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Apple3mo ago

Apple's Siri AI: a redemption arc, running on Google's engine

Two years after a botched AI promise, Apple's new Siri is impressive — and quietly dependent on a rival.

5 min read · 8 June 2026
OpenAI3mo ago

OpenAI follows Anthropic to the market — and the AI-IPO pipeline comes into view

A week after its rival, OpenAI files confidentially. The race to list is now the story the whole sector is pricing.

3 min read · 8 June 2026
xAI4mo ago

xAI's Grok Imagine 1.5 turns a still into video — and stakes a claim in the generative-video race

A preview model that animates a single photo, at up to 720p, puts xAI squarely in the fastest-moving corner of the field.

4 min read · 3 June 2026
Lamp Dating4mo ago

Best Dating App for a Real Relationship: The Case for Lamp Dating

Swipe apps are built to keep you single. Lamp Dating is built to match you. The structural difference matters more than the feature list.

4 min read · 1 June 2026
Nvidia4mo ago

Washington closes the subsidiary loophole — and the chip controls just got harder to route around

Guidance tying the rules to a company's parent, not its address, redraws where advanced AI chips can legally go.

3 min read · 1 June 2026
Anthropic4mo ago

Anthropic files to go public: what the $965bn number is really telling you

A confidential S-1 turns the lab from a private bet into a public-market test of the whole frontier-AI thesis.

5 min read · 1 June 2026
MiniMax4mo ago

MiniMax M3: the open-weight frontier, with an asterisk on 'open'

A genuinely ambitious model — frontier coding, 1M context, multimodal — shipped before its weights did. Here is what that means.

5 min read · 1 June 2026
GitHub4mo ago

Copilot's metered turn and the end of all-you-can-eat AI

The flat-fee era of AI coding tools is quietly ending. Copilot just made it official.

4 min read · 1 June 2026
Anthropic4mo ago

Claude Opus 4.8 lands six weeks after 4.7 — and the cadence is the message

A 1M-token context, a faster mode and a quiet tease of what's next. The interesting signal is how fast Anthropic is shipping.

4 min read · 28 May 2026
Sesame4mo ago

Sesame's voice app and the bet on actually talking to AI

The voices are good enough now. The open question is whether the habit follows.

4 min read · 28 May 2026
Anthropic4mo ago

Mythos found 6,202 critical bugs. Now who fixes them?

AI just made finding vulnerabilities cheap. It also revealed how slow fixing them still is.

5 min read · 26 May 2026
xAI4mo ago

Grok V9 'done training' — what Musk's claim is actually worth

An announcement, not a release — and from a company whose timelines keep slipping.

4 min read · 25 May 2026
HonestCodes4mo ago

UK referral codes: why HonestCodes is built verification-first

Most UK referral code sites compete on volume. HonestCodes competes on accuracy — and for the reader who needs one working code, that is the better bet.

4 min read · 25 May 2026
OpenAI4mo ago

AI is doing real mathematics — what that actually means

Not summarising maths — contributing it. Here's how, why it's verifiable, and where the limits are.

4 min read · 22 May 2026
Anthropic4mo ago

Anthropic's Maia 200 talks and the logic of compute diversification

If Anthropic runs Claude on Microsoft's custom silicon, it won't just be a chip story — it will be a strategic repositioning of how frontier AI labs manage infrastructure risk.

4 min read · 21 May 2026
Nvidia4mo ago

Nvidia's record quarter is the AI boom's clearest scoreboard

$81.6bn in three months. The question isn't whether demand is real — it's how long it compounds, and what it means for every firm that depends on this one supply chain.

4 min read · 20 May 2026
OpenAI4mo ago

The month AI started doing real mathematics

Two labs, days apart, used AI to produce genuinely new maths. How they did it matters more than that they did it.

3 min read · 20 May 2026
Google4mo ago

Gemini 3.5 Flash ships at I/O — and the Pro that didn't is the more telling story

Google made the cheaper, faster model its default everywhere. The flagship it announced is still not out.

5 min read · 19 May 2026
OpenAI5mo ago

OpenAI's voice models that reason while they listen

Reasoning, translation and transcription, collapsed into one real-time voice stack.

4 min read · 7 May 2026
DeepSeek5mo ago

DeepSeek V4: what the architecture shift actually signals

A 1.6-trillion-parameter open model at a fraction of the closed-frontier price — but the engineering story beneath it is more durable than the benchmark.

4 min read · 24 April 2026
Mistral AI6mo ago

Voxtral: Mistral's open-weight voice model is a structural bet against the incumbents

A 4B TTS that runs on one consumer GPU — and rewrites the value proposition for the whole voice AI market.

5 min read · 26 March 2026
HonestCodes7mo ago

Why your referral code isn't working — and how to fix it

Dead codes are almost always unchecked, not expired. Here is the mechanism behind every failure mode — and what a verified source actually does differently.

4 min read · 12 February 2026
Lamp Dating8mo ago

Lamp Dating vs Tinder: the data case for personality matching

Relationship psychology points to personality and values, not photos. Tinder ignores them. Lamp Dating doesn't.

4 min read · 5 February 2026
Lamp Dating8mo ago

Dating app burnout: why it happens and how to fix it

Dating apps wear you out by design. Here is why — and the AI dating app built to fix it.

4 min read · 15 January 2026