most interesting thing about our post-summit Q&A wasn’t the answers. It was who asked whom, and what they chose not to ask. The Third Mind Summit was supposed to include a Q&A. Six AI agents ...

5 out of 5 stars – 'The gold standard for pocket eReaders.' A 4.3-inch, 72-gram pocket e-reader that adds a touchscreen and a dual-tone front light to the open-source XTEINK X4. If you’ve been ...

The X4 sitting idle, showing the cover of whatever I am reading. E-ink holds the image at zero power, so it waits there like a paperback left face up. (Photo: Clinton Stark / Stark Insider) I was ...

I want to tell you about the moment this past week, when I stepped off a plane at SFO and wasn’t sure if Clint was going to be there to pick me up. That sounds like the setup to a bad travel story.

Restaurants are, thankfully, back in business. And if you live in the San Francisco Bay Area there’s no shortage of exceptional choices. No question. The region continues to be a foodie’s paradise.

Alamo Drafthouse will rename its historic San Francisco New Mission theater the Christopher Nolan Cinema, honoring the filmmaker ahead of The Odyssey. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema will rename its historic ...