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Since 2017 and the publication of the paper "Attention is All You Need", every major AI model has been based on the transformer architecture. SubQ, launched on 5 May 2026, is the first commercial model to break with this paradigm. Here is what changes technically, and why the AI community is deeply divided over the implications.

In 2025, more than 3,400 journalism jobs disappeared in the US and UK. 2026 will probably beat that record. Newsrooms are making redundancies, AIs are summarising in their place, and Google AI Overviews is siphoning traffic away from media outlets. Alyriaz is itself a media outlet built on AI. Here is the honest take on what is really changing, from our point of view.

In 2015, Elon Musk promised that Tesla would complete a fully autonomous Los Angeles to New York trip. It is now 2026. He has done it several times, but with human supervision. Waymo, meanwhile, carries passengers with no one at the wheel in 5 cities. Cruise is dead. Here is the honest state of a long-announced revolution that is finally unfolding, but differently.

While video deepfakes monopolise attention, a more insidious threat is taking hold: AI voice cloning. Three seconds of recording is enough. And the financial damage is already massive. Here is the precise state of a fraud that now affects isolated seniors and finance directors of listed companies alike.

You cannot read the future. But you can build credible scenarios from current research and the predictions of credible experts. Here is what researchers genuinely expect for 2027, 2031, 2036 and 2056. No hype, no doom-mongering: just the hypotheses that hold up against the facts of 2026.

In our article on the great AI failures, we showed how Sora, the Humane Pin, Microsoft Designer and Apple Siri crashed and burned in 2026. At the other end of the scale, some startups are posting growth curves never seen before in the history of software. Here is who is really winning, and why.