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A processor and memory modules on a white surface, illustrating a report on OpenAI serving a frontier model on Cerebras hardware.
AI & ML

OpenAI Is Serving a Frontier Model on Cerebras Silicon at 750 Tokens a Second

The Ultrafast preview runs GPT-5.6 Sol about 14 times faster than standard processing, and not on Nvidia hardware. Latency rather than throughput is what is being sold, and that changes which applications are possible rather than which are affordable.

17 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A long-exposure photograph of a motorway at night, headlights and tail lights drawn into continuous streaks — illustrative of traffic measured in volume rather than by who is driving.
AI & ML

Machine Traffic Passed Human Traffic in May. Cloudflare Had Expected 2027.

Daily AI agent requests rose 1,700 per cent year on year. The crossover is a measurement; the thousand-to-one forecast that came with it is something else.

11 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
An empty meeting room with laptops and papers left on the table — illustrating the corporate division NEC has staffed entirely with AI agents.
AI & ML

NEC Gave a Department Seventeen AI Employees and No Human Ones

NEC has made a formal corporate division staffed entirely by AI agents, with a division head, a board, managers and staff. Humans keep two jobs: final decisions and quality control.

11 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Business

Atlassian Rose a Third on One Quarter. The Number That Matters Is Up 44%.

Atlassian shares rose around a third after fourth-quarter results beat on every line, with cloud revenue accelerating to 31% growth. The figure that matters is remaining performance obligations up 44% to $4.8 billion — contracted future work, and the first substantial evidence against the thesis that AI agents will erode seat-based software.

9 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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AI & ML

Five APAC Markets, Five AI Rulebooks — but They Agree on the One That Matters

Korea has a comprehensive AI law; Australia decided against one. On text and data mining, three of the five markets have quietly converged.

5 Aug 2026 · 9 min read
A woman searching a wall of library card-catalogue drawers, pulling one open — a filing system is only useful when its drawers match what is being filed.
AI & ML

What Am I Actually Choosing Between? We Sorted 1,347 AI Tools by Shape

The usual answer is five neat categories — chat assistants, copilots, command-line agents, autonomous runtimes, model providers. We had 1,347 researched product entries to test that against, so we read a deterministic sample of 200 and labelled every one by shape rather than by subject. Those five categories describe 46% of the market. The biggest shape in it, the single-purpose application, is not among them, and the general chat assistant everybody pictures first turns out to be 2.5% of the corpus. Auditing the entries also found nineteen products listed twice, two of which said so in their own taglines.

2 Aug 2026 · 13 min read
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AI & ML

SEO When the Answer Is Written for You

Here is our own referrer log. In eight weeks and 214,712 page hits, every AI assistant combined sent 59 visits — against 3,108 from search engines. Perplexity beat ChatGPT. Bing punched four times above its weight. And the single most consequential thing you can do about AI search is a robots.txt distinction most tools cannot express, including ours until this week.

1 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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AI & ML

Anthropic Makes Claude Free for US Teachers, and Privacy Experts Question the Route

Anthropic has made premium Claude free for verified US K-12 teachers for a year, bundled with curriculum connectors and agentic tools. Privacy specialists say the direct-to-teacher route sidesteps the district leaders who are actually bound by student-data law.

22 Jul 2026 · 8 min read
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AI & ML

Firecrawl vs Crawl4AI vs Jina Reader vs Browser Use — Getting Web Data Into Your LLM (2026)

Four open-source ways to feed web data to an LLM compared: licenses, self-host parity, pricing bases, robots.txt defaults and MCP support.

21 Jul 2026 · 13 min read
An artist palette thick with mixed paint — five AI image generators, five different licences
AI & ML

Midjourney vs Stable Diffusion vs Flux vs Ideogram vs Leonardo AI: AI Image Generation (2026)

The license fine print separates these five image generators more than image quality does. Pricing, weights and output-ownership clauses, verified July 2026.

21 Jul 2026 · 15 min read
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