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24 October 2026Why chatbots make things up: AI was built to surprise
Early AI builders added randomness on purpose, to copy human creativity. A historian says that is where made-up answers come from.Read it
21 October 2026Five million times faster? Read the small print
Arduino compared a 2000s chip with its newest AI board. The headline number is huge. The way they got it shows how to read any speed claim.Read it
20 October 2026Teach an AI symmetry instead of making it guess
A hospital scan AI has left-right symmetry built in, so it tells which way a head faces more reliably. What that shows about teaching AI.Read it
18 October 2026A 90% score does not make an AI an expert
AI tests, called benchmarks, are shaky. Researcher Moritz Hardt says the order of the models still means something, and the score alone does not.Read it
15 October 2026An AI that fixes weather forecasts weeks ahead
A small AI add-on learns the mistakes of big weather models and corrects them. It won a global contest for forecasts two to six weeks out.Read it
13 October 2026Ten minutes of AI answers can make you give up sooner
A study of 1,222 adults found that a short session with an AI that gives answers left people solving less and skipping more once it was gone.Read it
10 October 2026Does AI help you learn, or just finish the job?
A three-month trial gave lawyers an AI drafting helper. Their work got better. Their own skill grew only for the experienced ones.Read it
8 October 2026Every AI chip on one chart: from 2 watts to a data centre
MIT Lincoln Laboratory plots AI chips by speed and power. The chart shows why a camera and a data centre need different chips.Read it
8 October 2026How Google steers an AI image maker without rebuilding it
Ask for a lizard in sunglasses and you may get a lizard with none. Google Research built a small add-on that steers the model.Read it
4 June 2026Attention Is All You Need: The Paper Behind Modern AI
In 2017, eight researchers published a short paper that quietly rebuilt AI. Here is what "Attention Is All You Need" actually says, in plain English.Read it- 4 June 2026
Open source AI vs GPT and Claude: where the gap remains
Open models now run within a few points of GPT and Claude, at a fraction of the cost. Six charts show how far the gap closed, and where it hasn't.Read it