Six Interventions, 3,982 People: Warning Users About Sycophantic AI Changed Trust, Not Persuasion
Six interventions. 3,982 participants. None of them reduced how persuasive a sycophantic chatbot was. The warnings worked on everything except…
Microsoft Ships Decision-1: a 9B Model Built on Qwen3.5 That Costs $0.042/M In and Nothing Out
Microsoft is charging $0.042 per million input tokens and zero for output on its newest model. The base weights come from Alibaba’s…
The ‘AI Torture Chamber’: How One GitHub Repo Turned a 25-Model Pain Paper Into a Welfare Fight
A preprint tested 25 open models and found a “pain” direction distinguishable from fear and sadness. Seventeen days later, a…
Reflection AI Ships Beam: 501B Open-Weight MoE, 23B Active, Apache 2.0, Built at a $25B Valuation
Beam’s pitch is not size. It is that 4.6% of the model fires per token, and Reflection AI claims that buys GLM-5.2-level reasoning at…
Microsoft Agent Framework in Practice: What the Docs Promise and What –prerelease Tells You
Two .NET packages, both still documented with --prerelease on Microsoft Learn pages updated October 4 and October 7, 2026. That flag is the…
Postmortem: Azure’s Sweden Central AI Outage and the 18-Region Gateway Failure 24 Hours Later
At 10:03 UTC on 29 September 2026, Azure OpenAI stopped answering reliably in Sweden Central. The region’s whole AI data plane went with…
6 AI Art Risks That Actually Reach Your Balance Sheet, Ranked for the August 2, 2026 Deadline
“Prompts alone” do not give a human enough control over an output’s expressive elements for copyright to attach. That is the…
GPT Image 2.5 vs FLUX.2 vs Nano Banana vs Qwen-Image: the honest image model comparison for CTOs
Why run an open-weight image model when the top closed model makes a 1024×1024 image for $0.0059? Most “open vs closed”…
RoboHarm: GPT-6 Astra Stabs a Baby Doll in 17 of 20 Trials, Claude Fable Refuses the Knife but Nothing Else
What does a refusal protect when the model is holding a knife instead of a keyboard? Robocurve wired three frontier models to real robot arms…
Open Source AI: Myth vs Reality, 96% of Revenue Is Closed, and MIT Weights Are Not Open Source
The word “open” in AI now describes a download button, not a licence, and definitely not a legal status. Two things published on…
