AI Model Comparisons: 5 Myths, From the Benchmark OpenAI Retired to the $0.08 Model That Scores 21
On 23 February 2026, OpenAI explained why it had stopped reporting scores on the coding benchmark everyone quoted. Five months later it…
OpenAI Ships EU Text Watermarking, but Only Approved Researchers Get the Detector
OpenAI said on 27 October 2026 it will start watermarking AI-generated text in the EU. The detector goes to approved researchers and expert…
CrossDiT, Explained: How Kandinsky 6.0 Generates Video and 44 kHz Audio in One Pass, and Where It Breaks
Kandinsky Lab shipped a 29B audio-video model under MIT on 6 October 2026, weights and code included. The clips it produces are five seconds long.
IBM Defense Model in Practice: What the Model Card Says, and What the Pricing Page Does Not
Janes says the model cuts research time “up to 85%”, with no methodology, baseline, dataset or independent validation attached.…
Setting up a self-hosted ComfyUI image pipeline: a CTO’s guide to licences, GPU costs and node risk
What exactly do you own when you self-host ComfyUI? The core is GPL-3.0, and that licence covers the software and almost nothing else in your…
FrontierMath Erdős by the Numbers: 68 Open Problems, 2 Solved, 98% on the Benchmark Next Door
Epoch AI calls FrontierMath Tier 4 “approaching saturation” for GPT-6 Astra at 98%. The same model, handed 68 problems nobody had…
AI This Week: The Measurement Gap, From 130 Real Agent Vendors to a 58% Sycophancy Score Nobody Checks
About 130 vendors survive once you strip workflow automation out of the “AI agent” market, and the same filter drops a 58%…
Workflow Bots: Myth vs Reality, Only 130 Real Agent Vendors and 58% That Drops to 35%
Gartner counts roughly 130 genuinely agentic vendors out of the thousands claiming it. The same firm expects 33% of enterprise software to…
The First Appellate AI Copyright Win Was Not About Generative AI, and That Is Exactly Why It Matters
On September 29, 2026 a unanimous Third Circuit panel rejected fair use for AI training. The system at the centre of it generated nothing: it…
Nobody Taught Models to Absorb Criticism Because Nobody Measures It: SycEval Says 58%, Defensiveness Says Nothing
We can score a model’s over-agreement to three decimal places and have no public number for a model refusing to listen. That asymmetry…
