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Understanding Neural Networks Through the People Who Built Them

The Guardian's 'Black Box' podcast, hosted by Michael Safi, examines AI's history and risks, starting with an episode on neural network pioneer Geoffrey Hinton.

AI AgentsAugust 23, 2026

How AI Agents Learned to Reason, Act and Observe

ReAct, introduced in October 2022, defined the reason-act-observe agent loop that underlies most modern AI agents

Developer ToolsAugust 15, 2026

How to Install OpenAI's Codex CLI on Any OS

Codex CLI installs via curl on macOS/Linux or a PowerShell command on Windows, with Homebrew as an alternative Mac option.

AI AgentsAugust 14, 2026

The "Agent Host" Protocol: A Simple Guide to Microsoft's New Specification for Hosting AI Agents

The Agent Host Protocol (AHP) is an open specification published by Microsoft to standardize how AI agents are hosted, started, and communicated with across multiple applications at once.

LLMsAugust 10, 2026

OpenAI removes chat limits for free ChatGPT users

OpenAI is removing text-chat rate limits for Free and Go tier ChatGPT users starting the week of August 10, ending the roughly 10-messages-per-5-hours cap.

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LLMsAugust 4, 2026

Chat vs. Agent: How to Choose the Right AI Mode Today

Chat and agent modes are now distinct products across ChatGPT and Claude, not just one general-purpose assistant.

AI AgentsAugust 3, 2026

What Is an AI Agent, and How Is It Different From a Chatbot?

AI agents are defined by autonomy: they plan, reason, and take action to resolve a problem, while chatbots mainly respond to questions using scripted or retrieved answers.

Voice Cloning AIAugust 3, 2026

AI Voice Cloning: The New Weapon in the Financial Fraud Arsenal

Americans lost more than $893 million in 2025 to AI-related scams including voice cloning, per the FBI, while Al Jazeera Net documented a $35 million transfer from an Arab bank in 2020 triggered by a cloned-voice phone call.

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AI SafetyAugust 3, 2026

AI Guardrails: How Companies Try to Keep Chatbots From Going Off Script

Guardrails are layered systems, not just instructions, combining techniques like retrieval-augmented generation, source citation, and evaluation pipelines to keep chatbots on topic and factually grounded.

Speech RecognitionJuly 30, 2026

Arabic Dialects Challenge AI: Why Voice Assistants Struggle to Understand Gulf, Egyptian and Levantine Speech Like They Do English

Arabic speech recognition systems are trained primarily on Standard Arabic, making Gulf, Egyptian and Levantine dialects far more prone to errors despite being the language of actual daily communication.

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Artificial IntelligenceJuly 28, 2026

The Complete WAKIB Glossary: How to Speak AI Without Sounding Like a Beginner

A prompt is what a user types to an AI model, and its precision and detail directly determine the quality of the response, contrary to the belief that it is just a random, interchangeable question.

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SLMsJuly 28, 2026

You've Probably Never Heard of Them: How "Small Language Models" (SLMs) Are Set to Change the Rules on Your Phone

Small Language Models (SLMs) typically have anywhere from a few million to about 7 billion parameters and run locally on phones thanks to quantization and Neural Processing Units (NPUs), without needing an internet connection.

LearnJuly 28, 2026

What Is a Vector Database, and Why Do AI Applications Need One?

Vector databases store data as numerical "embeddings" and use similarity search to find related information by meaning, something traditional exact-match databases cannot do well, according to industry guides.

LearnJuly 27, 2026

Token Economics: How Companies Calculate the Real Cost of Running AI Apps and Avoid Scaling Cost Shocks

The basic unit of cost: Tokens are not just words but the 'financial fuel' of generative applications, and ignoring the gap between Input price and Output price is the leading cause of budget shocks.

LearnJuly 27, 2026

No Programmer, No Code: How to Build a Complete App Just by "Chatting"

Conversational programming (Vibe Coding) is a radical shift that lets anyone build complete applications using clear language, without writing code commands or hiring development teams.

LLMsJuly 26, 2026

Google Ships Three New Gemini Flash Models While Its Flagship 3.5 Pro Stays in the Lab

Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, while Gemini 3.5 Pro remains restricted to partner testing with no firm ship date.

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AI InfrastructureJuly 22, 2026

Morgan Stanley Turns AI Data Centers Into Wall Street's Newest Bond Machine

Morgan Stanley's capital-markets fees rose to $2.3 billion in H1, up from $1.4 billion a year earlier, pushing it past Goldman Sachs into second place behind JPMorgan.

RoboticsJuly 21, 2026

China's Companion Robot Boom Hits a Human Problem, Not a Technical One

Smart robot control units ('cores') now cost only a few dozen RMB to produce in Shenzhen, per Koumeng Technology founder Li Yulin, showing how commodified the underlying AI hardware has become.

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