How to Read a Model Release Without Being Sold To
Every launch comes with a chart showing the new model winning. Here is what the chart leaves out, and which parts of the announcement are worth your attention.
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Risk Tiers: The Shape Almost Every AI Regulation Is Taking
Jurisdictions differ on the detail and agree on the structure: obligations scale with what the system is used for, not with how it was built.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Explained Properly
The idea is simple and the failure modes are not. Most disappointing implementations fail at retrieval, not at generation.
What a Longer Context Window Actually Buys You
Context windows have grown enormously. The ability to use everything in them has not grown at the same rate, and the gap matters.
Why Models Make Things Up, and What Genuinely Reduces It
Confident invention is a consequence of what these systems are trained to do. It can be reduced substantially and it cannot be eliminated by prompting.