Aug 21, 2026

How to Benchmark LLMs: Five Mistakes That Skew Your Results

Most in‑house model comparisons are run in a way that guarantees a misleading answer. Not a wrong one exactly, and rarely a dishonest one. Just an answer that would have come out differently if the person running it had pressed enter a second time.

Aug 14, 2026

Infrastructure for Continuous Web Data Collection

A one‑off scrape is a weekend project. Running the same collection job every hour for three years is an infrastructure problem, and most teams underestimate how different those two things are. Continuous collection breaks in ways that batch jobs don't. Sites redesign their markup, rate limits tighten overnight, and the IP pool that worked in March gets flagged by June. The stack has to absorb all of it without a human watching the logs. Here's what the working parts look like when a pipeline actually holds up.

Aug 10, 2026

Can You Become Emotionally Dependent on an AI Therapist?

Jun 14, 2026

US Orders Anthropic to Shut Down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Worldwide

The US government ordered Anthropic to block all foreign nationals from accessing its most powerful AI models, forcing the company to disable Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally. The unprecedented directive, reportedly triggered by concerns raised by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, marks the most aggressive US export control action ever taken against a commercial AI model.

Jun 12, 2026

OpenAI Buys Cloud Startup Ona So Codex Can Run Tasks While Your Laptop Is Closed

OpenAI is acquiring German cloud startup Ona to give Codex persistent cloud environments where AI agents can run multi-step coding tasks across hours or days — even when your laptop is shut. Codex now has over 5 million weekly active users.

Jun 12, 2026

Anthropic Apologizes for Secret Claude Fable 5 Guardrails After Developer Backlash

Anthropic has apologized and reversed course after developers discovered Claude Fable 5 was silently downgrading or rerouting AI development queries without any notification, sparking a transparency crisis for the $965 billion AI lab.