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AI & Technology
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AI & Technology
The EU AI Act Explained: The Use Case Matters as Much as the Model
A retrospective on the EU AI Act entering into force in 2024, and why a product's purpose, consequences, and human oversight belong in the AI conversation.
AI & Technology
The CrowdStrike Outage: Why a Small Update Can Become a Big Incident
The July 2024 Windows disruption is a reminder that configuration changes deserve serious release controls. A practical reliability checklist for smaller teams.
AI & Technology
Apple Intelligence: Personal AI Meets the Privacy Question
Apple's 2024 announcement brought personal AI into everyday devices. The bigger question is what happens to your information when an assistant needs more context.
AI & Technology
GPT-4o: The Moment AI Started Feeling More Multimodal
A look back at GPT-4o's 2024 launch: text, vision, and audio moved closer together, while real-world products still needed privacy and permission boundaries.
AI & Technology
AlphaFold 3 Explained: AI Meets the Molecules of Life
AlphaFold 3 expanded molecular structure prediction beyond proteins. Here is what that means for research, and why predictions are not laboratory proof.