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How Did My Predictions for 2026 Hold Up?
Last December I shared my forecasts for 2026 in a NewMR presentation, and in January I added a…
10 October 2026
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The Pew Study Is Interesting, But It Does Not Settle Whether Synthetic Data Works
Pew’s new study of synthetic respondents is one of the strongest public tests yet, but it should not…
2 October 2026
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The other existential risk for market research
Market research is debating whether AI will replace researchers, research agencies, panels, and much of the work people…
12 September 2026
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When several AI services fail at once: the continuity question for insights teams
Several leading AI services were disrupted within the same few hours on Thursday. OpenAI reported around two hours…
4 September 2026
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What Is So Worrying About Recursive Self-Improvement?
Recursive self-improvement, or RSI, sounds like science fiction. RSI is when AI improves itself, then the improved AI…
5 August 2026
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AI Update – 3 August 2026
Here are three big themes from last week';s AI news. AI moves from conversation to action: three developments…
3 August 2026
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Open-weight AI: four ways to use it and why access matters
Open-weight AI is often discussed as though releasing the model automatically makes AI accessible. In practice, access depends…
1 August 2026
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When the model vanishes overnight: the lessons from the Fable ban and its implications for your AI supply line
Anthropic's two most capable models disappeared for everyone in a single evening. For research teams now building on…
20 June 2026
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Myth Number 2: MIT Showed That 95% of AI Pilots Fail
Perhaps the most commonly quoted statistics about AI projects is that 95% of them fail, according to MIT.…
31 May 2026
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AI Myth Number 1: AI Cannot Produce Anything New
AI only repeats what it was taught. That is a comforting line that appears whenever AI comes up…
25 May 2026