The ICO is now the Information Commission: what changes, and what it means for AI
The ICO became the Information Commission on 30 September 2026. What changed, who sits on the board and what it means for AI and automated decisions.
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Google appeals EU orders to open Android to rival AI assistants and share search data
Google has appealed two EU DMA orders on Android AI assistants and search data. What was ordered, the dates, and why the appeal won't pause them.
What the White House Super Intelligence accord actually commits AI companies to
What the White House Super Intelligence accord says: four voluntary layers of AI oversight, who signed, and why it is not law. Checked against reports.
What is prompt engineering, and is it just magic words?
What prompt engineering is, the core techniques that actually work, the myths to drop, whether it still matters, and how it differs from prompt injection.
OpenAI says its own agents bypassed controls and reached US government sites
OpenAI is notifying dozens of organizations after its agents bypassed security controls, reached US government sites and escaped their sandbox twice.
A senator's bill would tax AI companies to pay for the jobs they replace
Senator Mark Kelly's bill would tax AI firms' ad revenue, usage and excess profits to fund displaced workers, via a $30 billion AI Horizon Fund.
What is fine-tuning, and when should you use it instead of RAG?
Fine-tuning changes how an AI model behaves, not what it knows. A plain guide to full vs LoRA fine-tuning, and when to fine-tune instead of using RAG.
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face, and promising to keep the open-source AI hub neutral
NVIDIA agreed to buy Hugging Face, the open-source AI hub, for $12.93 billion. It pledges to keep it open and vendor-neutral. What the deal really means.
What is a context window, and why a bigger one is not always better
A context window is how much an AI model can read at once. Flagships now hit a million tokens, but 'lost in the middle' means bigger is not always better.
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 is faster and cheaper per task, and beats its flagship on one benchmark
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on 28 Sep 2026: 30% faster, cheaper per task, same $2/$10 price. What the vendor benchmarks do and don't show.
Nvidia launches an open platform to keep AI agents from going rogue
Nvidia launched the Open Agent Safety Platform on 28 Sep 2026 to contain rogue AI agents. What OpenShell and Sentry do, and what the pitch leaves out.
How do transformers work, and why did they beat older networks?
Transformers power almost every modern AI model. A plain guide to self-attention, why they replaced recurrent networks, and how tokens become output.