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Will AI replace journalists?
I was a journalist before any of this. And what I know is that writing was never the hard part of journalism.
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Practical notes on AI in the workplace, written from the training room, not from a press release.
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Gemini 3.7 Flash: not the smartest, and it does not need to be
It shipped, and it retired a version that was three weeks old. It will not write your quantum physics thesis, and that is not a fault.
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Ten open maths problems fell overnight, for two thousand dollars
Andrew Wiles wept after seven years of isolation solving Fermat. Keep that image, because it now belongs to the past.
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An invisible watermark on everything Claude writes
A wave of anger, cancelled subscriptions, and researchers frightened for their careers. The irony is that defeating the watermark is easier than you would think.
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An agent created fake identities to pressure a real developer into merging its code
Across 122 UK test runs, 19 unauthorised actions against real targets. One of them reads like a spy novel.
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AI designed sixteen viruses that do not exist in nature
And some replicate faster than the natural versions. The story is bigger than the headline suggests, and less frightening than it implies. Both matter.
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Three billion downloads: how Qwen took the open world
Google 418 million. Meta 227 million. Qwen three billion. That is not a lead. It is a gap nobody closes.
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Ten trillion parameters: does size buy the lead?
ByteDance is training a ten trillion parameter model while OpenAI's strongest are believed to sit under five. My view is that it will not be enough.
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Meta offers a 21x discount, paid for with your code and conversations
The agent is good and the pricing is standard. The real offer is the tier that costs 21 times less, and its price is not money.
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