Insights
Our take on what is actually happening in AI.
New models, privacy developments, product launches and the occasional strong opinion. Short, clear and written for people who use AI rather than benchmark it.
Latest · AI News · 18 August 2026 · 4 min read
OpenAI Just Released Its Latest Model. Here Is What Actually Matters.
Benchmark charts move a few points. The interesting changes are further down the release notes.
Read the piece11 August 2026
Models · 4 min readClaude's Latest Update Is More Important Than It Looks
Long-horizon reliability is a quieter feature than raw intelligence, and it changes more about daily use.
4 August 2026
Opinion · 5 min readWhy Everyone Is Suddenly Talking About AI Agents
Agents are not new. What changed is that models got reliable enough to be trusted with more than one step.
28 July 2026
Models · 4 min readThere Still Isn't One “Best” AI Model
The leaderboard changes every few months and none of it survives contact with what you actually do all day.
21 July 2026
Privacy · 5 min readAI Memory Is Useful. It's Also a Privacy Question.
Persistent memory makes assistants dramatically better and quietly builds the most detailed profile anyone holds of you.
14 July 2026
Opinion · 3 min readWhy Consumers Shouldn't Have to Choose Between GPT and Claude
Picking a subscription is picking a model for every question you will ask for the next year. That is a strange way to buy intelligence.
7 July 2026
AI News · 3 min readThe Most Interesting Thing Google Announced This Week
It was not the model. It was the price, the context length, and where the model is being placed by default.
30 June 2026
Privacy · 4 min readAI Is Becoming a Place People Think Out Loud
Chat logs are turning into the most candid record of what people are worried about. Almost nobody treats them that way.