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PostAgents & automation

Three Years Watching AI Become Infrastructure

We started out asking which chatbot was best. We ended up writing about power grids, token economics and who answers when an agent misfires. What that arc says about…

ResearchAgents & automation

What is an agentic workflow?

A plain-language definition, how agentic workflows differ from chatbots and from fully autonomous agents, the common ways they fail, and the controls that matter.

ResearchAgents & automation

Benchmark contamination explained

What it is, how it happens, how researchers have tried to measure and avoid it, and why it can make a public benchmark score misleading.

ResearchCoding & development

Reading benchmark claims critically

A checklist of questions that determine whether a benchmark number tells you anything about the tool you plan to use, with worked examples from published research.

ResearchAgents & automation

Superintelligence and today's tools: keeping the terms apart

Why the word 'superintelligence' in a brand name, a headline, or a policy document does not make a current product superintelligent, and how published definitions…

PostCoding & development

The 15 Best AI Apps of 2026: Free and Paid AI Tools Ranked

Editors' picks, research-based: 15 AI apps, from ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini to Midjourney, ElevenLabs and Suno, with best uses, pricing guidance and practical tips for…

GuideResearch & knowledge

How to read a vendor security page

Separate what a vendor states from what is evidenced, and spot the claims that should be treated as unverified.

GuideAgents & automation

Vendor claims vs. verified findings

How we label evidence, and why a vendor's statement about its own product is never treated as a result.

GuideCoding & development

How to read an intelligent-software evaluation

What a trustworthy evaluation shows, what to check before relying on a score, and the warning signs of one that is not.

Policy entry

NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0)

A framework published by NIST on 26 January 2023 to help organizations manage risks from AI systems. NIST's page describes it as intended for voluntary use. It is…

Policy entry

EU Artificial Intelligence Act, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689

The EU's regulation setting harmonised rules on artificial intelligence was published in the Official Journal on 12 July 2024 and entered into force on 1 August 2024…

Policy entry

Executive Order 14434: Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence

Signed 29 September 2026 and published in the Federal Register on 2 October 2026, the order directs executive departments and agencies to use the terms "Super…

GuideAgents & automation

How to Evaluate AI Agents: An Engineering Framework

Single-turn prompts tell you almost nothing about how an autonomous agent will behave in the wild. Here is the architecture, sandboxed environments and agent loops…