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Claude Mythos: Inside Anthropic’s Most Controversial Model Release
Anthropic built Claude Mythos, then concluded much of it could not ship publicly. What the restricted release says about frontier-model risk in 2026.
ChatGPT in a Robot: What Embodied AI Actually Risks
When a language model gets a body, its mistakes stop being pixels. Inside the embodied-AI debate that 2026's viral demos reopened.
Grok 4.6: How xAI Caught Up and What the Release Says About the LLM Race
xAI's Grok 4.6 arrived late, leaned on Colossus-scale compute, and reset expectations for the model-release cycle. A closer look.
Ray-Ban Display Glasses: Meta’s Answer to the Post-Smartphone Question
Meta put a screen, a camera, and an always-on AI assistant on your face. Six months of real-world use says a lot about what comes after the phone.
Apple's on-device AI bet: rethinking the data center model
A popular thesis argues that Apple's on-device AI strategy makes cloud AI data centers obsolete. A critical look at what local inference actually does well, where cloud inference still wins, and why the future is almost certainly hybrid.
ChatGPT 5.2 vs Gemini 3 Pro: a head-to-head LLM test
ChatGPT 5.2 and Gemini 3 Pro are the two most-used frontier chatbots of 2026. A structured head-to-head across coding, writing, research, and agents shows where each one wins.
GPT-5.6 review: what OpenAI's newest flagship model changes
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 lands roughly eleven months after GPT-5: what changed, what reviewers found, what it costs, and what the compressed release cadence says about frontier AI in 2026.
Something weird is happening to smartphones in 2026
Smartphone shipments have stopped telling the story of the market. A look at the slowing upgrade cycle, AI features as the new differentiator, and why 2026 feels strange for phones.
Computational Photography in 2026: Why Your Phone's Camera 'Lies'
Smartphone photos are computed reconstructions, not records of light. Inside multi-frame stacking, semantic segmentation and AI editing, and the fight to define what a real photograph means.
Foldable Phones in 2026: The Maturity Problem
Seven years after the first commercial foldables, the hardware arguments are settled and the economic ones remain: hinges, creases, durability, price, tri-folds, and the market-share reality of a mature niche.
Right to Repair in 2026: The Fight Over Who Can Fix Your Phone
How right to repair moved from enthusiast grievance to statute: US state laws, EU ecodesign rules, parts pairing, repairability scores, and the e-waste math behind the fight over who can fix your phone.
The AI Bubble in 2026: What the Infrastructure Binge Actually Costs
Hyperscalers are spending hundreds of billions a year on AI data centers. Inside the capex numbers, the circular financing debate, and what a real break would look like.
The best devices at MWC 2026: what mobile tech did next
From tri-fold prototypes to silicon-carbon batteries and on-device AI: what the best devices at MWC 2026 reveal about the phones of 2027.
The best smartphone processors of 2026: inside the silicon race
Snapdragon, Apple, Dimensity and Tensor compared: NPU TOPS, process nodes, and why sustained efficiency beats benchmark peaks in 2026.
ChatGPT vs. Claude in 2026: how to choose an LLM for real work
ChatGPT and Claude both clear the bar for professional work in 2026, which makes the choice harder, not easier. A task-by-task breakdown of where each assistant pulls ahead, from coding and long documents to pricing, context, and…
The most overhyped and underhyped new AI models of 2026
Not every capable 2026 AI model got the coverage it deserved, and not every hyped release earned it. How attention and capability diverged across the 2026 model release season, and how to judge a launch past its launch video.
Gemini vs Claude vs ChatGPT: What a Year of Head-to-Head Testing Actually Shows
A year of sustained head-to-head testing across Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT shows where each assistant genuinely wins — long context and research ingestion for Gemini, code and careful prose for Claude, breadth and polish for ChatGPT — and…
iPhone 17 Pro: Why Apple Forged a Phone Out of a Single Block of Aluminum
Apple's iPhone 17 Pro ditches the titanium frame for a unibody enclosure machined from a single block of aerospace-grade aluminum, wrapped around a graphene-and-vapor-chamber thermal system and the A19 Pro chip. N43 and Hermes examine what…
Is Anthropic Actually Winning the AI Race? The Case For and Against
The claim that Anthropic is winning the AI race gets a balanced hearing: real evidence in coding benchmarks, enterprise contracts, and developer momentum for Claude, weighed against OpenAI's consumer scale, Google's distribution and…
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2: Inside Qualcomm's Push to Put Real AI on Your Phone
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 claims roughly 20 percent more CPU and GPU performance and a qualitatively larger on-device AI envelope, built on second-generation Oryon CPU cores and a Hexagon NPU designed to run large language models…
AI Agents at Work: What Autonomous AI Actually Does in 2026
Beyond chatbots: how AI agents plan, call tools, and ship real work in 2026 — where they succeed, where they fail, and why the human in the loop is still the load-bearing part.
Google Pixel 11 Hands-On: What Google's 2026 Flagship Says About Phones
The Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro and Pixel 11 Pro Fold ship as Google's most AI-first phones yet. What the 2026 Pixel generation reveals about Tensor G6, foldables, and where every flagship is heading.
Large Language Models Explained: Inside the 2026 LLM Boom
Tokens, attention, next-token prediction: how large language models actually work, and why the 2026 wave of reasoning models, million-token contexts, and distillation builds on the same fundamentals.
The Smartphone System on a Chip: How Mobile Chips Keep Getting Faster
A single slab of silicon now runs the CPU, GPU, NPU, modem and camera pipeline in every flagship phone. Inside the 2026 system-on-chip generation and the physics that made it possible.
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