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  1. · Vision

    Can AI have style?

    Without artists to guide it, AI produces images that all look the same, say filmmakers. So what is a style?
  2. · Applications

    Learning a language with AI: the method that works

    AI can become the conversation partner that everyone learning a language lacks. A five-step method, and its limits.
  3. · Society

    Hollywood takes on tech bosses

    Andrew Garfield plays Sam Altman, Jeremy Strong Mark Zuckerberg. At the cinema, the central figure of AI is no longer a machine, but a boss.
  4. · Society

    Will students' essays train AI?

    Turnitin wanted to be able to use student papers for its AI tools. Cambridge refused at first, and the software backed down. What that tells us.
  5. · Vision

    Bluffing: is it lying?

    An AI bluffs better than Stratego champions. At the game table, that's allowed. But where does bluffing end and lying begin?
  6. · Models

    An AI beats the world's best Stratego player

    Ataraxos beat the best Stratego player 15 games to 1. A game of bluff that even DeepMind had not managed to master.
  7. · Applications

    Making your first AI video: the guide

    Want to create a short video with AI? The simple steps to get a clean result, without spending all night on it or paying for nothing.
  8. · Vision

    He ate a piece of work made by an AI. Was he right to be angry?

    A student has been arrested for eating an AI-generated artwork in protest. We examine what this anger expresses, what is justified about it, and where it is aimed at the wrong target.
  9. · Vision

    What does it mean to create, when everything already exists?

    Is building on the work of others creating? We examine this question through the economic shift currently under way, and through what the history of art and technology has to say about it.
  10. · Society

    Cloudflare blocks mixed-use AI crawlers by default

    Cloudflare's policy of blocking AI crawlers by default, which conflates indexing and training, has come into force. We explain the mechanism and what it changes in the balance of power with publishers.
  11. · Models

    Suno v6: models built on licensed music, and more lawsuits than a year ago

    Suno launched on 9 September a family of three models built with Warner, BMG and Believe, while retiring the old ones. We analyse this shift towards licensing and the disputes that continue.
  12. · Models

    ChatGPT Images 2.5: three billion images a week, and a shift towards editing

    OpenAI has released ChatGPT Images 2.5 with two models for developers, halved latency, and gains focused on editing. We analyse this shift and what it targets.
  13. · Explainers

    How does an AI transcribe speech?

    Speech recognition turns a continuous signal into words. We explain the mechanism, why certain situations remain difficult, and how to get better results.
  14. · Models

    Transcription drops to ten cents an hour

    Microsoft has released a speech recognition model at $0.10 per hour of audio, down 72% in five months, covering sixty languages. We analyse what this collapse in costs makes possible.
  15. · Models

    An Arabic model with 428 billion parameters, built on Chinese weights

    A Saudi lab has released a 428-billion-parameter model for Arabic, built on Chinese open weights. We analyse what this combination reveals about the new geography of AI.
  16. · Society

    Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over song lyrics, targeting founders personally

    Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic and its founders over the use of song lyrics in training. We analyse the strategy and what the books precedent changes.
  17. · Society

    The languages the big models ignore

    State-of-the-art models perform poorly in most of the world's languages. We explain why, what it costs hundreds of millions of people, and why local players are stepping in.
  18. · Society

    Thomson Reuters builds its own model that only talks about law

    Thomson Reuters has announced its first proprietary model, trained from an open base on decades of in-house legal content. We analyse what this move reveals about the value of specialised data.
  19. · Vision

    What is a text "about oneself"?

    The question of the authenticity of a text written with assistance is not settled by a percentage. What matters is examining what makes a production belong to someone, and why the answer depends on what is expected of it.
  20. · Explainers

    Can an AI have an idea that no one has had before?

    A benchmark published in August 2026 measures models' ability to generate a scientific hypothesis by stripping away anything they might have memorised. The results suggest a real ceiling. We explain the protocol and what it reveals.

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