AI News.
AI is the fastest-moving beat in tech, and the one most buried in hype. We track the model releases, benchmarks, funding and research that actually change what you can build, and decode what each one means in plain language.
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The Quiet Rise of Small Language Models
The race isn't only about who has the biggest model anymore. Increasingly, the interesting work is about how small you can go without losing the magic.
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Tokens, Not Words: How an AI Actually Reads Your Prompt
When you type a sentence to an AI, it doesn't see words the way you do. It sees tokens, and that small fact explains a lot of the model's quirks.
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Why AI Models Hallucinate, and What Actually Helps
The most frustrating thing about a language model is its habit of stating false things with total confidence. The cause is baked into how these systems work.
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The Context Window Is the New RAM
Every conversation with an AI has a memory limit. Understanding that limit, the context window, explains why your long chats start to drift.
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Multimodal Models: When AI Stops Being Text-Only
For years, language AI lived in a world of pure text. The shift to models that also see images and hear audio is quietly more important than it sounds.
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What an AI Agent Actually Is, and What It Can't Do Yet
Everyone is talking about AI agents, but the term is fuzzy. Here is what actually separates an agent from a chatbot, and why the demos run ahead of reality.
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What an AI Humanizer Is, and Whether It Actually Works
AI humanizers promise to rewrite machine text so it slips past detectors. They work to a point, but the whole arms race misses what actually matters.
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How AI Image Generators Actually Work
Type a sentence, get a picture. Behind that magic is a surprisingly understandable process called diffusion, plus a thorny question about the data it learned from.
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Can an AI Lawyer Replace a Real One?
AI legal tools can draft, research, and review faster than any human. They also invent fake cases and answer to no one, which is exactly why they can't replace a lawyer.
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How to Actually Compare LLMs (Beyond the Leaderboards)
Benchmark leaderboards make picking a language model look simple. For real use, they are nearly the wrong question. Here is what to measure instead.
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How AI Video Generators Work, and Where They Still Fail
AI can now turn a sentence into video. The leap from images to moving pictures is harder than it looks, and the cracks reveal exactly what these models do and don't grasp.
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Frontier AI Access Is Quietly Becoming a Government Decision
The U.S. will vet who can use OpenAI's GPT-5.6, and a similar gate just appeared around a new Anthropic model. Access to the best AI is shifting from a purchase to a permission.
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How Transformers Quietly Took Over Machine Learning
Before 2017, AI research was a zoo of specialized architectures. One paper collapsed most of them into a single idea, attention, and the field never looked back.
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Do AI Detectors Actually Work?
AI detectors promise to tell human writing from machine writing. The uncomfortable truth is that they are unreliable, and the reasons are built into how they work.
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An Open-Source, AI-First Take on Notion Lands
OpenKnowledge pitches an open-source, AI-native alternative to Notion and Obsidian, betting that 'own your notes' and 'AI on your notes' aren't a contradiction.
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Making Images With Oscillators, Not Just Diffusion
Un-0 generates images using coupled oscillators, a reminder that the dominance of diffusion models doesn't mean the method is settled.