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When the model vanishes overnight: the lessons from the Fable ban and its implications for your AI supply line AI 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 Myth Number 2: MIT Showed That 95% of AI Pilots Fail AI 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 AI Myth Number 1: AI Cannot Produce Anything New AI 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 Calling All Runners: Take Part in Our Research Race Calling All Runners: Take Part in Our Research We are looking for regular runners based in the UK to take part in a research project about… 15 April 2026 Conference report: CSDI 2026 workshop overview Market Research Conference report: CSDI 2026 workshop overview Here is my report on the International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation, University of Vienna, 23–25… 28 March 2026 Why do clocks go clockwise? A sundial reminder about standards Uncategorized Why do clocks go clockwise? A sundial reminder about standards Have you ever wondered why clockwise is the direction it is? Who decided and why? That is part… 31 January 2026 Chinese AI Models Are Reshaping the Global Landscape – What Does This Mean for Market Research? AI Chinese AI Models Are Reshaping the Global Landscape – What Does This Mean for Market Research? I've been tracking the rise of Chinese AI systems with growing interest over the past year, and I… 17 January 2026 The State of Research and Insights AI The State of Research and Insights NewMR is currently conducting the sixth wave of our State of Research and Insight study. We have conducted… 25 November 2025 How AI Understands Language: Visualizing Meaning with Sentence Embeddings AI How AI Understands Language: Visualizing Meaning with Sentence Embeddings Have you ever wondered how an AI system, like a search engine or a chatbot, understands that the… 4 November 2025 Synthetic Data is a Reality, But Are You Asking the Right Questions? AI Synthetic Data is a Reality, But Are You Asking the Right Questions? At most conferences and events, we are seeing a growing number of examples of Synthetic Data, in its… 16 October 2025