Models & Benchmarksbrief
Multimodal AI: reading documents, images and voice
What 'multimodal' means in practice for business documents, scanned pages, images and recorded audio, with the vendor limits to check.
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Writing & Insights
Thoughts on AI, engineering, and building
Practical writing on AI agents, automation, and the engineering behind them, for the people who run the business.
Models & Benchmarksbrief
Synthetic data for testing AI systems: when it helps and when it misleads
Generated test cases can cover rare scenarios and bootstrap evals, but they can also mirror the generator's blind spots. A short checklist for using them well.
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Hardware & Infrastructurehardware-breakdown
On-device AI in 2026: what NPUs and unified memory actually do
NPU ratings from Qualcomm, AMD and Intel compared, plus the memory constraint that decides which models can run locally on a laptop.
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Harnesses & Toolingnews-analysis
Multi-agent frameworks converge: Microsoft's 1.0 and OpenAI's SDK overhaul
Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 and OpenAI's Agents SDK update landed within two weeks. What they share, where they differ, and what to ask before you commit.
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Economics & Pricingexplainer
Reasoning models: what 'thinking' costs and what it buys
Reasoning models spend extra tokens working before they answer. A plain-English look at what that buys, how it is billed, and where it is not worth it.
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Models & Benchmarksnews-analysis
Q1 2026 frontier models compared: what the vendor numbers do and do not tell you
Four flagship releases landed within a month. We compare price, features and vendor-reported results, and why the benchmark numbers are not like-for-like.
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Security & Governanceexplainer
Shadow AI: why bans fail and what a one-page policy should say
Roughly half of employees in a survey reported in January 2026 use unapproved AI tools. A short, usable policy beats a ban; here is what it should cover.
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Hardware & Infrastructurenews-analysis
NVIDIA GTC 2026: what was announced, what ships, and what is roadmap
NVIDIA's GTC 2026 announcements sorted into available now, partner availability in late 2026, and roadmap, with performance claims marked as vendor-stated.
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Enterprise Adoptionbrief
AI is arriving in the spreadsheet. Is the spreadsheet still the right system?
AI assistants now build and edit spreadsheet models directly. That speeds up the sheet, and sharpens the question of which processes should have outgrown it.
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Enterprise Adoptiondeep-dive
Healthcare administration is the AI use case with the clearest numbers
Prior authorization and claims paperwork are repetitive and measurable. Published figures show where non-clinical AI fits in healthcare administration.
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Hardware & Infrastructurenews-analysis
Before NVIDIA GTC 2026: what is already claimed, and what buyers should check
GTC opens next week. Here is what NVIDIA has already said about Vera Rubin and its agent software, which claims are vendor-stated, and what to watch.
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Models & Benchmarksbrief
Small language models: what a 9-billion-parameter model can and cannot do
Independent scores for Alibaba's new sub-10B Qwen3.5 models show real gains and a clear weakness: small models still make things up.
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