What is the EU AI Act? A plain-English guide to the world's first comprehensive AI law Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 is the EU's AI Act. Here's what it bans, what it requires, what it costs to violate, and when each provision applies.
What is RAG? A plain-English explainer for people who use AI but never built one RAG, or retrieval-augmented generation, is the technique behind 'AI that can read your documents.' Here's what it actually does, what it does not fix, and when you actually need it.
Open-Weights Wave: Qwen 3.6, Granite 4.1, HiDream-O1, and the Capability Floor in April-May 2026 Qwen 3.6 (27B dense, 35B-A3B MoE), IBM Granite 4.1 (3B/8B/30B), HiDream-O1 image gen, and Hugging Face ml-intern all shipped in April-May 2026 — all permissively licensed. Inside: benchmarks, hardware, deployment patterns.
Gemini Intelligence on Android: Multi-Step Agents, Vibe Widgets, and the iOS Crossover Gemini Intelligence brings multi-step app automation, AI dictation, and vibe-coded widgets to Samsung Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10 this summer. Inside: what it does, how it compares to iOS, and what readers can do today.
Microsoft Agent 365 GA: AI Agent Governance Becomes a Procurable Product Microsoft Agent 365 reached general availability on May 1 at $15 per user per month, packaging identity, governance, and security for enterprise AI agents. Here is what it actually does, how it compares, and what readers can do today.
DeepSeek V4 on Huawei Ascend: Open Weights, MoE at Trillion Scale, and the Self-Hosting Path DeepSeek V4 ships under MIT license in two MoE sizes (1.6T Pro and 284B Flash) with 1M-token context. Huawei's Ascend 950 SuperNode handles inference. Here is what readers can do with it — and what comes next.
Gemini 3.1 Pro: 2M Tokens, Native Multimodal, and the Long-Context Frontier Gemini 3.1 Pro ships with a 2-million-token context window and native multimodal reasoning across text, image, audio, and video. Here is how the architecture, pricing, and practical workflows actually shape up — and what readers can do with it today.